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Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches
I just searched The New York Times website for any articles related to migraine. Here's what I found: a very well-written, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow article on the disease. This could be a good resource to give to coworkers or friends who are curious to know more about Migraine but might not want to read an entire book. And speaking ...
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I've said before that I wouldn't wish the pain, disability, and frustration of Migraine disease on anybody. Now I'm calling myself out--I'm a big, fat liar. I DO wish every single person in the world could have just one Migraine attack. I don't wish chronic Migraines on anyone, not even my former next-door neighbor who was inconsiderate and r...
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Yesterday I was in a little thing I like to call a car wreck. Got hit on the driver's side and front of my car when a distracted dude ran a red light. Yeow! My car's condition is in limbo: will it be declared totaled, or will a shop repair it and try (but fail) to restore it to its old glory? It's sitting all lonely and sad in a local tow ...
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Tomorrow morning, a wonderfully friendly (and highly recommended) house cleaner is coming over here. I'm so excited. She's going to clean my house from top to bottom! Here's the sad truth, folks. I hope you don't respect me any less (assuming you respected me in the first place) and hope your judgment is not too harsh. But let me lay it all...
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I'm on day three of a Migraine attack. It flirted around a bit on Wednesday morning and decided to move in a little after noon that day. I expected a migraine the day after election day--the deflation of all that pent-up stress and worry, the sudden rush of relief, and the election-themed shots at the bar that were such a good idea at the time...
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Check this out! They're still expensive, but LEDs are slowly but surely making their way into the marketplace. Here's my comment on the article: As fluorescents (including CFLs) trigger vicious migraines for me and many other migraineurs, I can say I've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of household-use LEDs for quite awhile. I can't wait to...
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I skipped Halloween tonight. This seems pretty sad at first: I mean, I have always loved Halloween and tend to dress up each year--if you exclude a handful of early high school Halloweens when I was too cool (and too old, according to my parents) to dress up and go trick-or-treating. I've told you a little bit about my dear friend HT before. ...
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I have had the scholarship application for the Athens YMCA in my hands for months now. The duty of acquiring all the official documentation to prove that joining the Y is out of my budget...? Well, that's a duty I wasn't accomplishing. Yesterday, I put "finish YMCA scholarship app." on my things-to-do list. I had a couple of questio...
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Hi, guys. The Obama campaign folks sent me the following list and I thought I'd take their advice and repost it. If you're not pro-Obama, rest easy--I'm not going to pressure you to change your mind (even though I really think you should!). If you are pro-Obama, reading the following list is very important!! Repost this list if you desire. TOP 5...
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Saturday I woke up tired. Tired and sore. Most likely that's because I stayed up pretty late Friday night and had one too many vodka-sodas. Fair enough. I didn't feel hungover OR migrainey (miracle of miracles), but I was achy and tired much of the day. When night fell, however, I was awake and energetic and inspired. J. and I had some sus...
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To everyone who's ever felt out of it or stupid while taking a brain-altering drug: this short but poignant New York Times article by Judith Warner is wonderful! I responded to the article with this long letter (which initially started as a short comment). Links throughout lead you to relevant blog entries. Dear Judith, I confided in a friend...
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I was contacted by a very friendly and persistent woman named Kelli regarding this Big Pharma-sponsored website that's supposedly created for the needs of migraine bloggers like us. What follows is my response to the site, toned down for an email to Kelli, who wanted to know what I thought of the site, if I would use it, etc. I didn't point out...
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In the last several months, my sensitivity to light, smell, and sound has skyrocketed. I don't know what the deal is, but times are tough. I won't even go into the fact that going to rock shows (which is one of my favorite things to do in this entire world) has become painful to me even when I wear my omnipresent earplugs. Let's save that tra...
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Here's a photo I took of me with the beau this afternoon. (Thank you, iMac webcam. I love you and your lack of judgment when I take fifty thousand self-portraits.) I started to make a silly face when my jaw popped loudly (and painfully). The camera took our photo RIGHT as I was reacting to the TMJ pain. Candid TMJ dysfunction photo op! Thi...
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I think you should read these tips from Headache & Migraine News on how to effectively evaluate migraine-related news articles you come across. A succinct, smart, and straightforward guide for anyone, not just migraineurs. Thanks, James!
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The September edition of the How to Cope with Pain blog carnival is up. This month's theme? "New Beginnings." Check it out here!
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On Sunday at noon, I went to one of Athens's many yoga centers for a yoga nidra class. (I just wrote "noga yidra" and had to erase it. Thanks, Imitrex, for your charming effects on my brain.) My friend A. was about thirty seconds into her explanation of it when I decided it would indeed be for me. As someone who's done yoga nidra t...
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I had another good hour-long yoga class yesterday. It was hard to believe that an entire week had passed since my last class! Of course I started to give myself a hard time for not going to yoga several times a week, but within a few minutes I refocused my thoughts and patted myself on the back for finally making the time and effort to go once...
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For those of you who are Six Feet Under fans, there's a slim chance you know what I'm quoting in today's post title. If you're confused, worry not: I shall not enlighten you. I will tell you to watch Six Feet Under, however. I've watched the entire series twice over. I love it. But back to business: my left arm has been a state of discomf...
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Has anyone heard of guided reading and/or bibliotherapy? One of my graduate school professors is a big proponent and expert of this, and once I learned more about it, I realized I'd been doing it my whole life. A teacher or mentor helps select reading material that a student may have a meaningful connection to; during and after the student's r...
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