Chronic migraine is sort of a secretive thing. We fake a smile for the camera. Hide the pain behind a smile. Hard to see. Hard to know. Never see behind closed doors. But it is a lot of cancelled plans. A lot of pain. A lot of symptoms. A lot people do not see or know or comprehend.
Tinted migraine glasses and essential oil necklace are essentials for leaving the house on a good day. Peppermint essential oil for nausea and to help mask other scents around me. Tinted Fl-41 glasses for photophobiaTired, dizzy. Took an Epsom Salt bath for my painful neck and to hopefully ease migraine. It didn’t work. Just more drained.Laid out. Can’t do anything to distract myself. But have cat snuggles. And TVUsing ice for migraine. Not a triptan day. So ice is the best I can do.sunglasses indoors sort of migraine daySunglasses and second ice pack day- first ice pack fail and move onto the next oneIn complete darkness. And have painsomnia due to the severity of a migraine that could not be managed… can’t sleep… no idea when I will be able to… likely migraine will persist into next day
Migraine art
When I first began my hobby of drawing again it was driven and inspired by the pain of my chronic migraine. The intensity of it.
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I have written many poems about chronic migraine but this one is the one that I think nailed it.
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6 thoughts on “A migraine story in pictures and art”
Definitely need some of those tinted glasses and come to think of it some sunglasses. The best I can do right now is keeping my environment as dark as possible and devices on night mode
It’s really interesting to see chronic migraine presented in photos, art and poetry, thanks for sharing. Personally I couldn’t survive without my eye masks and ice packs!
Thank you! There is so much migraine art out there that I relate to. I used to just write a lot of poetry but just got back into some drawing again- not great at it but I do love doing it. Art and creativity I think are great to help express pain in ways we sometimes have no other way to do so
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Definitely need some of those tinted glasses and come to think of it some sunglasses. The best I can do right now is keeping my environment as dark as possible and devices on night mode
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I have 3 tinted pairs. And 2 pairs of sunglasses. I am Set. Lol but I still use night mode on devices
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It’s really interesting to see chronic migraine presented in photos, art and poetry, thanks for sharing. Personally I couldn’t survive without my eye masks and ice packs!
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Oh I forgot my eye mask! Ah well. Yes that is awesome.
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Thanks for sharing your art, it really speaks to me
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Thank you! There is so much migraine art out there that I relate to. I used to just write a lot of poetry but just got back into some drawing again- not great at it but I do love doing it. Art and creativity I think are great to help express pain in ways we sometimes have no other way to do so
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