Computer Screen & Sleeping Pattern Cause for My Migraine

Migraine of February 2016

My first one this month came and is still in effect, but not in the flair mode. So far my strict schedule has kept them at bay. I was more quickly able to noticed some things that I did that may have set them off. I had a constant sleeping pattern and two days of it being off, with the last day of watching shows on YouTube may have caused the problems.

Honorable mention: I got really thirsty for water few hours before the migraines started. I have been so stressed that the new stressed I buried it deep inside to not affect me which could have enough effect on me to also cause problems.

What makes this entry interesting is that this represent my normal life at college where I am up late typing going to sleep late getting up early. Since I wasn't in school I had the ability to stay on a constant sleeping routine. Within 48 hours of it being broken a migraine hits.

Fish Oil
I found on many sites over the years that fish oil helps. I've had a steady diet of fish and I loved it. I fry my fish, and I find the oil is nicely trapped inside the meat and it adds such nice contrasting flavor.
Red Tea from South Africa
That tea I drink often, at first I felt it gave me migraines but I think I am accustom to drinking it. It is my favorite tea.

Major Reduction in Migraines!

After the worst season against battling migraines and I mean I was destroyed to the point where I couldn't post nearly as often as I wanted to here but I noticed a big reduction in my migraines since the summer started.

When I got out of college I suffered two migraines lasting for a week. after that I had two more mild migraines in June. What I noticed is a big help is that I have a regular sleeping pattern. What makes this a different from having a bedtime is this is my natural feeling sleeping. I got to sleep when I am sleepy and it seems consistent plus or minus a few hours. I still stay up during the entire night so I will theorize that avoiding the heat might have also done wonders on slowing them down.

I am significantly less stressed since school let out, even though I have unemployment and student loans knocking at my door. The stress I will say took me down greatly. Another factor that could be the case is school diet. 

Is the school the cause of what gives me migraines?
That is one of the major questions that I have. soft drinks are usually available and nothing is really home cooked. If the quality of diet is indeed a factor in increasing the frequency as well as the added stress form college then universities are certainly not doing enough or taking seriously people who have this disease.

Photo of the Day

Stress not related to Migraines

I had a very stressful winter, that has caused me to have many migraines...or was that really the cause.
My first week back I got thee migraines back-to-back days. It may have been the same one but the medicine took away the side-effects of a headache. I have a lot of things to do this summer. I will overcome my fears of doing stand-up comedy, make a living doing photography, create a publication and find a specialist who can do something about these migraines.

By now I should be an expert, but I am more an expert on feeling pain, that was a Drake joke, boom that happened. I can say that I do know at least two triggers that I will be fighting. The summer has it's own lack of structure, either nothing is happening or something always pops up especially being self-employed. So my two triggers are sleeping pattern and eating pattern along with the quality of food.

Having foster kids I sleep with one eye open as some steal and eat all the food that usually keeps me healthy. Now that I am taking a break from college to search for a better living quality I have to focus on health and starting a publication and photography business, but with the unstable living conditions a migraine ruin everything.

However it has been mostly reduced stress this first week back and out of the seven days three were migraines. For anyone who has migraines there are the days of extreme fatigue that follows. I had two productive since I came back home, certainly not a good start. However, I did finish all the photos from the past events and I am free to take on the summer.

Photos Coming soon!

Photos from Runway from Chicago and Image Awards for the WIU NAACP chapter.

Runway Show for the Columbia Picture perfect Modeling Troupe in Chicago

Awards show for the NAACP WIU chapter.

I am not sure where I will post these photos, I am going to go with Instagram and my Facebook fan group. I have been too sick to finish the editing but since I have yet another show to do I need to finish the next two shows before this weekend. 

Am I hallucinating?

Another Day of Sickness

So I am in the middle of a cold, migraine and something else that is like cold shivers, overheating and dehydration. The serious confusion plus being half sleep I couldn't figure out if I was hallucinating or just seriously confused.

I felt like the room was full of people, enough take the scarf from around my eyes to check this very small room to verify that I was indeed alone. I was dreaming about solving a problem, the closer I got it, the harder it got and it caused me more pain. Tossing and turning I was eager to go back to sleep to dream and figure out the problem all the while sweating and loosing fluids.

I was sleeping 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. the next day. My memory is reduced and that is very frustrating, knowing I can't work at my full mental capacity.

I don't want to believe it but the dreams I have kinda runs into my reality when I go from waking up to going back to sleep, but the things I feel that is there has nothing to do with my dreams.

On a migraine note, I have been doing somewhat good, migraines here and there, but now the migraines are hitting me hard and often.

Migraines and Depression

Is there connection? I get told that stress does not cause migraines but is depression a trigger? But, then I look on WebMD and my mind was instantly blown! So I will sum up this title and go with what I found. My depression is neatly wrapped around migraines and vice-versa, I see less migraines when I am not depressed, when you see how long I am faced with migraines it will give a better scope on what migraines mean to me and how important it is to over come. 

"WEDNESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Migraines and depression can each cause a great deal of suffering," said on webMD website. "But new research indicates the combination of the two may be linked to something else entirely -- a smaller brain."

What the hell, if it was not hard enough that the further I went to college the material gets harder with deeper conceptual focal points. This one search hijacked my post. I went to college for zoology, a challenge for a normal person who was denied all real science classes in high school. 

Being from Chicago as a child I was placed in special education possibly from lower test, but later you would know that the Chicago education is crap, I was taught wrong from he beginning no disability there. 

I had migraines since I was about knee-high to a  grasshopper. I have been depressed since the age of 12 at least. 

"The difference in size -- about 2 percent -- isn't alarming, study authors said, but needs further research to determine if the disparity causes any meaningful health effects," WebMD said. 

Well this gives me more reason to push harder. Both has been a problem with me for me for a long time as if both comes in pairs.