Author: The Mindful Migraine Blog
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Love and migraines
Happy Valentine’s Day to the romantic souls amongst you. The day apparently originated as a means of honoring the martyr St Valentine, who used to administer services, including marriage, to the early Christians of the Roman Empire (and was killed for his actions). The more you read, the more you…
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Fuel and migraines
Right at eye height, on the shelf in my fridge this morning, there was a food container. On the side of the container were the words ‘fuel your journey’. It made me think not only about the nutrition that we require to keep our bodies going, but also how quickly…
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Metamorphosis and migraines
In a recent post I wrote about ‘Re-finding the I in Linda’. I spoke about wanting to minimize the impact migraine was having on my identity and reclaim a sense of my old self. I’ve since realized that approach, though natural, is potentially misguided. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever be…
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Eye masks and migraines
Eye masks are possibly our most humble defense against migraine pain. I suspect they’re probably our oldest too. It’s not hard to imagine everyone from a caveman, to a Roman gladiator and a medieval babe in a beribboned cone-hat with an arm thrown across their face to keep the sun…
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AI art for migraines
‘AI art for migraines’ is the weirdest title I have written so far on my mindful migraine blogging journey. It came about for two reasons. The first is that I’ve been thinking a lot about art therapy and how people gain so much comfort from mindful activities such as painting,…
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Why pain-scales need modifications for chronic migraines
A couple of posts ago (here) I showed you a pain-scale of 1-10 (replicated in the top line of the picture below). In the graphic, I used little faces to show the increasing sense of distress that goes with the increased pain. For irregular migraines the scale works well, you’re…
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Nasal sprays for migraines
My general practitioner recently advised me that I could switch the abortive medication that I take for migraines when they are happening, from a tablet that I swallow to a nasal spray. She said the medicine works faster because it goes straight into your bloodstream through the blood vessels in…
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Dream analysis for migraines
One of the first things my neurologist recommended I do as part of my new holistic approach to healing my migraines, was therapy (we call it counselling in Australia). He recommended CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) which I’ll post about soon. (Un)fortunately, there was no one doing that form of counselling…
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Float tanks for migraines
A couple of years ago (when I was still only getting occasional migraines), my family bought me a 3-pack gift card to a float tank as a relaxing treat. My first thought was terror; I had a mental image of a giant silver bullet filled with water that you climbed…
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