I am vindicated!

[telophase]

There *is* such a thing as a mini-migraine, according to a neurologist from the Mayo Clinic in one of the NYTimes medical blog posts in a series on migraine.

I mean, I was 99 44/100% sure that I was experiencing mini-migraines, where the pain was very low, instead of regular headaches, but it's nice to see a doctor confirming it. And I've just come out of one that started sometime before I woke up yesterday. :D (Thunderstorm yesterday, possibly associated with it?)

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[kore]

Oh dude, I get minimigraines (used to call them 'baby migraines') all the time, with the nausea and slight dizziness and vertigo and headaching &c &c, but I take a bunch of Advil (Vitamin I!) and that kills them. Like the doc says in the article, it can be very difficult to ascertain the difference between a minimigraine and the _beginning_ of a full-fledged Mama-said-knock-you-out migraine, so I just tend to treat it aggressively. I think that's the biggest difference between migraineurs and non- : the person who doesn't have migraines regards headaches as nuisances that will go away. For a migraineur a mild headache can be like a funnel cloud way off in the distance.

[telophase]

Previously, I'd figure out they they were mini-migraines because Advil didn't touch them, or reduced the pain a little bit for a little while. Now, post-artificial-sweeteners, Advil often makes them go away! Yesterday's didn't fully go away, but it took it from "annoying nagging headache" to "headache I forget I have if I'm focused on something," which is still a world of difference.

And yeah - I'm always nervous it's going to blow up, because if I don't take the Relpax soon enough, it's not very effective.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Yes! I have these much more often than the full-blown variety. Mine come with associated photosensitivity, though. That's why you'll often see me say something about working through a migraine, it's one of these that I'm working through.

In other news, I get to try a different migraine preventative treatment starting tomorrow. Um...whee?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My small ones don't have photosensitivity, but tiredness, sometimes nausea, and irritability are all part of them. And computer screens make them worse.

Fingers crossed it works for you!