[healthwork] further adventures in migraine

[kaberett]

• ... 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.

Comments

[niqaeli]

So, I don't know if your photosensitivity is merely triggered by migraine or if it contributes to being prone to them, but if so I offer as a data point that you obviously can ignore entirely as irrelevant to you:

In addition to having everything light-text-on-dark-background always on my devices, I also have f.lux or the device's native orange-light settings cranked up pretty high at all times even during the day (I have it less cranked up during the day on the computers running f.lux (as opposed to the personal devices that are running iOS) where I have pretty fine control over the settings, but my 'less cranked up' during the day is more orange than the default settings for night sooo yeah) unless I am doing fiddly colour work of some kind. Because for me, my more general photosensitivity is actually my single biggest migraine trigger and it's cumulative, so it turns out minimising the blue light I am exposed to massively reduces the frequency of migraines. It was fun working that one out when mostly! I don't notice anything about being photosensitive! Except that I have Really Good night vision! Riiiight up until the migraine hits! *facepalm*