#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

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[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)

[fir-bag]

So, continuing the trend of wacky health things Fir’s got going on…

For the first 2 days after my surgery I was grappling a terrible migraine. Bear in mind, I don’t get migraines. Ever. Those of you who have these things regularly?? Omg, you have my complete respect and all my love! That was godawful. I couldn’t sit up, couldn’t even think. They were wanting me to stand and move about the room and I couldn’t even open my eyes.

But my doctor was stumped because it was an unusual reaction, especially when I’d never had one before. We finally figured out it was a positional headache, or spinal headache. Basically a small knick when they did my spinal tap (like an epidural), caused my spinal fluid to leak. Every time I sat up the rush of fluid away from my head brought on the migraine. They performed a blood patch to fix it, which sounds way more icky than it actually is. They take a small amount of your own blood (in my case, from my hand) and inject into the epidural space of your spine. The blood creates a clot that seals the tear, and stops the spinal fluid leak.

The outcome was an immediate, 100% improvement. It was like night and day! With that healed, I could finally focus on recovering from the actual surgery.

And that’s when I felt the literal pain in my ass, but that’s another story. 🥴😆