The Mindful Migraine

Ok, so I totally tempted fate yesterday by saying that I was ‘over’ my migraine attack.  A few hours later, I was back in bed, completely wiped out, no dinner for me.  At the risk of showing my age, I feel like one of those antique ‘roly-poly dolls’ or the lyrics from the 1997 ‘Tubthumping’ song by Chumbawamba: “I get knocked down, but I get back up again”. 

This week started with ‘routine wreckers’ and ‘car crashes’, so it’s time to pivot back to my intended tone of eternal optimism and tell you about a self-help summit that’s coming up.

By accident, I came across the World Migraine Summit which is being held online starting on the 6^th of March:

Learn from the Migraine and Headache Experts – Migraine World Summit.

Here’s what I’ve learnt so far:

In terms of cost: “The online Migraine World Summit is free to watch during the live event.  Each day four interviews are released and are available for 24 hours before the next day’s interviews are released.”  If you’re not able to watch the videos during those 24 hours, or want to watch them again, then you can become a paying member.  The fee seems to range from $150 to $250 (presumably $USD). 

[I’ve signed up for the free pass.]

In terms of content: Each day offers 4 presentations.  They seem to include generic presentations, (such as ‘what are the different types of migraines’ or ‘how do you get migraine relief?’), through to the more specific (‘what happens when you’re over 50?’ or ‘how do we look after migraine kids at school’) to the very targeted (‘Finding Balance in Vestibular Migraine Diagnosis and Treatment’).

[I already have at least one presentation that I’m interested to watch from each day.  On one of the days there’s 3 that are of interest to me.]

In terms of presenters: they appear to be primarily neurologists and represent universities and headache clinics from around the world.

So far there hasn’t been any downside to signing up to the free summit.  I’ve only received a few additional emails, but no relentless spamming, which is refreshing.  Presumably, after next week if they keep emailing, I can unsubscribe.

Rest assured, I’ll let you know anything that jumps out as universally helpful, and you should all feel free to come back later and drop comments below if you hear any fascinating new facts that you think might help others.

Take care everyone,

Linda.

[PS. I’m still experimenting with AI art because it provides easy and instant gratification (the exact opposite of mindfulness – oops).  I gave the generator the following prompt: “show me some pictures of what a group of brains holding a conference would look like, done with photographic realism” and the result was the one picture at the top of the post (with the original colors muted slightly).  I feel a little conflicted that the brainiacs are all male, but kind of love that it’s a woman lecturing the men for a change, avoiding the usual mansplaining vibe.  Also, I’m really not sure whether to be amused or distressed by what the man on the left is doing with his left hand!?@#) 

Ah migraines – you gotta laugh or you’d cry!