After months of neglect, I’m dusting off Ye Olde Blog to participate in Invisible Illness Week. I heard about it through a migraine e-list that I’m on. I guess it resonated with me because I spent Friday afternoon and most of Saturday with migraine. An invisible illness is one where you don’t “look sick”. This [...]

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If I look like a reject from the Blue Man Group, it’s only because food with blue dye is now being recommended as a treatment for migraine. In large enough quantities—i.e., the amount they give to lab rat—it temporarily turns the skin bright blue. Share on Facebook

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How did I miss this? Just heard from my pharmacist that imitrex is now available as generic sumatriptan. Happy happy happy dance!! Since the nearly-$500/month I pay in health insurance premiums doesn’t cover a year’s worth of brand-name medications, this could save me hundreds of dollars a year. Now, if they will only release montekulast [...]

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I admire people who are slaves to routine. I really do. Up at 5am, morning jog, at their desk at 8:30am, blah blah blah fall into bed and fast asleep by 9:30. I suppose I have a routine, but it drifts like a fourth-grader’s attempts to sing on key. Monday: Up before 6am. Work out. [...]

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An article about ending perks that pharmaceutical companies grant to doctors in the form of swag and cushy conferences included this quote: “I would often grab samples off the shelf because I thought I was doing patients a favor,” Krumholz said in a telephone interview. “I was naive. I didn’t realize this was a very [...]

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It’s been pretty much non-stop action this week. When last you saw your intrepid travelers, I believe we had been here a mere day or two and still had two weeks yawning before us. Now we’re into the endgame, trying to figure out what we can fit in during the last couple of days, with [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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