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Sorry to hear about the migraines. I've only had one about ten years ago when I was drinking a lot of coffee and quit cold turkey. It was brutal.

DW has suffered from migraines for a number of years and they started getting worse in her 30's. She would often need a full day to recover, sometimes two. She started taking magnesium, vitamin B2, and vitamin D3 based on a doctor's recommendation and hasn't had one since last fall. She also makes more of an effort to stay hydrated.

Maybe a nice head massage could help ? With some lavender essential oils.

Paracetamol doesn't work, and strong smells and massages feel horrible during migraines. I don't really see a link with low hydration. Before, i started drinking a lot of water everytime a migraine was starting, but i ended up vomiting most of the water away.
I might be short on some vitamins and magnesium, so that might be something to check.
I have a lot of free time, so migraines rarely conflict with my obligations, i usually just lie down until it goes away.
I find it very interesting that something so common and so incapacitating has no cure and isn't understood at all.

I get migraines but very only very infrequently since I figured out what triggers them for me. One trigger is birth control pills. The other trigger is certain scents - mostly perfume-y type things such as scented candles, scented soaps, scented lotions, cologne, etc. If I feel one starting, sometimes ingesting caffeine immediately can stop it.

Ha - too much caffeine sometimes triggers mine

The tl;dr here seems to be, everyone's unique. Food sensitivities often get mentioned in the same breath as migraines; might be good to try an elimination diet of the common suspects and see if it makes things better

@ertyu, yeah, it's a very mysterious disease.
I'm curious if a massive study coupled with AI could help understand it better.

My theory was that it's a trick the body uses to force the brain to rest and stop eating, but it doesn't really add up.

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Mon May 08, 2023 1:14 am

My theory was that it's a trick the body uses to force the brain to rest and stop eating

I mean if you stop eating, you'll also not be eating whatever there your allergen is, if any, so it's not that far off

I have serious headaches sometimes. I wouldn't call it migraine as I know other people with migraine and they seem to be much more in pain etc., but it is more than just a headache.
In any case, sometimes I can pinpoint the trigger exactly, like not sleeping long enough, don't eat or drink for too long, walking too long in a burning sun etc.
But at most times these kind of things don't trigger the headaches, so in like 1:20 cases or so? Too unreliable to specifically act on.
If I have it, I mostly do nothing, sometimes some light reading, or listening music or so.

Have the migraines improved Jean ?

I haven't had one in a while, but they come in burst.

A high pollen count has given me migraine like symptoms recently. That could be a contributing factor.

ok, it never happened to me. The pollen i'm allergic to are at the highest, so I get hayflu whenewer i go out, but i don't get headache.
Also, i wrote a cover letter whit chat gpt, and have an interview.
My respect for HR just got lower.

Hey good luck with the interview, what type of job would that be and in what majority language part of Switzerland?

it's an engineer job in a bilingual city.

I used to work with a lady from a Swiss bilingual city so might know which city actually. She used to talk at me about horses, nature and related things in Swiss German, I'd learned quite a bit of German this way.

There are three of them, Sierre, Fribourg, and Bienne. I'm in Bienne.

Yep that's where she was from.

The interview was good, the agency dude invited me to show up for the apero.
I think i looked smart and agreable.
The interview was planed from 1400 to 1430, but i arrived at 1345, and left at 1445. It was pleasant, and I am pleased with most of my answer. I'm just worried, because it looks like he doesn't realise I haven't worked for the last 9 years.

I hope you’ll get offered the job!

That would be fun. I don't know what i'll do with the money, maybe get treatment for shity sperm count (i got mine tested, it was very bad, I forget it easyly, because remembering it makes me quite sad).