Category: Treatment
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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…
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Vitamin B6 Toxicity
In the Australian news at the moment, there has been a sudden influx of articles relating to Vitamin B6 toxicity. A large corporation who sells over-the-counter supplements is facing a potential class-action lawsuit over claims that excessive levels of vitamin B6 are contained in its products and those high levels…
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What is the Alexander Technique?
I recently came across a comment that went something along the lines of “AT helped me end my migraines” – HOORAY! – I thought, but also, what was AT, and was it something that could help me? Turns out it stands for Alexander Technique, and as Philipa Batty writes in…
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Will this upset the Mindfulness Police?
When I first started practicing mindfulness, it was practice in the sense of a “learning experiment” rather than a “regular habit”. I relied heavily on YouTube videos that appeared in my google searches, and made selections of what to try based on the shortest duration of the video rather than…
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Green light therapy for migraines
A while ago, I was listening to a podcast about migraines when the pain patient said something like, “if I won the lottery, I would build a green light therapy room in my home.” What, I wondered, is green light therapy? According to Time.com, people with chronic pain can be…
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The 7 types of rest
The other day I woke up after 8 hours of sleep and said to my husband; “I’m STILL tired!” And I don’t mean I spent 8 hours in bed tossing and turning and staring at the ceiling – it was 8 hours of deep sleep. I’m almost always so exhausted…
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Does mustard help migraines?!?
A little while ago a reader called Angelina sent me a link to a Facebook video that showed someone putting their feet in a bowl of warm water and mustard and said, “I saw this and thought of you”. Now, it’s not every day that people associate me with mustard,…
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