Category: Treatment
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What is White Magic?
As Christmas draws near, the phrase ‘white magic’ keeps popping up in reference to a wintery wonderland shared with family and friends. In Australia, however, it’s Summer, so there’s not a snowball to be seen. As such, the kind of White Magic that has been on my mind of late,…
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
A short time ago I wrote a post about the four stages of migraine, one of which is called “aura” (here). The sorts of things that happen to migraine patients during the aura stage include: visual disturbances, dizziness, ringing in their ears, even paralysis. But one of the rarer symptoms…
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Aphasia armsand… what?
When you have chronic migraine, your brain doesn’t always brain the way it’s supposed to. Brain-fog is real. For me there are some days I feel as if I have lost several IQ points. Other days, the effect of migraine-overwhelm is more subtle… I don’t have complete confusion, I just……
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When the doctor is your trigger
When discussing your migraines with the doctor, it is fairly standard to refer to your triggers at some point in the consultation. “Flashing lights definitely cause migraines,” you might say, and “I’m pretty certain fatigue, stress and dehydration are not good for me either”. And as you think back over…
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Hiss… Growl… Grumble… Sigh…
I’m feeling a little grumpy today. The story starts with me going onto the computer to look at flowers. It’s springtime here in Australia, and in preparation, I recently planted a gazillion seeds only for the vast majority of them to wash away and drown after we received a months’…
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Bibliotherapy and migraines
As someone who has had a lot of migraines, I can tell you that there is a sliding scale of functionality that is attached to a life lived with pain. On some days, the pain is manageable or nearly missing, so you can do most things, even perform something as…
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When hair follicles scream
For those of you who don’t get migraines, the above title probably seems a bit random… or else, overly dramatic. For those of you that DO get migraines (poor you) – you know what I mean. I was recently out blog-roving when I came across a post by Jennifer on…
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Serena Williams and her migraine meds
Serena Williams, tennis-player extraordinaire, has been in my news feed quite a lot lately. Seeing her name reminded me of a little itch in the back of my mind about a story from 2024… something to do with migraines… medicine… and complaints… I went looking, and here’s the first article…
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Doom-scrolling as weasels dance…
Every now and then I read something that causes me to go back and read it again… and sometimes… again. A blog post titled “Breaking free from the weasel dance” was one such moment. I spend a lot of time reading and researching material related to mindfulness and ways that…
The Mindful Migraine 