I already know that one of my biggest triggers is dehydration - I've often had migraines after being out in the sun all day, being in a sauna, or eating lots of salty food.
I also notice a non-consistent pattern with my period. I don't always get a migraine before it starts, but I'm often unsurprised when it starts the next day... and given that I seem to get migraines about once a month, it might be worth me actually charting the dates in correspondence with my cycle. Gawd it feels weird to talk about my female body :P I don't think I've ever discussed it in my journal before.
I used to be able to tell when a migraine was coming more easily through changes in my mood and getting stomach pains a few hours before... but the anxiety/depression problem I have right now mimics those symptoms and so either I have to ignore them, or I have to assume that every low mood or stomach pain is an impeding migraine... and then that just feeds the anxiety ^^;
Thanks for the really helpful comment (part A, going to part B now).
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Re: Discovering migraine triggers
Date: 2011-06-15 11:45 am (UTC)I already know that one of my biggest triggers is dehydration - I've often had migraines after being out in the sun all day, being in a sauna, or eating lots of salty food.
I also notice a non-consistent pattern with my period. I don't always get a migraine before it starts, but I'm often unsurprised when it starts the next day... and given that I seem to get migraines about once a month, it might be worth me actually charting the dates in correspondence with my cycle. Gawd it feels weird to talk about my female body :P I don't think I've ever discussed it in my journal before.
I used to be able to tell when a migraine was coming more easily through changes in my mood and getting stomach pains a few hours before... but the anxiety/depression problem I have right now mimics those symptoms and so either I have to ignore them, or I have to assume that every low mood or stomach pain is an impeding migraine... and then that just feeds the anxiety ^^;
Thanks for the really helpful comment (part A, going to part B now).