ODDLY ENOUGH I can’t sleep on my back without some X-TREEM pillow contortioning bc, of all things, substantial weight loss has made my tailbone particularly pronounced, and I feel pressure on it when lying on my back and WTF BUTT
so I take back any desires I might have had to have a tail, that would piss me off I think
I assume you would have to put pants around your ankles, pull them up to your knees or butt, whichever is easier, and THEN thread the needle of fitting that tail through the tail hole of your pants. It would absolutely be a pain in the ass.
See, when I thought about it, actual tail-havers who are also pant-wearers would be practiced enough at it to get gud at using a tail sleeve, not a pain
and if it IS a pain, they wear kilts
Decidedly Orthogonal
KILT KILT KILT KILT!
Agemegos
Put a button fly above the tail, instead of or in addition to a fly in front.
Agemegos
Then you pull your trousers up with the opening at the back and button the waistband above your tail, with it sticking out through the opening at the bottom of the fly.
I feel like it depends on the kind of tail. If it’s a cat tail then the benefits are pretty good. What if you could get cat flexibility to go with a cat tail?
Consider a sleep test. Apnea doesn’t get better with age. A disturbed sleep
Is a form of torture.
StClair
Seconded. Magic nose machine changed my life.
Bicycle Bill
Thirded. I use one too, even for those occasions when I lie down for a short nap.
Now, falling asleep in the La-Z-Boy in front of the TV? That’s an entirely different ball of wax.
Gash
Eh, that’ll be eternally put off since i can just sleep on my side without issues.
I can’t fall asleep on my back in the first place, so sleeping is one area I don’t expect I’d have issues with a tail
Now if I consider how often I knock things over with my hands and feet (not often but more than I’d like), and how often dogs knock things over with their tail (constantly), then I start to see an issue
I introduced my husband to the wonders of Midol for headaches back when we were dating. Never underestimate the magical healing powers of acetaminophen and caffeine. Ibuprofen is my achey-arthritis-joints-friend.
…Unless the headaches are caused by something else, like, say, low B12 that comes up normal on labwork.
Could also be sinus related, especially since having a raised head seems to help. A decongestant can help then. Steam can also help too.
Women in my family get hormonal migraines, and the acetaminophen, ibuprofen and caffeine mixture is the only thing that works on them.
I get pretty bad migraines. I’d heard of people using Midol to treat them, but I ended up running across Excedrin. It’s a stack of 250mg acetaminophen, 250mg ibuprofen (advil) and 65mg caffeine. It’s very effective, but makes me think my liver is going to explode if I use it too often.
But now that I look it up, Maybe Midol’s even more terrifying. 500mg of acetaminophen, 60mg caffeine, and something to put you to sleep.
Has that happened to you? how does that happen? and how else do you test for B12 levels other than with a blood test?
Masumi
Eat a liver and see if that improves anything :V
(no seriously, last time I had a (minor) depressive episode, I ate an entire fried pig liver and got WAY better)
How’d it taste? I can’t decide if fried pig liver sounds great or awful.
Sombrero
Let’s say is an acquired taste.
Ryek Hvek
There’s always Liverwurst – no frying required.
Agemegos
I’ve eaten pigs’, calves’, geese’s, chickens’, and ostrich’s livers. Ostrich was best — tasted a bit like hazelnuts for some reason.
Liver tastes fine if it’s fresh, but gets bitter if it isn’t cooked promptly. The texture is a bit odd if you’re used to meat having fibres, but not unpleasant. Nevertheless the easiest way to like it is as a pâte or in sausages.
A little bit of pork-liver pâte is the secret ingredient in my ragù alla Bolognese.
Joyce needs to invest in one of those shaped memory pillows, they make sleeping much easier, even when I have a migraine. A bonus as well, if you want to sleep on your side instead of your back it can be adjusted for that.
You can find generic memory foam pillows from really any store that sells pillows, like Macy’s or something. Just be careful since some can have a bit of a smell to them and some are thicker than others.
I use them since I mainly sleep on my side, I tend to prefer them.
I find it’s generally better for the back itself to do that. Also if it hurts for any reason: pillow under the knee. Though it’s been a while since I’ve had to do that.
bugs: people sleep on their back? that’s scary. what if i want to walk around all over them and eat their dead skin and skin mites, now i have to look out for that wet hole they have
Same. I always seem to get them on bright sunny days where I have to go to brightly lit rooms like when I was in school. Fucking. torture. Sitting there and feeling painful and nauseous until hours later you feel the sweet bursts of warmth that mean your headache is FINALLY breaking up.
Kyrik Michalowski
I really should invest in one of those sleeping masks that covers your eyes. If nothing else it’ll help with the light at least.
I like that Joyce is wearing the pajamas from that cartoon show she likes but not the shirt or hat. I gives the comic strong sense of continuity and makes Joyce seem like a real person, as it suggests that after the initial obsession that comes with a new found fandom, she has calmed down and no longer has to wear all the merch as a set, but still has the stuff lying around.
I sleep with a body pillow shaped like an inverted U. it is called a pregnancy pillow because apparently the time adults are socially allowed to be cozy and comfy is when they are literally growing another human.
As a person who has been pregnant but has chronic pain always, I think everyone should buy a pregnancy pillow if it would help them.
Eat the foods you crave when it seems wise as well! It irritates me that the only time most people think you should listen to cravings is when you’re pregnant.
I appreciate the realistic detail of the pajama pants assuming their natural wedgie state. The people who make PJ pants have to be using a special weave designed to shove the middle third of the fabric directly into the wearer’s asscrack at the first sign of motion, right? Is that just me?
Sometimes, the human body is forced to draw a fine ass. I can’t draw to save my life, but several times when I’ve been idly doodling, I’ve drawn the most absolutely perfect ass or boobs that could be drawn in that moment. It’s like a hard-coded signal in our DNA.
135 thoughts on “Headache”
Ana Chronistic
hey it me
ODDLY ENOUGH I can’t sleep on my back without some X-TREEM pillow contortioning bc, of all things, substantial weight loss has made my tailbone particularly pronounced, and I feel pressure on it when lying on my back and WTF BUTT
so I take back any desires I might have had to have a tail, that would piss me off I think
True Survivor
Not to mention a tail would make it really hard to put on pants.
The Wellerman
But think of the benefits!!! ?
mrnoidea
Nah, you just need pants with a second fly in the back.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Why would it be any harder than shoving arms/hands through sleeves or feet/legs through pants?
Yotomoe
I assume you would have to put pants around your ankles, pull them up to your knees or butt, whichever is easier, and THEN thread the needle of fitting that tail through the tail hole of your pants. It would absolutely be a pain in the ass.
The Wellerman
Why not just wrap it around your waist like Saiyans do? ?
Yotomoe
Unironically one of the reasons why Toriyama got rid of Goku’s tail is that he said he couldn’t figure out how Goku would put on pants.
Ana Chronistic
See, when I thought about it, actual tail-havers who are also pant-wearers would be practiced enough at it to get gud at using a tail sleeve, not a pain
and if it IS a pain, they wear kilts
Decidedly Orthogonal
KILT KILT KILT KILT!
Agemegos
Put a button fly above the tail, instead of or in addition to a fly in front.
Agemegos
Then you pull your trousers up with the opening at the back and button the waistband above your tail, with it sticking out through the opening at the bottom of the fly.
Kazuma Taichi
Well that can be solved with a #BanPants
King Daniel
Reject pants, return to skirt
Robbie
My puppy (middle aged puppy) gets tense tail muscles and requires butt scritches.
fridge_logic
I feel like it depends on the kind of tail. If it’s a cat tail then the benefits are pretty good. What if you could get cat flexibility to go with a cat tail?
Ana Chronistic
What would it do besides get caught under rocking chairs
(more accurately, in closing doors)
Shadow Dreamer
I dunno, I could use the enhanced sense of balance in my day to day life!
Gash
Eh, i can’t sleep on my back either, not only do i snore at triple the volume, i also suffocate a little bit while i’m doing it.
hof1991
Consider a sleep test. Apnea doesn’t get better with age. A disturbed sleep
Is a form of torture.
StClair
Seconded. Magic nose machine changed my life.
Bicycle Bill
Thirded. I use one too, even for those occasions when I lie down for a short nap.
Now, falling asleep in the La-Z-Boy in front of the TV? That’s an entirely different ball of wax.
Gash
Eh, that’ll be eternally put off since i can just sleep on my side without issues.
Kazuma Taichi
I can’t fall asleep on my back in the first place, so sleeping is one area I don’t expect I’d have issues with a tail
Now if I consider how often I knock things over with my hands and feet (not often but more than I’d like), and how often dogs knock things over with their tail (constantly), then I start to see an issue
King Daniel
And Willis delivers pain for Valentine’s Day, as it was foretold.
RassilonTDavros
Better headache than heartache!
Stephen Bierce
For which I’d have to play some Bonnie Tyler!
Jamie
Eh. I’ve been suicidal from headaches, but not from heartaches.
Fortunately, better hydration habits seem to have helped. And other stuff.
Lingo
Heartbreak once again. The relationship between Joyce and her brain may truly never recover.
The Wellerman
Tell me about it! ?
Doctor_Who
Joyce has never been more relatable.
The Wellerman
Well played, Willis! ?
Suet
Sleeping in on Valentine’s… tale as old as time
If I sleep on my stomach, I feel like I should be hugging some cold hard ground
Ray Radlein
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL
AndieStardust
UNBEARABLY SO
DailyBrad
Poor gal.
Joe Moose
Just take some ibuprofen and call it a day.
King Daniel
But what if the ibuprofen doesn’t like being called a day?
Delicious Taffy
Then maybe the ibuprofen would like to go back into the dark, cramped medicine cabinet with the rest of its friends.
Yotomoe
That or just drink a lotta water. Hydration is underrated.
Savail
I introduced my husband to the wonders of Midol for headaches back when we were dating. Never underestimate the magical healing powers of acetaminophen and caffeine. Ibuprofen is my achey-arthritis-joints-friend.
…Unless the headaches are caused by something else, like, say, low B12 that comes up normal on labwork.
Kimi
Could also be sinus related, especially since having a raised head seems to help. A decongestant can help then. Steam can also help too.
Women in my family get hormonal migraines, and the acetaminophen, ibuprofen and caffeine mixture is the only thing that works on them.
John Smith
I get pretty bad migraines. I’d heard of people using Midol to treat them, but I ended up running across Excedrin. It’s a stack of 250mg acetaminophen, 250mg ibuprofen (advil) and 65mg caffeine. It’s very effective, but makes me think my liver is going to explode if I use it too often.
But now that I look it up, Maybe Midol’s even more terrifying. 500mg of acetaminophen, 60mg caffeine, and something to put you to sleep.
milu
“low B12 that comes up normal on labwork”
Has that happened to you? how does that happen? and how else do you test for B12 levels other than with a blood test?
Masumi
Eat a liver and see if that improves anything :V
(no seriously, last time I had a (minor) depressive episode, I ate an entire fried pig liver and got WAY better)
Leadsynth
How’d it taste? I can’t decide if fried pig liver sounds great or awful.
Sombrero
Let’s say is an acquired taste.
Ryek Hvek
There’s always Liverwurst – no frying required.
Agemegos
I’ve eaten pigs’, calves’, geese’s, chickens’, and ostrich’s livers. Ostrich was best — tasted a bit like hazelnuts for some reason.
Liver tastes fine if it’s fresh, but gets bitter if it isn’t cooked promptly. The texture is a bit odd if you’re used to meat having fibres, but not unpleasant. Nevertheless the easiest way to like it is as a pâte or in sausages.
A little bit of pork-liver pâte is the secret ingredient in my ragù alla Bolognese.
Kyrik Michalowski
Joyce needs to invest in one of those shaped memory pillows, they make sleeping much easier, even when I have a migraine. A bonus as well, if you want to sleep on your side instead of your back it can be adjusted for that.
True Survivor
That sounds useful. Do you know the name of the brand?
Kyrik Michalowski
I do not unfortunately. I double checked the pillow but it isn’t labeled. Sorry :/
True Survivor
No problem. Thanks for looking, kind internet stranger.
Kimi
You can find generic memory foam pillows from really any store that sells pillows, like Macy’s or something. Just be careful since some can have a bit of a smell to them and some are thicker than others.
I use them since I mainly sleep on my side, I tend to prefer them.
Delicious Taffy
Do people sleep on their backs? That’s scary. What if a bug?
Heather
I find it’s generally better for the back itself to do that. Also if it hurts for any reason: pillow under the knee. Though it’s been a while since I’ve had to do that.
Bugs can be banished if need be.
milu
bugs: people sleep on their back? that’s scary. what if i want to walk around all over them and eat their dead skin and skin mites, now i have to look out for that wet hole they have
Needfuldoer
Submit a bug report, and the issue might get patched in a future update.
hof1991
That’s a feature not a bug.
King Daniel
*That’s a creature not a bug
BBCC
Migraines are the wooooooorst. I feel Joyce on this.
Kyrik Michalowski
Indeed, I wonder if she has the blinds pulled shut. I make sure every possible light source is as diminished as is reasonable
BBCC
Same. I always seem to get them on bright sunny days where I have to go to brightly lit rooms like when I was in school. Fucking. torture. Sitting there and feeling painful and nauseous until hours later you feel the sweet bursts of warmth that mean your headache is FINALLY breaking up.
Kyrik Michalowski
I really should invest in one of those sleeping masks that covers your eyes. If nothing else it’ll help with the light at least.
True Survivor
I like that Joyce is wearing the pajamas from that cartoon show she likes but not the shirt or hat. I gives the comic strong sense of continuity and makes Joyce seem like a real person, as it suggests that after the initial obsession that comes with a new found fandom, she has calmed down and no longer has to wear all the merch as a set, but still has the stuff lying around.
Dr. T
Well, at least Willis didn’t break up a couple this Valentines Day.
Diane
Obviously the answer is MORE PILLOWS.
Robbie
I sleep with a body pillow shaped like an inverted U. it is called a pregnancy pillow because apparently the time adults are socially allowed to be cozy and comfy is when they are literally growing another human.
As a person who has been pregnant but has chronic pain always, I think everyone should buy a pregnancy pillow if it would help them.
Eat the foods you crave when it seems wise as well! It irritates me that the only time most people think you should listen to cravings is when you’re pregnant.
Delicious Taffy
I appreciate the realistic detail of the pajama pants assuming their natural wedgie state. The people who make PJ pants have to be using a special weave designed to shove the middle third of the fabric directly into the wearer’s asscrack at the first sign of motion, right? Is that just me?
Yotomoe
o3o that or Willis just has terminal butts disease.
Delicious Taffy
Sometimes, the human body is forced to draw a fine ass. I can’t draw to save my life, but several times when I’ve been idly doodling, I’ve drawn the most absolutely perfect ass or boobs that could be drawn in that moment. It’s like a hard-coded signal in our DNA.