[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.

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[momijizukamori]

fwiw for me, sumatriptan usually took ~1 hr to really kick in, naratriptan more like 1.5h - 2h (naratriptan has a longer biological half-life - switched to it because my headaches last a day or two untreated and the sumatriptan would wear off after about eight hours). So there's some flexibility there with how long it takes to kick in/wear off depending on the exact triptan. They're also synergistic with NSAIDs.

(unfortunately my main prodrome symptom is like.... pain behind my left shoulder blade, which is also just sometimes my upper back/shoulder being shitty and it's always roulette figuring out which it's gonna be)