Posts filed under “Migraine”
Music for your doctor forbidding you the only drugs that help your migraines because you need your kidneys
Well that was no fun
My migraines have not been getting better. And I’m going to have to take back what I said last month about having less painful migraines. I ended up in the ER recently unable to eat or hardly speak. I’d really like to work on my PhD and write Christmas cards and leave my fucking house […]
Cefaly and migraine
Having migraine really sucks, and I’ll try just about anything to deal with this illness. One of the things I tried recently is the Cefaly, a scifi looking device I previously mocked. A lot of people seemed to be finding relief with it and a couple agencies had verified that it wouldn’t hurt me. After […]
A few good hours
Lately my migraines are rarely terrible, soul-crushingly painful events. But I am almost never completely pain or symptom free. Yesterday was the first day in weeks that I had a solid chunk of time with no migraine symptoms. I wrote the introduction to two of my proposal chapters, the methods for one chapter, did some […]
Where does the time go?
What if you only had half the time to do a PhD?
I have a post up about some strategies for doing a PhD when illness is eating all your time over on Tenure, She Wrote.
August migraine data
I had a shit ton of migraines in August. Fortunately by taking a triptan (relpax seems to work better than others for me) and/or 800mg ibuprofen & 1000mg tylenol when I get a migraine, I can usually guarantee that I’m not in extraordinary pain. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean I’m well enough to work. Migraines make […]