who only by moving can balance

Right. So. This migraine.

It started on Wednesday. ( Read more... )

In summary: hopefully I now get another fortnight and change before the next round of this shit, so with a little bit of luck and a following wind I might even find it in me to talk about something that isn't Embodiment: The Terriblest Hobby. At least for a bit.

I hit the point, a couple of weeks ago, of being sufficiently annoyed at having to flip back through all of my Physio Pages (and/or the not-at-this-point-actually-terribly-new Clue interface) that I... maybe slightly designed a two-page migraines-at-a-glance tracker to carry around in my notebook.

The aims were to:

1. attempt to convince myself that I don't Imagine that Maybe I have photosensitivity on occasions that don't progress to Actually A Migraine;
   
2. hopefully coax myself into taking triptans before onset of headache, as is current best practice regardless of what The Internet says (as confirmed by Monday's GP, who was great);
   
3. optimise convenience of double-checking that migraine #2 really does occur 7-10 days after migraine #1 and I really can predict to at least that extent;
   
4. for bonus points, have a quick overview of how much I'm actually napping (and how that relates to migraine patterns, if at all -- in part because napping is sometimes a prodrome symptom).

So I ended up with this: ( Read more... )