Migraines suck!

[evil_dwagon]

Well, an update of sorts. My burn is healing nicely, I'm still employed and reaching the one year mark, and my migraines were hellish this summer. I believe they're linked to air pressure changes of approaching storms. I had one within the past few weeks, and I found that I become somewhat of a tormented artist when they strike. When I say that

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[blueeyedtigress]

As a (mumble)-year migraine sufferer, I feel moved to share with you some information received via my new-to-me neurologist:

Apparently recent findings have linked migraine with having a hole in one's heart. (The physical kind, not the relationship sort, that is.) In many cases, fix the heart, and the migraines ease. Worth asking after, perhaps? (Currently I am the subject of such investigations, myself.)

[aerowolf]

Huh... interesting. For me, that would also fit the profile of getting extremely easily winded, easily tired, taking a long while to recover from physical exertion...

[blueeyedtigress]

Echocardiography is marvellous these days! Yesterday morning, I was lying there watching realtime images of my heart beating, with details of all four valves. They even have a filter they can drop across the image that gives Doppler -- they can distinguish bloodflow toward and away from the sensor, and tint it red/blue for easy analysis. The point being: they can tell an awful lot non-invasively these days.

[aerowolf]

Is it covered by Medicare? :P

[blueeyedtigress]

My apologies: I'm Canadian. Socialised healthcare has a lot to say for it, from where I sit.

It's possible it may be covered under something in the States, but I'm not qualified to say.

[aerowolf]

I'm on Arizona's medicaid (which is better than Hillary Clinton's nationalized healthcare system proposal, incidentally) in two separate programs, and I just found out in late October that I suddenly got retroactively qualified for Medicare in August.

I think the tone of my comment was a bit snarky, and I'm sorry. I'm just dealing with a (rising-air-pressure) migraine at the moment, and so I'm probably not all that easy to talk with.

I need to ask my doc about that -- thank you for the info. :)

[blueeyedtigress]

No apology needed! Honestly, the snark didn't come through your typing!

(Besides, I'm Canadian: part of the definition goes along the lines of, "you step on my foot at a party, and I apologise to you" ....) ;]

Hope you're feeling better soon. 8P