I read about a guy who did his own DIY trepanning he described the experience in some detail, I wish I could remember where. I think it might have been pre-interweb in a magazine. It must have been a fairly subversive magazine though...
the Wellcome collection in Euston Road has a skull with I think 4 trepanning holes in: one is totally healed (just a small dent in the skull), two partially and one really not at all, presumably fatal.
You've my sympathy. I've still got the flu that started about this time last week, and I'm still managing to get 2-3 t-shirts wringing wet each night. Fortunately the headache from the first four days has now gone, but I still feel cold and feverish by turns, and now it's developed into a sore throat.
I have to give the induction talk to ~120 CS freshers tomorrow. :(
There seem to be two different sorts of migraine - those that are horrible and last for days, or those that are crippling and last 8-24 hours. Fortunately I'm someone who gets the short lived but extremely painful ones, so taking as many painkillers as I can find, having a swig of alcohol and passing out for 12 hours usually sorts it.
Really have sympathy for people like you who get ones that last for ages... :(
i thought it was late onset hangover yesterday, then developed into psychedelic nightmares and waking up feeling like someone had tried to pull my teeth out through my ears on the deck of a ship in a hurricane
i can actually see now! woohoo!
it's odd, i never had a migraine until a couple of year ago and now i seem to get them once every few months dave says i has teh brainworms
I suddenly started getting migraines about 7 years ago - my triggers tend to be a combination of stress and bright light. I get recognisable symptoms whcih presage migraines and carry migralieve everywhere I go. Are there any constants in what you get?
I'm not sure to be honest. I've not had very many, this is probably about the 6th or 7th. Late nights+stress+too much staring at screens, but then that's every day! ;)
A couple of times I've thought it might be a very late onset hangover, which then spirals into migraine with aura for about 24 hours or so.
Does migralieve work any better than normal painkillers? Ibuprofen and paracetamol don't seem to do a great deal other than stop the stingyness.
Never take normal painkillers like aspirin - they just make things worse! Things like Migralieve are designed for migraines as the mechanisms for a migraine and a normal headache are different. Migralieve is so good I once wrote a letter to Pfizer thenking them for making them, as I went through a phase a few years ago of having a migraine every day and I think I would have lost my marbles without them.
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Date: 2008-10-02 10:51 pm (UTC)3/4 ain't bad
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Date: 2008-10-02 11:01 pm (UTC)the earth spirits did not want the fourth one to live, and no one objected to the excellent soup we made out of his thigh.
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Date: 2008-10-02 06:17 pm (UTC)I have to give the induction talk to ~120 CS freshers tomorrow. :(
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Date: 2008-10-02 07:38 pm (UTC)could go with the "hey look a monkey!!!" speech?
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Date: 2008-10-02 08:08 pm (UTC)There seem to be two different sorts of migraine - those that are horrible and last for days, or those that are crippling and last 8-24 hours. Fortunately I'm someone who gets the short lived but extremely painful ones, so taking as many painkillers as I can find, having a swig of alcohol and passing out for 12 hours usually sorts it.
Really have sympathy for people like you who get ones that last for ages... :(
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Date: 2008-10-02 10:54 pm (UTC)i can actually see now! woohoo!
it's odd, i never had a migraine until a couple of year ago and now i seem to get them once every few months
dave says i has teh brainworms
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Date: 2008-10-03 08:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-03 08:59 am (UTC)A couple of times I've thought it might be a very late onset hangover, which then spirals into migraine with aura for about 24 hours or so.
Does migralieve work any better than normal painkillers? Ibuprofen and paracetamol don't seem to do a great deal other than stop the stingyness.
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Date: 2008-10-03 09:37 am (UTC)Things like Migralieve are designed for migraines as the mechanisms for a migraine and a normal headache are different.
Migralieve is so good I once wrote a letter to Pfizer thenking them for making them, as I went through a phase a few years ago of having a migraine every day and I think I would have lost my marbles without them.
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Date: 2008-10-03 12:16 pm (UTC)i actually do feel like i am losing my marbles when i get a real doozy
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Date: 2008-10-02 10:52 pm (UTC)no actually, not sure I want the surrey bit
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Date: 2008-10-03 12:12 pm (UTC)sounds marvellous by the way, maybe I should give in to my not-very-latent transvestite urges
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