#headaches

[stillfuckingtired]

Me lying down: I feel pretty much fine. What am I doing lying around? I should get up and do something. Or at least sit upright, damn.

Me when I’m upright: oh, Jesus. Oh, damn. Oh, RIGHT—this is why I was lying down.

[inber]

If you are a fellow migraine sufferer, I have to recommend this gel compression mask. The gel is legit thick and the compression is just right on the eyeballs/orbs/limpid hues, and it helps my sensory issues, too. I don't usually refrigerate it, the bitch just stays cool. It's the best one I've tried.

Bonus: you also look like a falcon wearing a hood

It's also on cramazon if you want and probably other places if you search for 'myhalos migraine mask'. I can't vouch for any of their other products tho, just the sexy hat. Wishing you all a pain-free head babes x

[teaboot]

Okay so I may have been struggling under a miscommunication issue

When do YOU call a headache a migraine?

I use headache and migraine interchangeably

When it hurts like a papercut, consistently

When it hurts like a stubbed toe, consistently

When it hurts like touching a hot pan, consistently

When it hurts like a hot pan, and another symptom (vision loss, throwing up)

When I cannot walk/move/think, or pain is/symptoms are disabling

Never had a migraine/Don't know/Other

Voting ended onAug 1, 2024

[kiricumber]

[headpainmigraine]

If there's anything I'd like people to take away from this Migraine Awareness Month its

that a migraine isnt a severe headache

It's a complex neurological disorder

Its a cascade of neurological activity in an over sensitised brain, the main symptom of which is usually a severe headache.

It is disabling, especially when it's chronic (15 days a month, at least 8 of those with migrainous symptoms, for over 3 months)

[antiadvil]

Pet peeve: when people say “migraine isn’t just a headache” then say “because when I get a migraine I feel like my brain is being crushed by a truck and also stabbed with an icepick” like. You just described a headache. That’s a pain in your head. That’s a headache. A very, very bad headache, but a headache. There’s no threshold where pain in your head stops being a headache. The reason migraine is more than just a headache is because of the other symptoms that can accompany it— sensory sensitivities, brain fog and fatigue, nausea, aura, prodrome/postdrome symptoms, etc. Headache is just one of many migraine symptoms, and you can still have migraine even if your headaches aren’t particularly severe (there are even some types of migraine that come without headaches at all)

[karihighman]

Grey knows how this feels 🤣