Chronic illness and marriage is such a complicated combination that it’s rare to see a healthy spouse’s perspective on their partner’s chronic illness. I read Living With a Husband’s Chronic Illness Has a Bad Effect on His Wife’s Health eager for insight. I didn’t like…
The cauliflower debacle never really resolved. Even after I stopped eating cauliflower, I began reacting to other “safe” foods I’ve restricted my diet to the last six months. Despair was knocking, so I did what I always do when I need a sense of control…
When I was in Seattle last summer, I wrote about my grief that migraine kept me from living in the city that felt like home to me. A few months later, when friends were visiting for Thanksgiving, I was hit with the realization that Phoenix…
Thanks to my extreme sensitivity to odors, getting a haircut often triggers a migraine. Here’s how I’ve learned to avoid salon-induced migraine attacks. 1. Avoid salons that do nails. Need I say more? 2. Go to an Aveda salon. While the scent of Aveda’s products…
Could colic be an early form of migraine? Quite possibly, according to an increasing body of evidence. The latest research, presented at the American Headache Society conference in June, reviewed published studies that either investigated migraine and colic specifically or had collected data on migraine…