#migraines

[spandexbutterfly4lyfe]

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

#migraines #migraine symptoms #disability #disability stuff #disability pride

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

i think everyone who's ever had migraines should be financially compensated forever btw

#camera talks #disability stuff #this is for my chronic migraine girlies (gn) <3 #i think we should all get 1 million million dollars everyday actually #this is the worst fucking night of my life (everytime i have migraines) (specifically rn tho) #chronic pain #chronic migraine #migraines #chronically ill #disabled

[riddledem0n]

Yesterday the 12th of May was Fibromyalgia awareness day. I'm a little late uploading it, but spreading awareness is being done nonetheless. Lots of love for my chronic pain people!! <3

#fibromyalgia #fibromyalgia awareness #chronic illness #chronic pain #disabled #disability #disabled artist #chronic fatigue #chronic fatigue syndrome #hidden disability #invisible disability #spoonie #chronic migraine #migraines #artist

[teaboot]

Every time I have to leave work for an ocular migraine it feels like I'm telling a really bad lie but it's straight up like this

#Doodleboot #Migraines #Ocular migraine

[katy-l-wood]

Okay, so here's the sequence of events:

Bought a decorative barometer for my office in a fit of ADHD-must-buy-something boredom.

Thanks to decorative barometer, I start to realize that my migraines seem to be triggered more by high pressure than low, which is opposite how it works for a lot of people.

Winter rolls around.

My office is cold.

Put space heater in office and curtain over office door to heat office but not the whole apartment, but also allow the cats easy access to their litterbox.

Discover that this configuration SIGNIFICANTLY drops the pressure in my office compared to the rest of the apartment, no matter what the weather is doing.

Realize I have turned my office into something of an anti-migraine or at least migraine-reduction box.

Celebrate?

Today is the first day I've really been able to test this system out, despite suspecting it for a couple weeks. I woke up with a migraine that has gotten progressively worse throughout the day, but I have been working in the livingroom rather than the office because I needed more room.

Finally the migraine got to the point I couldn't really work anymore, and the Ibuprofen wasn't doing shit, so I wandered back into my office and turned on the space heater to drop the pressure so I could see what would happen.

It got better within MINUTES.

It is far from gone, but I no longer feel like I'm getting stabbed in the head either, so. I'm calling it a win. And I'm just gonna...nap on the floor now or something.

#Migraine #Migraines

[alexbrushes]

To all my fellow migraine sufferers 

#psyduck #pokémon #pokemon art #fanart #pokemon fanart #kawaii #cute art #migraines

[shiftythrifting]

Shifty Aches and Maladies collection!

#lactose intolerance #gluten intolerance #migraines #bad genes #disabled queer shit designed by disabled queers #Didi is very much feeling her maladies today #ilu guys #our merch

[dragonpyre]

I'm a chronic migraine Jason Todd truther. Except he doesn't know they're migraines. Poor guy will be layed up on his couch for days wondering what wizard he pissed off cuz light hurts, sounds hurt, he thinks he's gonna throw up, his vision doesn't work right, and also there's an invisible rail spike driving itself into his skull. Then his thinks it's a Pit side affect or some other weird thing.

But no. It's just migraines

#they're triggered by his general PTSD and stress #and YES this is me projecting onto my blorbo #shut up #i just think he should have some mundane bullshit that's easily fixable #like just take some excedrin bro #jason todd #dc #red hood #migraines #batman #text post

[moviehealthcommunity]

Happy to report that Barbie has very minimal use of any strobe-type effects beyond some glittering sequins in an early party scene!

Our detailed evaluation of Barbie will be available on our Patreon page at Patreon.com/MovieHealth later tonight, and on Facebook and Tumblr on Tuesday.

#actually epileptic #photosensitive epilepsy #seizures #migraines #Warner Bros. #Barbie #Margot Robbie #Ryan Gosling #Greta Gerwig

[thebibliosphere]

So, I found a b2 supplement I can take and not react to the fillers (Thorne brand, not sponsored), and after taking it for a month, I've noticed it does seem to have an effect on my migraines.

I'm still getting 1-3 migraines a month when my hormones fluctuate, but I have noticed a significant reduction in pain since I started taking the b2. Brain fog is still a nightmare (see Migraine Daddy post 😂), but the pain is more of a normal headache and not dropping me to the floor.

Supposedly you don't see significant results until you've been on a high dose of b2 for about 3-4 months (my neurologist suggested 400mg), but given that I am actually deficient in b2 thanks to my MCAS, fixing the deficiency seems to be helping by itself.

So who knows, maybe in a few months, I'll see better results.

I know I really need to be taking a methylated B complex at this point, but they all have biotin in them, and any increase in my biotin intake just makes me sick as a dog. I thought at first it was because it was a histamine liberator, but so is methyl folate/folic acid and I've been able to tolerate that okay. Idk. Bodies are weird.

#chronic health tag #MCAS #migraines #not sponsored #I hate that I have to add that #but every time I mention a med or supplement I take someone asks if I'm sponsored #like this is instagram lol

[something-existing-somewhere]

Nothing like being tired constantly from all my illnesses and being like "why am I tired??" every. single. day.

#chronic pain #actually mentally ill #fibromyalgia #aroace agender #chronic illness #actually disabled #chronic disability #chronic fatigue #disability #spoonie #mentally exhausted #migraines

[hoothootmotherf-ckers]

also, fuck the concept of pain scales and incapacitating pain and any of that shit that’s fucking relative, because I keep feeling like I’m faking whenever people are like “oh wow my cousin gets like knocked out from migraines, I’m amazed you’re at work!” 

and it’s like. 

man I wish I could be home, I wish I could treat this pain as unbearable, I wish I could curl up in a ball forever and not deal with the world

but the idea of what is or is not incapacitating becomes really fucking blurry when I have a job and rent and need to eat and do the basic necessities to live my life

and I’ve had a migraine nonstop for six days.

I cannot fucking afford for any level of pain to be incapacitating.

#Migraines #migraine #chronic pain #chronic illness #I am real fucking mad tonight folks #it is not a good time #ok to rb cuz I am definitely not the only one feeling this

[bellarkeselection]

Best Solution to a Headache

Y/n and Cole are best friends and dating. Y/n always gets migraines but this time the reader is in so much pain where she’s just being clingy and cuddly to Cole

Walking through the school hallway I tried to not bump into too many people since it would only make the pain in my head feel worse. My backpack was hanging over one shoulder when I bumped into somebody at the same time a sharp pain rang through head. “Hey, watch it.” The kid snapped at me where we tripped onto the tile ground.

I scramble to my feet trying to grab my stuff right before I caught sight of a familiar wave of blonde hair coming through the crowd. “Hey chill out man. It was an accident. Y/n, you okay?” He asked me offering me his hand helping me to my feet.

“Thanks Cole…ohh!” I winced covering my forehead with my free hand closing my eyes briefly.

His eyes focused on mine. “Here let’s get you somewhere else. So what’s wrong with your head. Is it the migraines again?” He draped his arm over my shoulder holding me close while we moved through the crowd and found an empty staircase sitting down on the steps.

“Yeah…it feels like my head is splitting so bad.” I groaned laying my head on his chest with his arm still draped over my shoulder.

Cole whispers running his fingers through my hair knowing that sometimes helps the migraine go away or not be as painful for me. “I’m sorry, baby.” Cole and I had just recently started dating each other a few months ago. But before that we have been best friends our whole lives. Erin was picking on me saying one day that she didn’t understand what Cole saw in me as a friend. He didn’t like hearing that and that moment he realized he didn’t want anyone else but you in his life.

“I just want to crawl up with you. The pain hasn’t ever been this bad and my medication isn’t helping very much.” I moaned shifting my body so my head was laying in his lap and he kept running his fingers through my hair.

He didn’t like that you felt this way and he couldn’t really do anything about it since you were at school. He had some of your medicine at his house. I had told him about my migraine when they started happening when we were in our first year of middle school. I got them from my mother since she occasionally got them too. “How about we get out of here and I take you home for the day?”

“You mean skip school. Cole, I can’t miss English we have a paper due in a few weeks.” I tried to explain covering my eyes with my hands feeling some more pain come when I attempted to sit upright.

He shakes his head making his blonde hair fall in front of his eyes. “I don’t care about that. Besides you don’t look like you are in any position to go sit through anymore classes. We are going home.”

“What about your siblings and Jackie. They’ll need a ride home.” I questioned him slowly sitting up when he got to his feet.

He tugs me up to stand with him. “I’ll tex Alex that I might be late picking them up.”

“If you say so, Cole.” I replied looping my hand through his and together we slowly walked out of the school backdoor to his truck. We drove to my house and I used my key since my parents were at work and wouldn’t be home until like five tonight.

Shutting the door gently I winced just wanting to lay down. I stumbled to the couch grabbing a blanket and just covering myself with it. Cole dropped our bags at the door grabbing some pain meds from the bathroom cabinet before coming to sit with me. “Are you feeling better now?” He asked softly once I take the medicine with some water.

“Yes much better…” I trailed off snuggling into his embrace. He wrapped his arms around my waist after getting underneath the cover.

Cole smiled laying his head on top of my head just holding me in silence for a minute. He wouldn’t ever say it out loud to others but he couldn’t imagine you not being in his life. “That’s good. I’m glad you agreed with my idea.”

“Cause otherwise you’d be worried about me all day but never show it on your face.” I responded lifting my head slightly so I could stare into his bright green eyes.

He leans down kissing my forehead when I lay my head back down in the crook of his neck falling asleep. “You’re darn right, darling.” He closes his eyes falling asleep with you cuddled up in his arms.

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#cole walter x reader #cole walter #cole walter imagines #noah lalonde #mlwtwb #my life with the walter boys #migraines #wattpad request #ask box is open for anything #comments really appreciated

[earlgraytay]

I really want to make a PSA about flashing lights but it turns out the lingo about all the conditions that make you sensitive to flashing lights is different enough that it's going to be a pain in the ass to research properly

and if I make it on here I won't reach the people I need to reach, aka fucking youtubers I like who keep using glitch effects

(like. they call it photosensitive epilepsy. but the exact same thing wrt migraine is called photophobia and a lot of doctors will write it off as psychological? and in common medical parlance photosensitivity means "michael jackson skin condition"? ??? ?)

anyway uh tldr high contrast light pulses hurt a lot of people, it's not just the kind of flashing lights that you might think of when you think of an Epilepsy Seizure Warning,

this site has a good overview of common photosensitive epilepsy triggers - it can be something as simple as "sunlight on water hitting the wrong way" or "light through Venetian blinds that hits wrong".

any set of flashing lights that flickers more than 5 times a second, has high contrast (white on black, white on a vibrant colour), or flashes rapidly can trigger an epileptic seizure. they can also trigger migraines for some people.

another psa: seizures don't look the same for everyone. you probably know what a tonic-clonic/grand mal seizure looks like. but for some people, flashing lights trigger milder seizures. this can look like a Sudden Feeling Of Doom, a clenched jaw, random body jerks and twitches, an out of body experience, or a bad taste in your mouth. obviously if you think you're having seizures get your ass to a neurologist, don't take the advice of a stranger on the internet as gospel, but... yeah.

please for the love of god stop using strobe lights, glitch effects, TV static effects, and other flashing lights without slapping a trigger warning on there. you will be helping more people than you know.

@vaspider @thebibliosphere if you could reblog this so that more people can see, that'd be lovely.

#epilepsy #epileptic seizures #photosensitivity #migraines #migraine #psa #discussion of flashing lights not the lights themselves

[smoov-criminal]

hot take but websites/apps/browsers not having a dark mode setting is a form of structural ableism. bright ass screens can be a trigger for migraines, seizures, and a whole host of other bad symptoms. people deserve to browse the internet without having to burn their corneas out

#disability #cpunk #cripple punk #ableism #dark mode #light sensitivity #migraines #seizures

[tansdiary]

anyone suffering from headaches or migraines, do try this playlist. i always knew about frequency music but never tried it out, and what a loss! i wish i had tried it out sooner since i suffer from headaches every day, but the music truly calmed my senses, and i feel a lot better today than i usually do. i hope it helps you too. also, please seek help from a professional, if you can. you deserve a life full of peace, not pain.

[kindly reblog and help a soul out. headaches are terrible and painful, and i hope no one has to go through them every single second of their life]

#mental health #headache #migraine #chronic illness #chronic pain #medication #migraines #self help #self care #infj #bpd #overthinking #depression #mental illness #therapy #music #anxiety #health #wellbeing #stress #pain