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[telophase]

Migraine link to faulty gene.

(Using icon in honor of the link; I'm actually quite fine today. Yay.)

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[jonquil]

I participated in a study like this in the 1980s; both my parents and I have them. (We'd be even more of a gold mine now that it's both my parents, my husband, me, and our son.)

No auras, though.

[telophase]

Conversely, I'm the first person in my family that we know of to get them. If it's genetically linked, I wonder if it's a mutation?

I don't get auras, either, although there are occasionally warning signs: sleep troubles possibly, although I'm unsure if they're a cause or effect of the migraines, and before I got my new glasses, if I went into a store that had lots of tiny things on display and florescent lighting, like a craft store, my visual system being overloaded was a sign that I was most likely going to be getting a migraine in the next day or so (but again: cause or effect?).

[jonquil]

Fluorescent lights are a trigger for many, many people with migraines. Flickers in general are bad news -- for some people, even light filtered through tree leaves! I can't stand venetian blinds. And so on.

[telophase]

They haven't consistently triggered migraines for me, but they do make them worse (or at least I'm a lot more sensitive to florescent lights when having one). Anything that's projective light instead of reflective is the same - i.e. computer monitors aggravate them while the Kindle doesn't.

[jonquil]

I have had less trouble -- I *think*-- since computers switched to LCDs from LEDs. I worry sometimes that long-term exposure to screens all day is a trigger, but I can't bear to find out, just as with gluten. I've given up too much. (whine, whine)

[kore]

'I have had less trouble -- I *think*-- since computers switched to LCDs from LEDs'

Me too, definitely.

[ashenmote]

I got full migraines as a kid, ever since I just get the auras without the migraine. Until recently I thought that makes me a complete, unheard-of brain freak, but now I finally stumbled over an article that mentioned that people with auras without migraine follow-up exist.

[telophase]

I've heard of that - I think I came across them in Oliver Sacks' Migraine. That book convinced me that there's just about nothing I won't believe about migraines.

[lady_ganesh]

I do that sometimes! And sometimes migraines without auras.

[ashenmote]

Migraine without aura is pretty much the most common migraine, but I don't know how common it is to hop around between migraine with aura, aura without migraine & migraine without aura. I don't even know if it's even legal to do that.

[lady_ganesh]

Me neither, but it's never stopped my brain.

[arcly.livejournal.com]

Interesting, although I'd probably be more interested if anyone at all in my family apart from me had ever had a migraine, which they haven't. I've just had practically an entire fortnight of them, including a rather spectacular 72-hour number that I thought would never ever go. But I also am okay today! Also yay. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm the first one in my family to get them also, which makes me wonder if mine are genetically related, like a recessive gene or a mutation, or if they're something else entirely.