Thanks Cindy and vw, I am glad it sounds at least like something people have heard of, because I went into a horrible panick attack when it happened. The original doctor thought it might be related to the dryness of winter last year, so I think it is seasonal. After it went away I got the headache and nausea that I have heard people mention with migraines. I still feel kind of crappy today.

yay

hugs internets

it was all gone. luckily I checked the cable modem , which some how became upplugged

All my best friends have been girls/women. All my guy friends have eventually ended up making moves on me. Based solely on my own experience, I think that guys only befriend girls that they are interested in dating and hope they get lucky one day.

I have more male friends now than ever. I think I'm too much woman for most of them, though.

sj, I would take something (I got them a lot when pregnant, so I still try Tylenol first out of habit, but there are better OTC medications), lie down in the dark, then have coffee before I came back into a lighted room. I would wear sunglasses around the house, if they hit when I had to do something (feed a baby, etc.) and couldn't lie down.

I tended to get the headache and sick feeling afterward, but the headaches were not unbearable.

Very few of the guys I know more than passingly ever make moves on me. Perhaps it's the unsparkle of my personality. Guys who are going to make moves, it seems, make them right up front, so I can deal with it as appropriate and move on in the applicable manner.

Which is nice...except that I never make moves on guys, so it kinda sucks to know I won't be rescued from my own cowardice/issues by someone I've known a while.

If you don't count friends garnered from b.org, or relatives, my friends are predominantly male. Face to face, it seems that's what sticks.

When I was younger, my friends were about a 50/50 m-f split. Now, they're mostly female, although most of them are married, and I consider their husbands friends too, so... I dunno why I thought I had something to contribute to this conversation.

I'm right with you, ita.

sj, I would take something (I got them a lot when pregnant, so I still try Tylenol first out of habit, but there are better OTC medications), lie down in the dark, then have coffee before I came back into a lighted room. I would wear sunglasses around the house, if they hit when I had to do something (feed a baby, etc.) and couldn't lie down.

Thanks, Cindy. If I can avoid the panic attack next time, I'll do that, but because of that I couldn't relax enough to lie down or be alone.

My statement was a bad reaction to this:

No offense to those of us who are with the ovaries and whatnot, but there was a VERY good reason most my friends in high school and college were guys.

It upsets me to see women make these kinds of disparaging remarks about other women. Still not a reason to make a disparaging remark about men, so I apologize.