Headache
Last night, I went to an after-hours forward planning meeting at work. I had a sinus headache when I went in that got worse as the evening went along. This is not uncommon: one of the side-effects of CPAP treatment is the occasional night where you throat and nasal passages are…well, insufficiently humidified. Then irritated. Then inflamed. And the moment my sinuses inflame, they tend to press down on the nerves on my already irritatingly-sensitive teeth. Instant headache. Pain shooting through the nerves right underneath my eye. Until I learned the ’cause of it – eventually pointed out by my dentist, after two straight years where I’d come in during heyfever season convinced I needed a root canal – I would spend some quality time in bed, wishing for death. I would avoid air-conditioning, which tended to trigger things. I would loathe the very world around me. After I learned the cause, I just drank warm cups of water to
