Category: Triggers
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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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Does crying cause migraines?
Two years ago, I wrote a post called “Mo(u)rning“. I wrote it because I was sad following the loss of a family member in my life, but was also writing more broadly about grieving over the loss of self that often accompanies a chronic pain diagnosis. Today I want to…
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What is neuro-immune lag?
Over and over I remind you: DON’T take medical advice off the internet. And I mean it. But. I’m also guilty of letting little tidbits of information tweak my curiosity and send me off to investigate more. That’s how I landed on the concept of ‘neuro-immune lag’. PainNP is a…
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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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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 weather
People who get migraines are human barometers. That’s my truth and I’m sticking to it no matter what the science says – when the barometric pressure drops (as it often does when a storm is coming) – I can feel it in my head… sometimes I get a migraine, sometimes…
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Migraine = an own goal
Today’s post is a book review – sort of – it’s about “Splitting: the inside story on headaches” (2020) by physiologist and neuroscientist Amanda Ellison. The reason it’s only ‘sort of’ a book review, is that it was a pretty intense book, for a potentially more medical-trained readership, so I…
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When your migraine triggers are a trigger
“What do you think caused this bad migraine?” my husband kindly asks. “I don’t know,” I honestly reply; “yesterday was very hot, so maybe I got overly dehydrated?” If I’m in a reasonable mood the innocent enquiry will end there. If I’m feeling more paingry, then I’m likely to get…
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What really causes migraines?
My blog buddy over on Roaring Meg recently published a post called What really causes migraines? The post included a link to a BBC article of the same name (here). The article is written by freelance journalist and migraine-patient Sophia Quaglia. Ms Quaglia describes her migraine flare-ups like this: …the…