Category: Strategies
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Consipracy theories and chronic pain
When I was younger (and I’m talking about everything from my teens to my 30s) I LOVED unsolved mysteries. The Mary Celeste comes instantly to mind – it was the boat that was found floating on the Atlantic in the 1870s. The ship was undamaged, loaded with food, and yet…
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Why do we hide our chronic illness?
A little while ago I posted a book review titled “hidden from view“. The idea was that the real root-cause of chronic illness is often hidden behind other more obvious reasons. We think it’s a physical, structural reason, but is often a deeper more subconscious, psychological cause. More recently, the…
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Therapy for chronic pain
In Australia we don’t usually say ‘therapy’, we say ‘counselling’ – but they mean the same thing: talking to a professional in the hope of feeling better. When it comes to living a life with chronic pain, I think it can help. I know I keep going back to the…
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Daylight savings and migraines
Last weekend, in Sydney-Australia, our clocks rolled back an hour. My youngest daughter was ecstatic to find out that when she came home from a party late at night on Saturday, she would score another hour of sleep. The other daughter forgot about the clock-change and got up as per…
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Implants for migraine prevention
I’m conflicted by news of an implant for migraine care – it’s super exciting to think there might be another treatment option for those of us who struggle with chronic migraine…. but I’m also a little queasy about the idea of an implant in my head. [Disclaimer – as always…
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Marketing mantras for healing
I’ve spent my professional life in fields such as architecture, project management, and construction. When I had to rev-up a team in the past, it’s usually with a reminder that there’s a deadline to achieve, and usually there’s financial penalties for missing that deadline. As such, the ‘motivator’ that keeps…
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To turmeric or not to turmeric?
I’m always on the look-out for ways to reduce the frequency and severity of my migraine events. The more you look and listen, the more you notice recurring suggestions. Turmeric is one of those recurring suggestions. But what is turmeric and why might it help? According to Wikipedia, turmeric is…
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Migraines for those of us who are over 50
Oops! Today’s notes come from the 2024 Migraine World Summit held last year, and summarizes my understanding of the interview with Dr Messoud Ashina, Professor of Neurology, University of Copenhagen. Dr Ashina started by noting that the typical trajectory for migraine is that it starts in early adulthood, peaks in…
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You gotta have good foundations
If you want a building to stay standing… you gotta have foundations. Tents don’t have foundations… and tents blow away when they’re subjected to a little bit of wind-blowing-pressure. A skyscraper, on the other hand, well it has structural members that go deeeeeep underground, so that it can stay standing…
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