Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts

Re:Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts by quackscience on Friday January 31, 2025 @07:04PM (#42894030)

I've had headache-free ocular migraines since I was about 13 or 14. Your typical aura/flashing/light sensitivity. They always are proceeded by some flash and then I know I have maybe 15 minutes before I'm in the middle of it.

Anyway, two things that I find helps. The easiest one is supplementing magnesium -- if I ever run out and forget to order more for a couple weeks I'll inevitably have a migraine. The other one is LSD or mushrooms. My friend is a science journalist and covered a group of people taking LSD for cluster headaches, and I figured if it was working for them it was worth a shot.

I still get them a few times per year, but it's way way less frequent now.

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Re:Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts by e40 on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:53AM (#42897244)

I found my ocular migraines were triggered by my looking out the window in the morning while I brushed my teeth. On sunny days it was a lot of brightness to take in. Since I stopped doing that I haven’t had a single one.

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Re:Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts by pvitz on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:52PM (#42901017)

My migraines turned out to be related to my wisdom teeth. Once they were removed (for a different reason), the migraines stopped.

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Re:Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts by quackscience on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:23PM (#42910537)

Yes, the change of light intensity is a common trigger for me. Either looking at a screen and then outside, or vice versa, or even bright led lights. But they've still largely gone away with regular magnesium supplementation and occasional psychedelic use (a few times per year).

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