… of being severely disabled by chronic migraine. After 4 months I just feel like screaming. I’m done with this illness, I’m done with the stillness. I just want to be healthy, I just want to be doing the things with my life that I think are worth doing. After 4 months I just feel …
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Brain fog
I thought I knew what brain fog felt like, but a couple of weeks ago it reached a new level. I didn’t just forget things like with normal brain fog (if such a thing exists), I didn’t seem to have any attention span whatsoever.I know most people are familiar with this sense of getting to …
Hypersensitivity
My hair hurts.When it’s wet and heavy after a shower, I can feel the weight of it pull down on my skull and it hurts.That same sensory stimulus, that my brain used to know is irrelevant and filter out from the flurry of background sensations, is now weirdly brought to the forefront of my perception …
More sensory weirdness
Before my migraines became as chronic as they are now – when it is difficult to tell when one migraine ends and the next one starts – I used to get all the clearly defined different stages of a migraine: prodrome, aura, migraine, postdrome. I’ve had migraines since I was a teenager, they occurred about …