Things that may have caused your migraine

[untonuggan]

Things that may have caused your migraine, now or in the future or in the past or in an alternate timeline
(  that you should definitely track in a migraine journal or app )

• hard cheese
• dark chocolate
• trace amounts of chocolate in another form of candy
• sugar of any kind
• aspartame or artificial sweetener
• any form of food that tastes good
• not eating
• lack of sleep
• too much sleep
• sleeping at the wrong time of day
• caffeine
• lack of caffeine
• high pressure systems
• low pressure systems
• Mercury in retrograde
• your favorite show was cancelled
• your OTP will never be canon because the producers are just queerbaiting you
• someone was wrong on the internet
• you were wrong on the internet and you can't take it back
• post-modernism
• capitalism/The System/insurance companies
• stress because Pluto is no longer a planet and Pluto was your favorite
• "good stress"
• the cost of your migraine medication
• the app does not have a box to let you track your period
• deep existential questions about why migraines hurt so fucking much
• maybe your migraines are really caused by something else, like the wrong glasses prescription
• people telling you how to stop your migraine with yoga
• migraine journals

Comments

[spiralsheep]

You forgot: • opening your curtains in the morning ;-)

[untonuggan]

ha. yes.

[kittydesade]

My favorite are the wrong on the internet ones.

[untonuggan]

thank you.

(i can't decide which feeling is worse though. like wanting to correct the wrong and having an anger cycle or being wrong and having a shame spiral. they are both pretty craptacular.)

[jesse_the_k]

Or doing both simultaneously (as I did recently) and having a shame/anger spiral, which is like living in a tornado.

[jelazakazone]

You forgot water. :D

[untonuggan]

:)

"there is water in your body, but not in the right proportion because your brain made a rounding error"

[syntaxofthings]

in an alternate timeline. yup.

[untonuggan]

def

[capri0mni]

You've won the Internet, today (I hope that doesn't trigger a migraine).

[untonuggan]

ha. thank you! nah, migraine was already hanging out thanks to incoming snowstorm

[untonuggan]

also your snark icon is the best

[capri0mni]

Aha! Hence the desire to move to a planet without weather. ...I hope you've managed to beat it into a corner, at least.

(BTW, I particularly like the "App has no option to track your period" entry. My life, welcome to it).

[st_aurafina]

This is the best. I will now blame my migraines on "your OTP will never be canon because the producers are just queerbaiting you" because why the hell not.

[pipisafoat]

i concur. plus i have far too many OTPs (not all of which are queer), so i can use a different one each time and be good for a loooooong time!

[untonuggan]

you're welcome.

[frayadjacent]

Hahahhahahahahahahhaaaaaaa

[untonuggan]

:)

naps are the best. why is all the best sleep in nap form?

ETA: using this icon because when the sun is at this angle my brain goes "now is the best time to sleep."

[frayadjacent]

That is a good sun angle for sleeping.

I've determined that my migraines are almost always hormonal, but they are either triggered by sleep OR they are cured by sleep. It's almost always one or the other.

[lilysea]

Oh, that is VERY good. ^_^

*gets migraines*

My migraines are caused by:
- dairy
- gluten
- low blood sugar
- high blood sugar
- fluro lights
- too-bright sunlight
- flickering shadows eg caused by metal bars, trees by the side of the road
- loud noise
- dehydration
- lack of sleep
- stress
- too much coffee
- perfume / deodorant / airfreshner
- people chewing smelly gum in train carriages
- and also "who the fuck knows?"

[untonuggan]

i definitely get weather and hormone related migraines, and caffeine withdrawal migraines. but other ones are in a "wtf" category bc when I'm not on my daily anti-migraine med I get a rolling monthslong headache and that is a nopetopus. so.

<3

*solidarity fistbump*

[fayanora]

* Having a head
* Donald Trump

[jadelennox]

postmodernism is my migraine trigger? That explains how I get so fucking many of them!!!

[alee_grrl]

This is perfect. <3

[jazzyjj]

Someone mentioned Donald Trump earlier, and I think I'll add to that politics in general. I've never had a migraine, but I'm assuming politics causes so much stress in some people that they get migraines?

[shehasathree]

*Not paying enough attention/paying too much attention to your migraine triggers

*the stress of dealing with my former neurologist

*vigorous exercise and exceeding my limits (literally what the former neurologist told me to do, not that I was self-destructive enough to do so on *purpose*)

*high blood pressure/low blood pressure

*nitrites (prob worst migraine ever was after making a big effort to eat more rey laroly and buying a bunch of tasty tasty smoked meat, cheese, pickles. Omfg. I had no idea prior to that that food could be a trigger for me. The Sense of Impending Doom thing? I got it in a big way (and then threw up so hard I was healing from petichiae on my eyeballs for *weeks*).

*methotrexate >:(

[jesse_the_k]

Fabulous! I can't highlight my favorites because the whole is more awesome than the sum of its parts.

[jazzyjj]

I think the other one here that stands out for me is coffee, or caffeine in general. One of my neighbors drinks coffee like it's going out of stock, and I keep telling him nicely to just plain quit coffee because he has epilepsy and I've never had to respond to someone having a seizure. But he is going to start giving talks about epilepsy during our weekly apartment meetings, which I am super excited about. He says that people who have epilepsy are fond of coffee, and I guess that's believable. Everybody else keeps telling him to quit coffee for good, which is really the reason I keep telling him to do that. So I'm a bit confused here. He says that quitting coffee and quitting smoking are 2 totally different animals, and we have a downstairs neighbor who smokes. I wonder if brain fog just sometimes plays a role in this? I don't know the true answer to that as I've never had brain fog. Well actually, a slight learning disability but no brain fog as far as I know.