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RE: How knitting and crochet helps to cope with pain and depression
Oh man, migraines are AWFUL. I'm so glad knitting and crochet helps you! I get ocular migraines that don't hurt mostly, but every now and then a painful one hits. Luckily for me, caffeine helps mine, so I fire up the moka pot and get some espresso in me and it helps! I couldn't imagine dealing with them for days at a time! 😵
I have never heard of ocular migraines (and I believe all migraines are sooooo unnecessary!!!) Good that caffeine helps you, I always try it out before taking stronger things, but mine are unimpressed with the caffeine... mäh.
And yes, these lasting migraines are so 💩 Sometimes I think the experience of migraines which last so long frightened me so much, that the negative emotions alone are enough to worsen the next migraine (or perhaps it’s simply superstition)
Thank you for sharing your experience with migraines, that always helps 💕💕
No one can blame you for feeling dread when one starts!
Ocular migraines for me are like having flash bulbs go off in my vision. Sometimes big camera flashes and sometimes little Xmas lights, but always flashing lights.
I call the ocular ones starry migraines, all migraines suck so much. I mostly get lightning jags of holographic stars across my vision and need to be in a very dark room to get any relief. Mine are often set off by weather changes, especially pressure changes before storm fronts.
I've never noticed a correlation with weather change,I'll have to pay attention to that!
@jamethiel and @phoenixwren perhaps you already know this, but in case that not:
the migraine world summit is currently taking place and the daily lectures are for free. After this summit you must pay for them. Today is a lecture about visual effects of migraines
https://www.migraineworldsummit.com/public-2018-kathleen-digre/
You have to register and then you receive a daily link for the lectures.
I did not know if you are on discord (I would have written privatly)
I'm not on Discord and didn't know about this, so thanks! ☺