Thursday, January 13, 2011

Explode, Implode or Erupt?

Explode:
1). to cause to explode or burst noisily
2). to burst violently as a result of pressure from within 
3). to suddenly break apart in a violent way with parts flying outward
4). to burst forth with sudden violence or noise from internal energy
Implode:
1). to burst inward
2), to collapse inward in a very sudden and violent way 
3). to collapse inward as if from external pressure
4). to break down or fall apart from within

Erupt:
1).to burst from limits or restraint
2).to force out or release suddenly and often violently something (as lava or steam) that is pent up 
3).to become active or violent especially suddenly : break forth
4).to force out or release usually suddenly and violently

I was laying in bed most of today wondering how I could explain to the doctors what it actually feels like when my face migraines and headaches hit me. What words could I use so they could  KNOW how it feels from my point of view? These three words kept coming up over and over again... Implode, erupt and explode. 
Pretty tough words, I think, but how else do you explain what it feels like to have someone shove a foot long ice pick through your tooth and up into your nose and up through the top of your head? That's explosive don't ya think?  
How about when your head feels like its stuck in a vice and someone just keeps on cranking that lever tighter and tighter and you can't stop it and it feels like your head will implode any minute and it feels like your whole head will cave in on itself? How else do you explain that but to say it feels like it will implode?
And what about the days that you have so much pressure in your head that you want to drill a hole, for real, right into the top of your head and release that pressure and make your head erupt because you just can't take it anymore. Or stab an ice pick into your sinuses because to erupt that massive pressure bubble in your head has GOT to feel so much better than you feel right now! 
To be able to do anything to relieve that burning, stabbing, searing pain in your face and head and get any sort of relief from that is like a miracle to me and no one seems to understand that. How do you explain that to people and then the next words out of their mouth are "But you look good".... What the fuck?? Why do I bother......
And they wonder why the suicide rate for this is so dam high.


2 comments:

  1. i understand pain. completely. i'm so glad my meds work for me. living like that for years, the way you described, from the time i was 12 till i was 34 almost made me insane as well as severely self-medicated. i wish like hell there was something i could do to help your pain. maybe understanding it helps a little, tho it never did for me.

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  2. But it helps to know that you know what it's like! So if I rip off my eyelids, at least YOU would understand why I did it when you come to see me in the Psych ward! lol
    A body can only take so much and if you don't KNOW the pain I live with, you could never understand it.....

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