kaberett | [healthwork] further adventures in migraine

... okay, well, that's not not a hormonal-cycle-related pattern starting to emerge :| (still not tracking anything else particularly carefully, but no link with alcohol consumption so far...)
prodrome symptom: thermoregulation, particularly if I am feeling too warm
prodrome symptom: "cognitive impairment + photosensitivity" is in fact distinguishable from "abruptly so tired I can't keep my eyes open" (and can be trivially checked by going into a darker room)
setting everything up to be light-on-dark makes screens much more tolerable, so I should add "setting up my laptop so it's a single settings switch that's easily accessible" to my todo list
zolmitriptan 2.5mg experiment #1: took drug at ~1624 after dithering for actually only about 5 minutes, go me; still developed partial Bad Headache while passing out circa 1700; upright again and tolerating medium light levels without sunglasses by 1945, where I think previously it has taken several hours more than that to get back to that stage
earplugs were a good idea; eyemask now lives out on my side of the bed so it's easier to access; and I should go "fuckit" about Efficiency and Reuse and just buy an Expensive blackout blind for the bedroom that Just Works if I'm gonna keep doing this.

this is not a Hoarding Resource, this is a Take If Uncertain resource, no one is going to give you Stoic Points for Not Taking Your Migraine Pill

Because feeling like "my pain doesn't matter" is part of my prodrome

right!! well for me it's more that pain is one of the very last things to land, and by that time whoo boy are we in for a Time.