Ow my eyeballs.

[hirez]

As Ed Price would have it: 'Having a bit of a fester'. For one reason or another, the last pair of migraines kicked the crap out of me. I'm not sure if I'm paying more attention to the inside of my head, or if these were just different. Anyway, I think the blood-sugar crashes and ugly mood swings have stopped, so I'm far less likely to call you all a tiresome shower of bastards and employ a brutal and entirely personal Stark Fist of Removal. Praise 'Bob' for &style=mine.

Migraine malarkey on the web seems to fall into two camps. Accept the healing power of Ergotamine (Mentioned in both Big Black sleevenotes and a (presumably, since I bought one) short-lived comic-thing called A1. Albini also mentions heroin, and I'm not trying that either.) or the healing power of Jesus. Well, a plague on both their houses. I'm into prevention, not mitigation. Here's an undergrad sufferer's paper which covers it all well.

Via the fine fellows over at CCC we find this (entertaining) and this (bloody depressing).

I'm not sure about this. A part of this. The 'Deaf Bach' section in particular.

Comments

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Luckily my triggers are reasonably easy to deal with if I'm paying attention. The info about the side-effects of sumatripan (which otherwise I swear by) is useful - thanks.

My mum used to get a migraine regularly every month - when she was trying to sort out the monthly family finances. I don't think she's had one since my parents got divorced.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

This:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69614,00.html
popped up a few weeks ago, with another strange migraine-heart connection. Though I'm not sure it's remotely relevant except in an interesting-in-principle way.

And I must surely have pointed you at this before:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330331868
in which the mighty Oliver Sacks tells you more about migraine than the interweb will ever know. I'm sure I have a copy somewhere. I want a Google Earth plugin that makes all my books show up as little flashing lights.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Have you been able to chart your diet to determine if it might be food-related?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much any kind of light with a high UV content coming from the wrong angle, especially when I'm tired. It's been set off by BMW brakelights and a reflection of daylight off a CD, for example.