headaches

Today I woke up with a migraine - I still have it now and its killing me.  Honestly I have to deal with a migraine at least once or twice a week.  Most often on my study days - check out that irony.

I don't know if its the stress of studying or something more tangible....diet, exercise, sleep, etc.  So I guess I need to start keeping track of the details.  Today's migraine makes a lot of sense - I have not been sleeping well since I woke up from my nerves on Friday at 5am.  It's going to be hard to tell stress and activity factors since I've been trying to relax and do nothing for a coule days, but the guilt, stress, embaressment, etc. have been eating me alive. 

Known triggars: lack of sleep, not eating enough
Other associations I've observed: stress or adrenalyn rush (often after a performance or a big event, I usually have a very bad migraine when I supposed to be relaxing or celebrating)

So I need to keep a log. Maybe something like this...

Migraine 4/29/13  began around 7 am (still in pain at 12pm)
Today Sleep: 7.5 hours
(fell asleep on the couch for about 45 minutes before actually going to bed, so a little over 8 hours total)
Food today:
         Breakfast: Juice, Bannana, munching on cookies throughout the morning (I already had the headache when I woke up so it was hard to eat).
Activities Today: lay on couch, watched a movie
Stress Level: high
Food yesterday:
           Dinner:chicken tomato basil pasta; a few sips of wine
           Lunch: smoothie, tomato basil soup and a tomato mozzarella panini
           Breakfast:  Donut
Sleep Yesterday: less than 6 hours (woke up at 6 for work)
     **special note: been waking up at 5 for the few days before that...and having trouble getting to sleep   
Activities Yesterday: worked 6:30-8am; cleaned house and tried to rest (slept from 3-4); worked from 4:30-6pm; made dinner; watched movie; fell asleep on couch (perhaps neck in a bad position?)     
Stress level: high