Posts filed under “Migraine”
What’s a grad student worth?
I have a post up today on Tenure, She Wrote about structural financial barriers in academia for chronically ill graduate students. If a worker is less productive, should they be paid less? This is not an abstract question for me. As a sick graduate student, I take longer to produce academic products like papers and […]
What is an aura?
For years I didn’t think I had aura with my migraine attacks because the way doctors described it wasn’t the way I experienced in terms of symptoms, timing, and duration. If you have weird experiences before or during your migraine, it’s likely you have aura, too. Check out this nice little descriptive study to get […]
No shit, Sherlock
perhaps the personality and behavioural features thought to be characteristic of migraine may instead be related to the experience of chronic pain One of the few reasonable sentences in this fucked up paper. Doctors and researchers want to blame patients for their own migraines so badly.
Migraine is all up in your metabolism
Investigating the role of adipokines in chronic migraine VERY COOL but quite tentative: this adipokine may be considered as a potential migraine biomarker, since increased levels of adiponectin are found in both EM and CM patients
Bartleby the Scrivener as a model for resisting capitalist destruction of the chronically ill body
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Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome precipitated by airplane descent: Case report Is a less dramatic version of this how barometric pressure change causes migraines?
Mid-August Migraine Log – Too Many Variables Edition
I started a new drug at the end of January – micronor – with the hopes that it would help with the increase in severe migraine attacks I get around my period. I then promptly had 3 periods in 2 months which then dropped off to a happier once every 4-6 weeks schedule. The frequency […]