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Posts filed under “Migraine”

Migraine snacks

Posted by sarcozona on July 19, 2016. No comments.

Practical pain scales

Posted by sarcozona on July 19, 2016. No comments.

Well enough to boil an egg; sick enough to cry about how hard it is.

I’m well, thanks.

Posted by sarcozona on July 18, 2016. No comments.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Migraine by philippe dagand

Posted by sarcozona on July 17, 2016. No comments.

Migraine by philippe dagand Via Flickr

Disquiet

Posted by sarcozona on July 17, 2016. No comments.

My head and the whole universe ache. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via heureun)

Priorities

Posted by sarcozona on July 16, 2016. 4 comments.

I’ve read more papers on my illness than I have on my PhD topic. I’m never going to graduate, am I?

Posted by on July 16, 2016. No comments.

Headache medicine’s problems with legitimacy persist despite the “discovery” of a neurobiological mechanism underlying migraine. For while the emphasis on the brain does somewhat mitigate migraine’s association with psychosomatic, feminized personalities, locating migraine in the brain also managed to inscribe gendered cultural assumptions about the personalities of headache patients into the physical structure of their […]