A ha! I recently posted about a migraine I’d had, and that prompted me to remember some correspondence with researcher Klaus Podoll about my experience. In that post I linked to the freaky migraine art, but said I didn’t think my experience had turned up anywhere in the site. Well, I was wrong, they did turn up there.
Here is the page with lots of freaky stories of deja vu in relation to migraine. Neat stuff. Classic migraine really goes to town on your brain chemistry, so its not surprising that its accompanied by some deeply strange subjective experiences. The one I wrote about in the “Flashy Halos of Death” entry reproduced on the site is the most unusual I’ve ever had, for sure.
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And in the complete opposite direction, the good Mr Oxbrow has notified all and sundry that part 2 of Sugarshock is up – this being the comic by Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon released free on the web by Dark Horse Comics. Go be entertained.
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I used to get visual migraines — fluorescing zigzag spirals that would start small and expand. Not every day, but maybe every month or so. I didn’t realise they were migraines since there was no headache.
Then one night, as I was going to bed, I had a big one: it was like I had pins and needles in the entire left side of my body. I stumbled upstairs to wake my parents (walking’s hard when you’re getting no nerve feedback in one leg). My mum rang the after-hours medical advice line and they said it was a migraine, and that I should just chill and wait for it to stop.
[I later found that my parents thought I’d had a stroke]
After fifteen minutes or so, my nerves got back to normal and a headache started. A typical migraine headach, though not nearly as bad as some people get. Since that time, I’ve hardly (if ever) had migraines of any kind.
I’ve read that a migraine is caused by a blood vessel in your brain spasming and putting pressure on the surrounding neurons. I wonder if that attack was a particularly big spasm which ended up making enough space around the trigger area to prevent future migraines…
A friend who gets migraines told me that there’s a treatment that sometimes works that uses Botox to paralyse some of the muscles around your scalp. Naturally, this will only work if there’s an identifiable muscle that’s linked to each person’s migraines, but for the people it works on it’s apparently great.