shanmonster | Note To Self

Apparently, Magnesium Oxide is effective as both a prophylactic and treatment for migraines. I need to get some and try it out. Here's hoping!

Work has finally slowed down a little, but it's been crazy in here. Everyone was rather shellshocked by the extreme volume of calls, but it's not so bad now. When I went on my first two breaks, I was too frazzled even to read, but I got a bit of reading in on my last break, as well as about five minutes of just breathing in the dark, trying to will my migraine dots away. They bloom like oil spots on water, and float around on the surface of my vision in a similar fashion.

I'm beginning to suspect that my migraines may be caused by the lighting at work. Either that or the stress. I'm not sure which. I've put in a request to be able to wear a hat for a while, to see if that helps, but I'm frankly very doubtful they will allow it. They pride themselves on their clothing rules lawyering, here.

Tonight, I shall be playing Starfarers of Catan. It will be my first gaming night in quite some time. I hope my brain is competent to deal with it!

I've also had another dance performance opportunity open for me, but I'm a bit leery. It's for something called East Coast Women's Expo, and I have the sneaking suspicion they want me to pay to dance there. If this is the case, pffft! As if!

But we shall see....

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what about a glare screen your your comp? It might cut down on the reflective light at least, and they *have* to do that if you ask.

I'll try that too. It might help.

How about sunglasses? Or tinted safety glasses, which would offer more of a wraparound effect. Sure, you'd look weird, but at least you wouldn't have migraines (maybe).

Me afraid of looking weird? Ha! I'll try to hunt down some old man wraparound shades. Mom wears them. She can probably show me wear to get my own pair.

I'm beginning to suspect that my migraines may be caused by the lighting at work.

Do you see the lights that are going to go soon flickering before everyone else can see it?

The lights used to screw me over to, now they just make me prone to Really Bad Headaches instead of migraines.

Do you have any food triggers that you know about? I can't eat peanuts, and any coloured or flavoured chips, crackers or nachos, beyond ready salted and salt and vinegar and a health foods range, and the nachos ingredients are only allowed to say "corn, oil, salt" for me to be able to eat them....

Also, my new type of migraine which is like an epileptic fit except that I'm conscious is triggered by lack of food and sleep. From your LJ it sounds as though you eat quite well though, and you don't strike me as someone who wouldn't take care of their body as well as their mind.

I think there may be a correlation between my migraines and too much sugar, but I don't usually eat a lot of sugary foods (although I did do a bit of baking the other day). A messed-up sleep schedule can also twig it, but I've been sleeping pretty regularly. Oven cleaner will trigger it, too, but I haven't been around the stuff in well over a decade (

f00dave does the oven cleaning).

I do see flickering before other people. I don't notice it in particular at work, but the lights do seem pretty harsh immediately overhead. Very bright light has caused migraines for me in the past. I try to avoid too much sun for this reason. Maybe I'll have to avoid the lights at work, too.

Seconded on the sunglasses idea, especially if you can find ones with polarized lenses. You might have to turn up the brightness on your monitor, though.

(I sympathize; my eyes are so light-sensitive that being out in bright sun feels like someone's driving spikes into my skull through my eyeballs. My latest pair of prescription sunglasses are modeled after the old mountaineering / welding goggles with the leather side-pieces. Being practical, I also had them tinted neutral grey with a blue mirror coating, so that I can use them at the work bench when I'm firing up the big propane torch.)

There were times when wielding the torch caused migraines. Soldering chain did it, for sure. But I suspect that may also have been caused by the fine detail work. I'm very nearsighted.

I Know that Shoppers Drug Mart carries sunglasses that help with driving cutting the glare of both the sun and headlights it feels odd being able to wear them at night at times.

just a thought on the sunglasses one, and they can go over other glasses as well.

The glasses I'm thinking of are huge, honking brown polarized ones which cover the entire top half of my face. They're hideous, but they work.

Yeah, it could be the lighting causing the migraines. I used to get them working as a cashier in a little gas station with a big plate glass window in front of me. Not only was I under fluorescent lights, but when the sun came up it would focus a laser-beam of light at my eyes till I saw an aura of pink around everything. I felt like a fried ant. Nasty. And I've never had migraines SINCE that job so I think my light theory was correct.

As for paying to dance, belly-dancers have ALREADY paid to dance,---costumes aren't free, time practicing invested, etc. Heh, I bellydance too, although I suspect you're better at it. Some other dancers and I were just discussing a dancer's monetary worth the other day. We usually dance for free (although not always) and don't mind that.

Did a little freebie performance at a seniors home the other day. ( A post on that on www.bathtubspider.blogspot.com)

But PAY for the opportunity to dance? Bwahahahah! Unlikely.

Spider-Girl

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