[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

[syderia]

That triptan changed my life. (That, and starting coffee again, because it's very much a prophylactic for me).

It might be of interest to you: I have a migraine tracking app on my phone called Migraine Buddy, which is pretty customizable (it has the common meds and symptoms, but you can add your own) and once you've tracked enough crisis it starts trying to find similarities and gives you report of your crises.

[momijizukamori]

Ooh, ty for that tip, I'm going to check that out - so far for me the only relatively common thing is upper back/shoulder/neck muscle overuse, but it'd be good to have a record still.