Okay, so here’s the sequence of events:
- Bought a decorative barometer for my office in a fit of ADHD-must-buy-something boredom.
- Thanks to decorative barometer, I start to realize that my migraines seem to be triggered more by high pressure than low, which is opposite how it works for a lot of people.
- Winter rolls around.
- My office is cold.
- Put space heater in office and curtain over office door to heat office but not the whole apartment, but also allow the cats easy access to their litterbox.
- Discover that this configuration SIGNIFICANTLY drops the pressure in my office compared to the rest of the apartment, no matter what the weather is doing.
- Realize I have turned my office into something of an anti-migraine or at least migraine-reduction box.
- Celebrate?
Today is the first day I’ve really been able to test this system out, despite suspecting it for a couple weeks. I woke up with a migraine that has gotten progressively worse throughout the day, but I have been working in the livingroom rather than the office because I needed more room.
Finally the migraine got to the point I couldn’t really work anymore, and the Ibuprofen wasn’t doing shit, so I wandered back into my office and turned on the space heater to drop the pressure so I could see what would happen.
It got better within MINUTES.
It is far from gone, but I no longer feel like I’m getting stabbed in the head either, so. I’m calling it a win. And I’m just gonna…nap on the floor now or something.
Update: after about 45 minutes of sitting in the migraine-reduction box, my migraine is about 75% gone.
Neat.
Guess I live here now.
Second update: left migraine reduction box for dinner. Migraine did not return.
Can’t afford to go see a doctor right now, but I can’t wait to rock up at some point and be like “okay, listen, I have created a magic box within my home and INSIDE the box I do not get migraines and can in fact end migraines. Let’s discuss.”
(via 23-tiny-wishes)
