Archive for July, 2016

Retirement: probably not going to happen

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Retirement calculators suggest I need to be saving 75% of my current annual income to be prepared for retirement. That’s not remotely possible at my income level. A minimum wage worker with full time hours in my situation would need to save 42% of their income. Someone making the living wage for my area would […]

Catch

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When you have to eat fresh, unprocessed food or risk triggering a migraine attack, but you are frequently and unpredictably* unable to cook or eat for days at a time because of migraine attacks. * I say unpredictably, but I suspect a strong correlation with the day I need to cook something or it starts […]

A few kinds of visual disturbance common with migraine aura

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Most of the time at least part of my visual field is continuous TV-static-like tiny flickering dots. Sometimes it expands to cover my entire visual field. This is officially called visual snow. I always thought it was part of my migraines. Perhaps it is. But it turns out that visual snow can occur independently of […]

GLP-2 and leptin are associated with hyperinsulinemia in non-obese female migraineurs.

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GLP-2 and leptin are associated with hyperinsulinemia in non-obese female migraineurs. Hyperinsulinemia is a condition in which there are excess levels of insulin circulating in the blood relative to the level of glucose. While it is often mistaken for diabetes or hyperglycaemia, hyperinsulinemia can result from a variety of metabolic diseases and conditions. [wikipedia] Typically, […]