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Entries Tagged as 'Migraines'

Retirement begins at 40

June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]

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Tags: Aging · California · Health · Migraines · My Company · News · Working World

Cranky crone at the gym

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been going to a gym or pool pretty much consecutively for about 30 years, but tonight was the first time I had to leave in less than 10 minutes because I was becoming physically ill.
The booming bass from the spinning class at the downtown YMCA was so loud that I couldn’t take it even [...]

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Tags: 27701 · Aging · Durham, NC · Health · Migraines

Haiku

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Jackhammers downstairs
My skull is vibrating, too
Turns my brain to mush

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Tags: 27701 · Haiku · Migraines · Working World

Why? Because they can.

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Stumbled on this news brief today about hackers putting seizure-triggering posts on an epilepsy board. Neurologically, migraines and epilepsy are cousins; flashing lights and patterns are a trigger for both.
It’s easy enough to see why someone would inflict harm on another for reasons of greed, hatred, political gain, etc.; anything in which the inflicter stands [...]

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Tags: Migraines · News · Society · Weird shit

Harry Potter’s migraines

March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Looks like I’m not the only one who picked up on the telltale signs of migraine in the Harry Potter books. I hadn’t thought about the scar in that respect, but when he is gets a pounding headache from the fluorescent lights in his aunt’s kitchen, I had my Aha! moment.

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Tags: Books · Health · Migraines

Speaking in tongues

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

An article in the October issue of Scientific American reports on the neurology of mystical experiences.
I’ve been meditating in one for or another for around 30 years. I started originally for stress reduction in an attempt to short-circuit migraines. My intention was never spiritual, but in the process I’ve experienced what many consider spiritual experiences.
I’ve [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Brainworks · Migraines

Let-down headache

September 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Everybody who gets migraines has a slightly different set of triggers and symptoms. One of the patterns that I follow is what’s called the “let-down headache.” I tend to get a headache after the stress has passed, rather than during, or in anticipation of, a stressor. For myself, deadline pressure is the killer: grief, emotional [...]

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Tags: Migraines