1401 days without alcohol. Used to drink like a fish for a long time.

Tonight I had half a pint of Guiness in a pub with nostalgic childhood memories. Sat by the river smoking my pipe, chatting with a random guy I approached as soon as I walked outside. Lovely guy from Birmingham, who was intrigued as his dad used to smoke a pipe.

Figured it was all good - no buzz, not tipsy, and didn't drink to get drunk. No harm no fowl?

And now - a silent migraine has struck. I haven't had a migraine since I quit drinking - and yet drinking was what caused my migraines to begin, and quitting alcohol ended my migraines.

But then tonight - the aura. Which eventually dispated and descended into violent waves of nausea and dizziness. And in the background, a distant headache rumbles like a far away storm. I think my body has sent me a clear message to remain on course and never to romanticise alcohol being viable in my life any more.

I used to get several migraines a month, and the pain was like a tooth abcess of the brain. I don't ever want to go back to that.

So let's not ey? Besides, let's be honest - drunk people are 50 shades of intolerable.

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EDIT - I got an early night and was hit with the full fat migraine as soon as I did. Took hours to finally find a spot on the pillow where the brain wasn't angered. Got a decent night's sleep after. And now the postdrome phase for that lasts several days. Basically feeling hungover and extremely delicate - where a cough, sneeze, stooping over, or causing anything that ups movement and blood pressure in my brain - and the migraine goes "Ohullo" for a split second and it's another shovel slap to the noggin'. Plus dizziness, nausea and just a general intense malaise. Can't understand how I soldiered through years of daily drinking with regular migraines.

Truth be told, yes I do. At 9am I'm going to ring the pharmacy and see if they have Triptans as it's the only med that works for my migraines. I recommended it to so many other sufferers as it nullifies most of the pain rapidly. Used to take them as soon as the aura began.

EDIT 2 - Just got some Triptans from the pharmacy. £8 for 2 pills - they know how bad migraines are, and they're milking it.