Posts Tagged ‘headache’
January 14th, 2009
Kudos to Diana Lee who got her act together in the New Year to get the Blog Carnival out right on time – yours truly is still adjusting to a new schedule and not even getting over here to post very often, so you won’t see an entry from me in this month’s carnival! But it’s a great topic – What Keeps You Going When You’re Suffering. So pleaase head on over to Somebody Heal Me for the January edition of the Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival for some great reading to keep you going. I will be heading over myself for some reads on such topics as yawning, sleeping it off, revenge, and new Migraine drugs, as well as other coping strategies! See you there!
Generally speaking, a blog carnival is a collection of links to a variety of a blogs on a central topic. The Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival has been created to provide both headache and migraine disease patients and people who blog about headache disorders with unique opportunities to share ideas on topics of particular interest and importance to us. Visit the link to this month’s carnival for a collection of informative entries on the theme of What Keeps You Going When You’re Suffering.
– Megan
Tags: headache, Migraine disease, Weblogs
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December 8th, 2008
The December Headache and Migraine Disease Blog Carnival is posted today at Somebody Heal Me. The indomitable Diana Lee has assembled another great line-up of posts for your reading pleasure, designed to help you make it through the holidays with a smile on your face and a song in your heart… in other words, the theme is “Maximizing Your Enjoyment of the Holiday Season”.
Generally speaking, a blog carnival is a collection of links to a variety of a blogs on a central topic. The Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival has been created to provide both headache patients and people who blog about headaches with unique opportunities to share ideas on topics of particular interest and importance to us.
This is the one year anniversary issue of the Headache and Migraine Disease Blog Carnival, so please head on over to Somebody Heal Me for some good holiday reading!
– Megan
Hannukah image courtesy of skpy/Scott; Christmas image courtesy of Randy son of Robert; Kwanzaa image courtesy of soulchristmas.
Tags: blog carnival, Christmas, Hannukah, headache, holidays, Kwanzaa, migraine, Weblogs
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September 9th, 2008
Just in time for my Migraine specialist visit next Tuesday, Diana Lee has posted the September Headache Blog Carnival – Tips for Improving Doctor Patient Communication over at Somebody Heal Me. I’m going to have a lot of reading to do!
Generally speaking, a blog carnival is a collection of links to a
variety of a blogs on a central topic. The Headache & Migraine Disease Blog
Carnival has been created to provide both headache and migraine
disease patients and people who blog about headache disorders with unique
opportunities to share ideas on topics of particular interest and importance to
us. Visit the link to this month’s carnival for a collection of
informative entries on improving doctor patient communication.
– Megan Oltman
Tags: blog carnival, doctor/patient communication, headache, Migraine disease
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July 16th, 2008
In honor of the brilliantly funny Migraine Chick who periodically brings us her Bad Migraine Haiku, and maybe just because I am fundamentally a silly person, I bring you installment One of Silly Headache Rhymes:
My head is not too spiffy,
it’s really kinda iffy,
I’d trade it in a jiffy
if I had an extra head!
– Megan Oltman
Two-headed image courtesy of 1024greenstreet.
Tags: headache, migraine, poetry
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May 13th, 2008
Please go check out the May 12, 2008, edition of the Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival. The carnival is posted at Somebody Heal Me. The theme of this month’s carnival is “How to integrate exercise into a life filled with migraines.”
There are lots of great entries on how to keep active, and then quite a few on other topics, including “exercises” in relaxing and calming our systems – a wonderful juxtaposition of inner and outer fitness! I contributed one of the “inner” ones, as I’ve been quite challenged on the “outer”[ front lately. The good news is that I am very encouraged by the posts in this carnival – read them – they will help!
Submit your blog article to the June 2008 edition of the Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival using the carnival submission form or by sending entries directly to Diana by e-mail.
The June 2008 theme will be “How to Have a Fun, Healthy Vacation in Spite of your Migraines.” Entries are due by midnight on Friday, June 6th (the end of the day). Look for the June carnival to appear on Monday, June 9th.
– Megan
Tags: blog carnival, exercise, fitness, headache, Migraine disease, staying active, Weblogs
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May 5th, 2008
Better late than never, courtesy of the spectacular Diana Lee – let me remind you:
Entries for
the May 2008 Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival on the theme
of “Migraines & Exercise: How do you remain active” are due by the end of the day on Friday, May 9th.particularly useful, educational or inspirational for headache and migraine sufferers are also welcome. Posts may be submitted through the form on the carnival website or directly to me by e-mail (I’ll forward them to this month’s host)..You can get more information about the carnival at this link: Headache & Migraine Blog Carnival.
Also, please let Diana Lee know if you’d like to be added to the e-mail list
for the carnival, if you’re interested in hosting a future edition or
if you have suggestions for future themes.
Posts that relate to the May carnival’s theme will receive preference. Entries on topics that are
The April carnival will be posted on Monday, May 12th at Atomic City
– Megan
Tags: exercise, headache, migraine, Weblogs
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February 28th, 2008
a. Europe’s $1.50 Headache Is Italy’s Migraine(Headline in Forbes.com today, article by Vidya Ram – the article is about the rising euro and its effect on Italian exporters.)
b. SOUTHERN AFRICA: Integration and the migrant migraine (Headline from IRIN, posted by Reuters today – the article is about how the flow of Zimbabwean migrants to neighboring countries is hindering the goal of Southern African regional integration.)
c. Saturday – slept badly Friday night, migraine by afternoon, pain at level 3 on left, moderate nausea, picked up boys from movies, pain at level 8 on return, both sides now, extreme light sensitivity, took Imitrex 7 pm, lay down, room dark. Can’t read or look at computer screen. Vomiting on & off 3 hours, pain varied from 8 to 5, went to sleep around 10. Pain at a 3 on waking, tired, achy, depressed all day.
Okay, are you ready? Which one is the real migraine? You picked c, right? Good job! You get a gold star. a and b are known as frustrations, hassles, problems or perhaps international crises. They are not migraines.
Am I being too much of a stickler here? Maybe. Maybe not. There’s a lot of real news about migraine in the news these days. Partly thanks to the New York Times Migraine Blog, or maybe our chance for some recognition and understanding has finally come. But most of us get annoyed by the trivialization of a very real and debilitating illness. 
Interestingly, today the first 15 pages of results of a Google search on migraine are actually some kind of content about migraines. This was not so a few months ago, when I tried the same search and came up with many references like the two above, and one about a hockey team’s poor performance being a “migraine” for the team manager.
I am willing to ascribe most of this to ignorance, not evil intention. I think it’s become a fashion to refer to a big hassle as a “migraine” instead of just a “headache.” However, it does distract public attention from the fact that this is a disease. A fact that most people still don’t know.
Is it okay to say “what a headache?” If you’ve ever had a headache, you know what that means. Most people have had a headache, and know that tension can lead to one. So we call things that make us tense or upset “a headache.” People also say “I just about had a stroke!” or “I just about had a heart attack!” I’ve been guilty of that myself. After a stroke hit someone very near and dear to me, I didn’t feel like joking around about it any more.
This is in the category of being responsible for what comes out of our mouths. We create our world through language. We shape what is possible for ourselves and others. You only have to listen to political double-speak to understand that. Whoever gets to frame the issues tends to win the debate.
And so, maybe we can call a hassle a hassle and a crisis a crisis? It seems like in our culture we always have to go one better, to make things more extreme. If 10 years ago we called a hassle a headache, today we have to call it a migraine. What will we call it 10 years from now? A brain tumor?
– Megan Oltman
Somebody stop me before my head explodes!
cave waterfall courtesy of subflux; brain courtesy of Gaetan Lee
Tags: headache, migraine, news
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