Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!
The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.
This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.
The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.
You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.
If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!
I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.
If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!
*currently suffering from a horrible migraine. Tries this*
Are you fucking shitting me it works!?
@thebibliosphere I don’t know if it’ll help, but it may be worth looking into.
This is something my magic physio man also taught me. It helps if your migraines are triggered by muscle tension. Not so much if you have other root causes like OP mentioned above.
Reblogging with @thebibliosphere very helpful recommendations from the tags.
can we please not call this a thing for migraine headaches? “migraine” is a specific term that doesn’t just mean “a bad headache” but refers to an event in the brain. I’m sure this is great for tension headaches, but… well, I’m a little cross atm bc I knew it likely wouldn’t help my migraine, but I tried it out anyway, I’ll attempt anything minor once.
and it’s actually worse now. I know this isn’t proof of anything, that’s not my point, just. if I’m sharp that’s why. in pain and irritated at further misuse of terms that muddy the waters.
got on tumblr itself for the first time in years. I’m on twitter for now @floramew, though given News who knows how long that’ll last lol. I’m also on discord @floramei #2018. if anyone here wants to reconnect or whatever, that’s where I’ll be.
it was nice seeing posts from folks again. but I left tumblr for a reason. I’ll only be back a few more times before ghosting again, probably.
Does anyone have any problems with their sims just… dropping their university homework anywhere? I always lose their homework because they just leave it behind. Is there a mod to fix this?
idk if you’re still having this issue.
I… am also unsure if this fixes Uni level homework– the modder doesn’t seem to have a separate file for it, anyway?
Ha! I literally have no other choice now. And I still owe three commissions that are only 90%-50% done. Which I can’t even give refunds for cuz I got defrauded on paypal after selling some of my collectibles!! Not that I even have time to draw anymore since I have to pick up more and more hours! Isn’t life grand?
Anyway, maybe donate or signal boost to help a disabled, bipolar&C-PTSD trans man & his autistic wife even START to escape from an abusive home?
Read the story in the link for details, but TL;DR after a series of horrible events and bad luck my step father defrauded me (I posted about it before) and no matter how hard I tried and how many hours I slogged through in pain in a minimum wage job I cannot dig us out alone. And thanks to the you know what illness my wife’s work permit is delayed several months at best.
Anyone else wonder where they might be if their families hadn’t completely ruined them
Ha! I literally have no other choice now. And I still owe three commissions that are only 90%-50% done. Which I can’t even give refunds for cuz I got defrauded on paypal after selling some of my collectibles!! Not that I even have time to draw anymore since I have to pick up more and more hours! Isn’t life grand?
Anyway, maybe donate or signal boost to help a disabled, bipolar&C-PTSD trans man & his autistic wife even START to escape from an abusive home?
Read the story in the link for details, but TL;DR after a series of horrible events and bad luck my step father defrauded me (I posted about it before) and no matter how hard I tried and how many hours I slogged through in pain in a minimum wage job I cannot dig us out alone. And thanks to the you know what illness my wife’s work permit is delayed several months at best.
Anyone else wonder where they might be if their families hadn’t completely ruined them
Ha! I literally have no other choice now. And I still owe three commissions that are only 90%-50% done. Which I can’t even give refunds for cuz I got defrauded on paypal after selling some of my collectibles!! Not that I even have time to draw anymore since I have to pick up more and more hours! Isn’t life grand?
Anyway, maybe donate or signal boost to help a disabled, bipolar&C-PTSD trans man & his autistic wife even START to escape from an abusive home?
Read the story in the link for details, but TL;DR after a series of horrible events and bad luck my step father defrauded me (I posted about it before) and no matter how hard I tried and how many hours I slogged through in pain in a minimum wage job I cannot dig us out alone. And thanks to the you know what illness my wife’s work permit is delayed several months at best.
Anyone else wonder where they might be if their families hadn’t completely ruined them
Ha! I literally have no other choice now. And I still owe three commissions that are only 90%-50% done. Which I can’t even give refunds for cuz I got defrauded on paypal after selling some of my collectibles!! Not that I even have time to draw anymore since I have to pick up more and more hours! Isn’t life grand?
Anyway, maybe donate or signal boost to help a disabled, bipolar&C-PTSD trans man & his autistic wife even START to escape from an abusive home?
Read the story in the link for details, but TL;DR after a series of horrible events and bad luck my step father defrauded me (I posted about it before) and no matter how hard I tried and how many hours I slogged through in pain in a minimum wage job I cannot dig us out alone. And thanks to the you know what illness my wife’s work permit is delayed several months at best.
Anyone else wonder where they might be if their families hadn’t completely ruined them
Ha! I literally have no other choice now. And I still owe three commissions that are only 90%-50% done. Which I can’t even give refunds for cuz I got defrauded on paypal after selling some of my collectibles!! Not that I even have time to draw anymore since I have to pick up more and more hours! Isn’t life grand?
Anyway, maybe donate or signal boost to help a disabled, bipolar&C-PTSD trans man & his autistic wife even START to escape from an abusive home?
Read the story in the link for details, but TL;DR after a series of horrible events and bad luck my step father defrauded me (I posted about it before) and no matter how hard I tried and how many hours I slogged through in pain in a minimum wage job I cannot dig us out alone. And thanks to the you know what illness my wife’s work permit is delayed several months at best.
Anyone else wonder where they might be if their families hadn’t completely ruined them
Ha! I literally have no other choice now. And I still owe three commissions that are only 90%-50% done. Which I can’t even give refunds for cuz I got defrauded on paypal after selling some of my collectibles!! Not that I even have time to draw anymore since I have to pick up more and more hours! Isn’t life grand?
Anyway, maybe donate or signal boost to help a disabled, bipolar&C-PTSD trans man & his autistic wife even START to escape from an abusive home?
Read the story in the link for details, but TL;DR after a series of horrible events and bad luck my step father defrauded me (I posted about it before) and no matter how hard I tried and how many hours I slogged through in pain in a minimum wage job I cannot dig us out alone. And thanks to the you know what illness my wife’s work permit is delayed several months at best.
Anyone else wonder where they might be if their families hadn’t completely ruined them
I keep forgetting a) to update this or b) that it's cut off after not very long. hi, I'm Flora or Mica, born late 1991 so 25 at time of writing but idk when I'll update this next lol.
important thing: sometimes on computer, I forget to delete tags from the person I reblog that don't apply to me. if you see me do this and you'd like me to remove the tags from a post, whether it's your post or not, please just tell me (with some details about the post bc I queue so I'll have to find it) and I'll remove them and/or the post entirely.
