Category: Treatment
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What causes ocular migraines?
Today’s post is about Ocular Migraine. Which is also sometimes called Retinal Migraine. (And that’s just the start of my confusion!) I don’t personally have this sort of migraine, so this is all new to me. I’ll go step by step through the material I read, and hopefully I’ll help…
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Healing migraines with a chat-bot
AI-everything is everywhere these days. Discover an item from your grocery delivery is missing? Log onto the computer and a chat-bot will efficiently refund your money for the missing item. Or, it gets into a strange, circular argument where it can’t understand what you want and can’t seem to forward…
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Daith piercing for migraines
Many cultures see ear-piercing as highly fashionable. When I was young, I agreed, and was a super-fan of all that glittered. My mother, however, was not so keen. I still remember the speech she delivered: “if God had wanted you to have holes in your ears, you would have been…
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What is hemiplegic migraine?
OK, so the last couple of weeks I have been travelling a detour, looking into books and beliefs and gawking at AI making me a podcast episode… it’s now time to return to the main road and talk about migraines and mindfulness. So, today’s post is about the source of…
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The opposite of The Placebo Effect
I don’t identify with the term ‘pessimism’. I see myself as ‘rationally realistic’. My husband, an ‘eternal optimist’, would probably disagree. I’ve written before about the version of pessimism that I carry through life (which can be summarized as ‘hope for the best / plan for the worst’). The prior…
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What is ‘therapeutic touch’?
In a recent post I made about my ‘migraine cave‘ (which is the room I retreat to when I feel unwell), my friend Michelle from the Greenwell Centre blog (here), recommended the advantages of having a family member trained in Therapeutic Touch so that they can assist you during a…
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Lymphatic drainage for migraines
Today’s post is an enquiry into the latest trend that has been burning up my newsfeed: Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD). I know we have lymph nodes, but it never occurred to me you could ‘drain’ them… I’ve written in the past about different healing options I’ve spotted online, such as…
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Why women get more migraines than men
If you read migraine literature, you keep brushing up against the statistic that women are much more likely to get migraines than men. Very rarely is it ever explained WHY. I have always assumed it was hormonal, and vaguely remember hearing that the wise men of medicine in the past…
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Migraines and the MTHFR gene
OK, heads up – swear word coming up. When I first saw the term “MTHFR gene” in a wellness book, my mind instantly (and unnecessarily) filled in the blanks with vowels and came up with the rude phrase “mother-f*ckr gene”. Sorry. [I blame it on the self-help shelf at the…