Posts filed under “Migraine”
Something is wrong with your arm
Migraines are amazing. Partner’s arm looks like it has 17 joints and I can’t stand up. Reading and texting abilities mostly OK.
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expose/pose
Psychological explanations of migraine remain an extraordinarily popular trope in self-help books for migraine care. Take, for example, the most popular self-help book on this topic, Heal Your Headache: The 1.2.3 Program, by David Buchholz, a neurologist from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Buchholz recommends a strict treatment protocol for migraine prevention, which includes the […]
Three Dozen Migraine Susceptibility Loci Uncovered in Large Meta-Analysis
Three Dozen Migraine Susceptibility Loci Uncovered in Large Meta-Analysis Nice writeup of this meta analysis in Nature. If you don’t want to do the free registration to read the genomeweb piece, they 38 loci (loci = spot in the genome) associated with migraine, including 28 that had never been found before. A couple interesting things […]
Migraine Art #082 by Migraine Art Via Flickr: From new book Migraine Art by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson
[I]n 1973, Seymour Diamond and Donald Dalessio, then codirectors of the famous Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, wrote that the inability of people with migraine to adapt represents the repressed hostility of the migraine patient. Joanna Kempner in Not Tonight I am actually pretty angry about having a painful and debilitating disease that most people […]
June migraine log
A graph of my migraines over the last few years. July 2016 data thru day 12. Severity continues to decline, but frequency doesn’t seem to be budging much. The number of days with migraine looked like it was starting to go down before June – which was when I started my gradual ramp-up of work. […]