Adrienne Lavidor-Berman, of Wego Health fame, has been interviewing bloggers for a while. Not exactly a carrier-making move but a great public service. Who amongst you, my gentle readers, would not like to know who's really hiding behind all those neatly arranged words?
She has recently organized the past interviews on one conveniently linked page. If you've missed those articles when they came out, here's your chance to catch up.
Among the interviewed are Megan Oltman, Janet Geddis (the migraine girl), Deborah Scripa, Eileen Gray and, of course, Migraine Chick.
All of them and more on Spotlight Interview Archive
Showing posts with label migraine blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label migraine blog. Show all posts
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Interviews with Your Favorite Migraine Bloggers
Thursday, June 12, 2008
June Edition of Migraine & Headache Blog Carnival
This month it was hosted on one of our favorite migraine-related blogs - The Migraine Girl.
Lots of writers participated with quiet a few of interesting entries - from stress management to yoga to travel tips for chronically ill.
"Surviving the summer and vacation trips" was the main idea behind majority of the articles. Tons of useful and informative posts for anyone with migraine or other types of headaches.
Yours truly, unfortunately, has not participated this time around. A nice article on "5 things migraine people can take advantage of during summer " was outlined but never came to fruition. The reasons being: 1. yours truly is lazy, 2. yours truly did not look at the calendar in time :P.
Well, this particular bit of wisdom :P will have to remain unbeknown to my gentle readers. Maybe next year?
That aside, do check Migraine & Headache Blog Carnival for JUNE! for some good reads.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Pregnant with a Migraine
There's a new writer among our midst I'd like to introduce. Her new blog's name, Preggi with migraine, pretty much explains what it's all about.
"I found out I'm pregnant with a home pregnancy test and confirmed with my doc yesterday that I indeed am knocked up. So this is going to be a 9 month journey for me, my kid and hopefully some future/current moms afflicted with migraines."
She is planning to record for posterity the delicate dance that is balancing pregnancy and a migraine in her blog posts in hopes that other women with migraines who are planning on having babies would have some idea on what they are getting into.
She's also hoping for advice from those who've already traveled this road. That is, as soon as she stops jumping for joy long enough to listen...
Bookmark her blog, my gentle readers, for it's going to be an interesting and exciting journey for all of us.
link: Preggi with migraine
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
"Migraines & Exercise: How do You Stay Active?" Blog Carnival
May's edition of Migraine & Headache Blog Carnival is up and running. "Migraines & Exercise: How do You Stay Active?" is the theme for this month. Yours truly's submission is there as well but since the exercise makes one sweat, it's about about watching movies.
Remote-lifting is long overdue for the nomination as an Olympic sport :P .
link: migraines & exercise: May Headache Blog Carnival
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Weirdest Migraine Trigger Ever Contest Last Call
April 30th is the day of judgment on your pour, lamented souls that haven't submitted your entries to Megan's The Weirdest Migraine Trigger Ever Contest!
No, wait, you have to submit something to be judged. Huh...
Anywho, get on with those entries. Or the Schrodinger's Cat gets it.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Strategies for Coping with Migraines on April's Headache Blog Carnival
April's edition of Headache Blog Carnival is posted on Diana's site. Plenty of good reads, as usual. Many of our favorite bloggers as well as some new faces have contributed their writings.
Not that yours truly has stack to the topic - that would be too much to expect - but still was granted an entrance with
18 Best Sites for Migraine and Headache News
Aside from that particular detour, the rest of the articles deliver as promised. Personal experiences, helpful advices and witty commentary all rolled into one big ball of yarn of migraine-inspired creativity.
link: Headache Blog Carnival
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Weirdest Migraine Trigger Ever
All of you already know Free my Brain from Migraine Pain blog, run by Megan Oltman. And if you haven't, you do now 'cause I just told you about it.
With Megan's kind permission I am posting one of her articles here today. My reasons for doing so are thus:
- I though it would be cool to have a guest writer
- I feel lazy and, most importantly
- I think it's a good idea that Megan is proposing
It's April Fool's Day, but this is not a hoax. I do want to have a little fun though. I had a very weird event trigger a migraine the other day. I'm going to tell you about mine, but I'm also going to ask you to tell me about your weirdest migraine trigger ever. Then we'll have a contest - I'm working on recruiting the judges right now. I will publish our judges' picks for the 3 weirdest migraine triggers on Free my Brain. And there will be prizes! Maybe we can't stop the pain, but at least we can have a little fun in the meantime.
Here's my weird trigger:
What is that a picture of? Well, I had to drive my daughter to an appointment in the evening in the pouring rain. We're talking buckets here! And suddenly as I drove along the passenger-side windshield wiper started flapping loose. It was flailing and rotating so wildly it looked like it would smack into and break the other wiper. The little bracket that holds the blade to the arm had broken, as I discovered when I stepped out in a huge puddle to try to fix the thing. I fiddled with it in the pouring rain and the already broken bracket snapped in two. So I took the blade off and got back in the car.
Now you may be wondering about the Triple A sticker on the windshield - why didn't I just call them? We live in a somewhat rural area and it takes them a long time to get to us. We had this appointment to get to. So I started up the car and watched this little metal hook at the end of the wiper arm passing back and forth - it wasn't contacting the windshield so I figured we were okay.
I took my daughter to her appointment and on the way back the metal hook started scratching the windshield. A faint squeak at first, getting louder and louder, until it became this loud squealing scratching noise. After about 5 minutes I could see a scratch in the windshield where the hook was rubbing against it. We're driving along, it's a few miles to the nearest gas station. I'm worrying about my windshield breaking. It's dark and it's pouring. And there's this hideous loud noise. I can't think and the headache is starting.My brilliant daughter suggests I tie one of her socks around the hook. I stop and find an old ragged piece of towel in the back of the car. On the roof rack were some pieces of twine from when the Christmas tree was on top (let's hear it for bad housekeeping - a tidy person would not have had these useful items!). I ripped a piece of towel, tied it on with twine and finished it up with the Scotch tape that was in my purse for some reason. That's what you see in the picture, the brilliant solution that saved my windshield. And enabled me to get all the way home before the migraine hit!
Now we all know that migraine was probably triggered by loud noise and bad weather, with a hefty dose of stress pushing it over the edge. But when I ask you for your weirdest migraine trigger ever, I'm not asking for the technical official triggers. I want your stories of a pile of weird circumstances or coincidences that came together to trigger a migraine. Want to play?
Just send me an email by April 30th with your weirdest migraine trigger story through the "Email Me" link at the top of my About Me page (Click here for About Me). Winning entries will be posted in early May. Happy Spring!- Megan Oltman
Hoping all your storms are on the outside of your head.
I hope you enjoyed the article as much as I did and are already typing away about your own experiences. Go ahead and leave a comment on Megan's site. Remember, my gentle readers, the keyword for today is "weird".
link: The Weirdest Migraine Trigger Ever
Monday, February 18, 2008
I see your patterns and raise you a goblin
As if answering a challenge from Oliver Sacks, Siri Hustvedt (both of the NY Times Migraine blog) posted today an article on migraine auras. She also threw in some hallucinations and light shows for a good measure.
Here's Oliver move:
"A brilliant, shimmering light appeared to my left — dazzlingly bright, almost as bright as the sun. It expanded, becoming an enormous shimmering semicircle stretching from the ground to the sky, with sharp zigzagging borders and brilliant blue and orange colors. Then, behind the brightness, came a blindness."
And here's Siri's:
"I was lying in bed reading a book by Italo Svevo, and for some reason, looked down, and there they were: a small pink man and his pink ox, perhaps six or seven inches high. They were perfectly made creatures and, except for their color, they looked very real. They didn’t speak to me, but they walked around, and I watched them with fascination and a kind of amiable tenderness."
Good posts from both writers. Check them out if you haven't yet.
If you'll find yourself craving for more trippy stuff after you done with those, check out this "Alice in Wonderland syndrome" piece:
"Floors either curved or dipped, and when I tried walking on them, it felt as though I was staggering on sponges. When I lay in bed and looked at my hands, my fingers stretched off half a mile into the distance."
"Normals" have to lick frogs, chew mushrooms and do other crazy things just to see what we see. So, the spread of recreational drugs among them is simply a jealousy towards us, the migraine people?
link: Lifting, Lights, and Little People
link: Patterns
link: I have Alice In Wonderland syndrome
Monday, February 11, 2008
It is not a migraine. I know - I wrote a book on the subject.
Yet another quality post on nytimes.com's Migraine blog. Paula Kamen, a published author of a surprising variety of books, writes about Chronic Daily Headache (C.D.H.), her experiences with it and "discrimination" she experienced from migraine people, doctors, etc. Well, more like "ignorant misunderstanding". Or just "ignorance", really.
Whatever that might be, it does show how self-centered we could be sometimes and that we should listen more to others and less to the voices in our heads. Like now, by reading this you are listening to the voices in MY head instead of those in YOUR own. This is a good start, keep it up.
Go and check out the article, it's good - feisty style and some deep insights.
link: Down the Rabbit Hole With Chronic Daily Headache
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The Poetry of Migraine.
A new migraine blog debuted today. On nytimes.com, no less. Good place to put up a blog - the opening article generated almost 500 comments in a single day. Who knew...
Siri Hustvedt, the author, writes with an easy, flowing style. No surprises there - she is a well-known writer and poet (Amazon her, if you don't believe me). It's good to finally have some professionals in the migraine-writing biz.
A couple of words to whoever manages that blog:
First, the article summary, under the "Recent Posts", does not seem to capture the spirit in which the article was written. "Surrender" and "Acceptance" do differ.
Secondly, the tags are "hallucination" and "relaxation". Might not be exactly the best words to describe the piece.
It's growing pains, understandable. Please read it again. It's not written in stone, just HTML. Do-over in a blog is perfectly fine.
A couple of excerpts:
"I have come to think of migraines as a part of me, not as some force or plague that infects my body. Chronic headaches are my fate, and I have adopted a position of philosophical resignation."
"I do not welcome my headaches, but neither do I see them as alien. They may even serve a necessary regulatory function, by forcing me to lie low, a kind of penance, if you will, for those other days of flying high."
Well put, Ms. Hustvedt. We here will keep an eye on this new site so, please write often.
link: Arms at Rest
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