Migraine and Chocolate

I finished the last of my Xmas sweets yesterday. I try and live a healthy and balanced life (not reflected in my blood pressure) but ate all the sweets I was given for Xmas. I often attribute the headaches I get to sugar intake. I try not to eat too much ordinarily but last night and this morning I had an almost debilitating headache. It's not just a pain in the head that is cured by a couple of paracetamols, it's something more overriding. There's a numbness of thought and dislocation of being.

I sat on my sofa suffering as though it was my lot in life to bear the brunt of sugar withdrawal. Then I saw sense and realised it might simply be dehydration - possibly induced by the diuretic qualities of chocolate. Therefore I drank several glasses of water. Lo and behold I felt better after about half an hour.

I met a friend for coffee and we then had a couple of pints of lager afterwards. After initially feeling sleepy when I got in I then started to feel a headache and a feeling of being washed out. I think it's a mild form of migraine and I don't experience the paralysis that besets other people but it is frustrating. I've been drinking water and have taken a few Ibuprofen to stem the feeling. I was playing guitar and I felt totally detached from the person making the music. I hope my head feel clearer by the time I go to bed because there's little worse than being kept awake by it and then being in a daze the following day.

Maybe I shouldn't have eaten all my Xmas sweets in such a short space of time.