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June is Migraine & Headache Awareness Month<\/b>, so I thought I’d write briefly about something I rarely write about – migraine!<\/p>\n

I’ve had migraine disease for more than half of my life – maybe all of it.<\/b>  Migraine has been called a genetically based neurological disease<\/i>.  We know it is connected to genetic defects, and we also know it’s connected to neurology – that is, the messages that are sent throughout your body using things like electric impulses and chemicals.<\/p>\n

It used to be thought that migraine was caused by changes in changes in blood vessels (constriction and dilation), but now we know that this isn’t the case.<\/p>\n

One possible<\/i> symptoms of migraine is headache<\/b> (from mild to severe).  However, not all migraine attacks include headache, and if they do they may not include it all the time.  Migraine without<\/i> headache can be very disabling, as can migraine with<\/i> headache.<\/p>\n

Common symptoms include nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, vertigo, pain in various parts of the body, trouble speaking, confusion, numbness, hallucinations, congestion, and many more strange things.<\/p>\n

For your interest I’m posting a chart of the intensity of my symptoms over the past 12 days (not including yesterday).<\/b>  Let me note just a few things.<\/p>\n

First, this records the level of symptoms<\/i>, not necessarily headache.  The higher the red part goes, the more intense\/disabling the symptoms.<\/p>\n

A very good day would be 2 or lower.  None of those over the past 12 days.<\/p>\n

3 is pretty normal.  Get to 4, and it’s really on your mind.<\/p>\n

At 5 it gets hard to do normal things.  At level 6, I may be cancelling appointments, and could be in bed.<\/p>\n

At 7 I may or may not be able to get anything done at home – probably in bed.  Hopefully not out and about.<\/p>\n

At 8, I probably can’t even sit up and read.  At 9 – well, it’s not something we’ll talk about.<\/p>\n

10 is a theoretical number – I would hopefully pass out from pain that intense.  I’ve recorded 9.5, maybe 9.75 – but never 10.<\/p>\n

The last 12 days have had low numbers that are unusually high – that is, very little below 4.  But the high numbers have maybe been unusually low – I didn’t record anything beyond a 7.  So this may not be typical – just what the last 12 days have been like.<\/p>\n

Here you are:<\/p>\n

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