Just wondering.......

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

Such vivid imagery!

Looks like I'd better be careful of my word choices and phrasing.

Dreamer

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

around here ? oh boy, you have no idea...

Originally Posted by slayda

Was the test that good for you?

This thread ----

Shows the perfection of the Lounge as a place to meet and chat...One minute serious, the next 3 descending into banality with a twist of lemon to stop it getting too sweet...and then back into serious...what a roller-coaster....

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Although not a trigger for me, anything containing capsaicin (chillis, capsicum, etc) can often be a partial or total relief (a good Thai curry works well at this juncture). I've been known to swig a large tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce for relief, after all the usual drugs have failed. I remember reading in the New Scientist article that blood pressure can strongly be associated with migraine, so the effect of capsaicin (positive or negative) doesn't surprise me.

There are people here who will be shocked and distraught by the "chocolate" reference. Oddly, in the last couple of years, chocolate has become a trigger for me where it wasn't before (white chocolate is less so, though too much sugar can also be a trigger).



I've never noted any seafood connection, though my awareness of triggers is not thorough. I'll have to start making a migraine diary though, as they've been coming back where they'd previously left me in peace for at least a month at a time.



I once got my head stuck for 15 minutes between the railings of a railway overpass.



Tee hee. Very good.



Dennis, meet gutter; gutter, Dennis.

Cheers,
Marc

I too have migraines, and I've also done a lot of research on them. For what it's worth .... migraine triggers are very individual, and can change over a lifetime.

So, the docs generally recommend that you try to remember what you ate over the prior 48 hours and keep track to see if there are any food items that might be your triggers.

I am lucky that (so far) I have no food triggers at all. Mine seem to be triggered if I let my blood sugar drop too low. So, I sort of graze the whole day.

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

This thread ----

Shows the perfection of the Lounge as a place to meet and chat...One minute serious, the next 3 descending into banality with a twist of lemon to stop it getting too sweet...and then back into serious...what a roller-coaster....

Beware. There are stallions and steak knives behind each curve. And the final coast back home is not an exit to safety and tranquility but a hijacking into the next episode of.....

[nekokami]

It has only been recently that I have suspected that what I have are migraines. Low blood sugar is a trigger, as is dehydration, and the nastiness seems to actually start in my turbinates and sinuses, so airborn allergies contribute. There is also a cyclical hormonal trigger.

Oddly enough, chocolate and caffeine both seem to help me, as do nasal decongestants.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by nekokami

It has only been recently that I have suspected that what I have are migraines. Low blood sugar is a trigger, as is dehydration, and the nastiness seems to actually start in my turbinates and sinuses, so airborn allergies contribute. There is also a cyclical hormonal trigger.

Oddly enough, chocolate and caffeine both seem to help me, as do nasal decongestants.

My SO is subject to sinus headaches, and those can trigger migraines.

Coffee helps in a migraine, because it's a vaso-constrictor. She doesn't like coffee, so if she asks for a cup, I know why.
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Dennis

[nekokami]

Coffee, or caffeine? (I usually have tea.)

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Coffee, or caffeine? (I usually have tea.)

Coffee. She drinks tea constantly. Hot tea helps the sinuses and helps prevent them from triggering migraines, but doesn't help the migraines themselves.
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Dennis

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

My SO is subject to sinus headaches, and those can trigger migraines.

Coffee helps in a migraine, because it's a vaso-constrictor. She doesn't like coffee, so if she asks for a cup, I know why.
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Dennis

And yet, for a lot of people, caffeine can be a migraine trigger. Go figure.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

This thread ----

Shows the perfection of the Lounge as a place to meet and chat...One minute serious, the next 3 descending into banality with a twist of lemon to stop it getting too sweet...and then back into serious...what a roller-coaster....

In other words it's your typical conversation between a lot of very intelligent (and well read) people.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

In other words it's your typical conversation between a lot of very intelligent (and well read) people.

I used to moderate an electronic forum devoted to SF. Topic drift was both frequent and expected, and I made little effort to direct it. I viewed the forum as the electronic equivalent of the SF conventions I attend and help to plan and run. People at those gathering can and do talk about everything. I just treated them like Little Bo Peep's lost sheep - "leave them alone and they'll come home, wagging their tales behind them", and so they did.
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Dennis

[zelda_pinwheel]

yeah... so wait, *what* were we talking about ?

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

I used to moderate an electronic forum devoted to SF. Topic drift was both frequent and expected, and I made little effort to direct it. I viewed the forum as the electronic equivalent of the SF conventions I attend and help to plan and run. People at those gathering can and do talk about everything. I just treated them like Little Bo Peep's lost sheep - "leave them alone and they'll come home, wagging their tales behind them", and so they did.
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Dennis

Yeah .... personally, I don't much care for forums (actually, isn't it "fora"?? my Latin stinks) where the rules are too rigidly applied.

If every post has to be as dull as dishwater (oh ... gotta put that one in the list of colloquialisms) and always directly on point, no one gets to make friends.

I actually pulled out of Kindle Korner, although I think all of my posts were helpful .... but, for the life of me, I could NOT remember to sign my damn posts. I'm just too used to having an automatic signature. So, on my second warning .... I just said WTF, and pulled the plug on my membership.

That's the sort of thing that reminds me of those few teachers I had growing up who would beat you down with a ruler if you did anything creative. I actually had a few fingers broken by one with whom I bumped heads about my handwriting. That was 3rd grade ... I didn't WANT my handwriting to look like the stuff up on the board ... I WANTED IT TO LOOK DIFFERENT.

It does look different now ... in fact it's horrible, but I figured they invented computers just for me. I'm just glad my fingers healed such that I can type. (And no .... I never rated the teacher out, so no, I never went to the doctor to have the fingers set. I just hid my hands from my mother until the swelling went down. And so they are just a bit "tweaked" looking.)

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Yeah .... personally, I don't much care for forums (actually, isn't it "fora"?? my Latin stinks) where the rules are too rigidly applied.

I moderated an assortment of technical forums on the same source, and was a little more active about topic drift. People were on the forums to exchange information on certain subjects, and I tried to keep the signal to noise ratio fairly high. It was also in the days before The Internet Ate the World, and broadband was uncommon. The message traffic got passed around over land lines by dial up modems, so traffic volume that wasn't pertinent was discouraged.

If every post has to be as dull as dishwater (oh ... gotta put that one in the list of colloquialisms) and always directly on point, no one gets to make friends.

Not entirely true, but I agree.

I actually pulled out of Kindle Korner, although I think all of my posts were helpful .... but, for the life of me, I could NOT remember to sign my damn posts. I'm just too used to having an automatic signature. So, on my second warning .... I just said WTF, and pulled the plug on my membership.

I like forums where you can define one and have it applied automatically.
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Dennis

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Not entirely true, but I agree.
Dennis

Hey, as long as you agree with me .... that's all that really counts ... right??

[slayda]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Yeah .... personally, I don't much care for forums (actually, isn't it "fora"?? my Latin stinks) where the rules are too rigidly applied.

If the rules were rigidly applied it would be fora but here we usually just say forums. I think the common man is taking over what is acceptably. Remember that the word "vulgar" used to mean "common".