Health musings...

[fajrdrako]

After not having had a migraine for a couple of years, I had two in three days. The Stage Manager was saying that his wife was having migraines just about every second day; it seems to be environment-related. The heat? The humidity? The air pressure? The smog? Simple bad luck? I remember in Rome I got a case of heat prostration just from walking a little bit in the heat.

Ugh.

I took a bus to work today, and chanced to get an air conditioned bus. I had a seat, too. It was wonderful. It was travelling in comfort. But it seems so lazy.

It's better than making myself sick, walking in the heat. But... I don't like it on principle.

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[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

My migraines are pretty strictly hormonal - I can make them worse with environmental factors, but they don't cause them (that I can tell). But I know that some people do have chemical triggers, or other things. And now they're saying that what most people call sinus headaches are really migraines with a side helping of sinus pressure and that unless you have a rare sinus infection - it's not a sinus headache!

I keep hoping that menopause will end my migraines, but so far all that peri-menopause has done is make them more unpredictable. used to be 3 days of misery and now they seem to come and go at random.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping that menopause will end my migraines

Yeah, me too, but I'm beginning to fear I'll never ever reach menopause. Grump. How do you know your migraines are hormonal? I've wondered whether mine are - it would made sense, with my physiology - but I know of no way of judging that. I do get a headache on the third day of my period, every time. But it isn't a migraine.

My migraines are certainly unpredictable. Every time the visual disturbance starts I go into denial.

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to fear I'll never ever reach menopause.

Well, I've been in perimenopause for a couple of years, but just lately things seem to be progressing even faster. I can only hope.

I used to get my migraines pretty regularly at the same point in my cycle, and since hormonal triggers are so common in women, I just assumed. Of course, it could be hormones affecting some chemical balance, too.

Just got a spam for a study of hormonal migraines - but of course I'm now too old for any of them!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't even have symptoms of perimenopause. The only thing that's happened is my cycle has become more regular in the past five years. I can only try to be patient....

It would be nice to find a migraine trigger that makes migraines preventable, but I fear that if it's the weather, there's not a lot I can do about it. There was something on the news about setting a record for heat... And the air conditoning is down at work.

So I'm hanging in there. Three days now without a migraine - this is encouraging.

[squashed.livejournal.com]

Both the last set of humid days *and* this set, I've had headaches that the tylenol seems to do very little to fight back. I'm thinking it's been the heat/humidity/air pressure because of that.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It could be - too bad we can't control the weather! I haven't tried taking medicine for this, though I do have migraine medicine in my cabinet somewhere. I guess I should get it out just in case. In the past, nothing made any difference to a migraine, but I'm thinking of 15 to 20 years ago and medicine has become much more effective - as well as much more expensive.

[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

I don't get migraines, but I do have chronic headaches, so I sympathize to some extent. Hope whatever's triggering it goes away.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I hope so too. Let's declare ourselves headache-free zones....

At least it's something I have in common with Lymond. I was just rereading the passage where he gets a migraine while talking to Sybilla in Dieppe and by gum, it's *such* an exact description of what happened to me.... Minus the stress and family troubles.

[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

Man, the Lymond connexion is almost enough to make up for the migraines, methinks (but then, I don't have them.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

the Lymond connexion is almost enough to make up for the migraines

It's the only good side of it that I can think of! And it doesn't seem so good when the thing is actually happening.

[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

Obviously you need a Philippa. (On that note, my mother went out to pick squash last night and came back with two that were sort of joined together on one side like they were snuggling. She came back in, held it up, and proudly proclaimed, "It's Francis and Philippa!" out of nowhere.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Even your vegetables are into Dunnett! I like that!