Light sensitivity and eye pain are very common migraine symptoms. It isn't only an aversion to light but it can also make the migraine pain more intense. For people without headache disorders, light became too bright when it hit 23,000 lux (like a bright, sunny, cloudless day). Even at that intensity, 24% were not bothered … Continue reading Migraine disease and photophobia
Migraine: beginner’s guide to posts
I have written a great deal about migraines and perhaps that makes it tricky to find the basic information one might want to find. So here is your guide to migraines from my blog. Just some basics. Impact of high episodic and chronic migraine study What I want people to understand about chronic migraine Migraine … Continue reading Migraine: beginner’s guide to posts
Migraine auras and hallucinations
Okay, this is going to be a weird post about reality and what we can actually Know about reality when we have neurological conditions. So weird. Just a heads up. I have persistent migraine auras and also auras before a migraine. And I get a boatload of types. The visual- which is my persistent migraine … Continue reading Migraine auras and hallucinations
Chronic migraine: Topamax to blame for brain drain?
We all know there are cognitive impairments with chronic migraine. With any migraine. And if we needed to know the details of that, well, they did a study on it. My post about that is here. This essentials to that migraine study were: “Cognitive performance decreases during migraine attacks, especially in reading and processing speed, … Continue reading Chronic migraine: Topamax to blame for brain drain?
Weird migraine symptoms
Frequent urination Yeah, it is just a lot of peeing and drinking water, peeing and drinking water. An endless cycle of peeing water. Yawning Am I sleepy? Or impending migraine doom? Sleepy? Migraine? Yeah, it was both actually. But it is incessant yawning. You can't stop Yawning. Auditory hallucinations You know auras are not that weird … Continue reading Weird migraine symptoms
Now, Now. Not later, Now
Like right now. I want this vertigo and dizziness to be fixed now. Like now, now. Not later. Not I need a CAT scan and see my neuro and whatever later. I wanted my doctor to do something the moment I saw her. Just something. Just something to get me through till that Later. Something … Continue reading Now, Now. Not later, Now
