Category: Triggers
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Metabolic migraines
Ugh – I suppose that a blog writer who writes about migraines is going to have to expect to get a migraine from time to time. But I’m back – it’s 2.30pm in Australia and now that I’m up and at it, I thought I’d send you some notes I…
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Migraine terminology (words matter… mostly)
The other day on Twitter-X, I saw a post that essentially read “I’m 50 years old and I’ll go to my grave using two spaces after a full-stop.” The replies varied from “preach brother” and “I’ll die on that hill with you”, through to “do what you want – editors…
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Migraines and car crashes
In Australia, you can get your Learners License when you turn 16, and then sit a driving test for your Provisional License when you are 17. When I went for my driving test (decades ago), my examiner told me that I had done everything right and broken no laws, but…
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Migraines in The Matrix
Sometimes it can feel like you’re living in an alternate reality to everyone else, like the movie The Matrix. This is not, however, the sort of Matrix I want to talk about today. There will be no advice on how to bend spoonies, for example. (As an aside – if…
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Eye masks and migraines
Eye masks are possibly our most humble defense against migraine pain. I suspect they’re probably our oldest too. It’s not hard to imagine everyone from a caveman, to a Roman gladiator and a medieval babe in a beribboned cone-hat with an arm thrown across their face to keep the sun…
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Nasal sprays for migraines
My general practitioner recently advised me that I could switch the abortive medication that I take for migraines when they are happening, from a tablet that I swallow to a nasal spray. She said the medicine works faster because it goes straight into your bloodstream through the blood vessels in…
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Keto for migraines
As another way of attempting to minimize the number of migraine days I have each month, I have recently begun researching whether there are any changes to my diet that can be made. ‘Keto’ is a phrase that keeps popping up on the internet. A ‘keto’ diet, or ketogenic diet,…
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Better breathing for migraines
A major part of mindfulness is breathing. It sounds a little suspect when you first hear about it – ‘breathing? I do that all the time already!’ What becomes apparent when you do a bit of research, however, is how badly migraineurs tend to breathe. I know that I tend…
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Climate and migraines
I have discovered that my migraines are very sensitive to the climate. Very hot or very cold days can trigger pressure in my head which sometimes leads to a tension headache, or a migraine. What I realized the other day, however, is humidity is also a trigger. I had spent…
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