OMG, I can barely touch the affected section of my head when I'm having a migraine. I know Betsy is the same way. I can't imagine pressing for relief. It sounds like anathema.

rth it. I tried weaning myself off Topamax last year, and my migraine frequency shot up from once every few months to once a week or more.

Heh. I'm cautiously optimistic about having weaned off topomax. But am taking several herbal type things--magnesium, riboflavin, feverfew, and coq10. And so far so good.

Mine involved sensitivity to light and vomiting, if they were bad, or just nausea or not wanting food, if mild.

I've been working on Hollaback Israel all day (almost there, dammit), when I saw this: [link]

Well, at the very least, all mallards. I love the one in the back.

OMG, I can barely touch the affected section of my head when I'm having a migraine. I know Betsy is the same way. I can't imagine pressing for relief. It sounds like anathema.

I can't have my hair in a ponytail when I have a migraine, but pressing on my cheekbone is okay. (Which, again, is why I thought they were sinus -- I mean, the cheekbone area is what hurts with sinus problems. TV commercials tell us so!)

It is hard to find head-on photos of ducks but so far every one is wearing a dog mask (although the teal I found looked more like a coyote). Why, when I google "types of ducks" do I get an image of a naked man washing an elephant?

Why, when I google "types of ducks" do I get an image of a naked man washing an elephant?

My guess: because he is an odd duck?

Perhaps it's an obscure verb definition of the word 'duck'.

Yeah, I haven`t gotten migraines since my Boeing coding days. The worst one there thankfully happened during one of my long hour days and I was able to huddle in the darkness in my shared office a good three hours before anyone else came in. I get the occasional dehydration headache out here but whatever was triggering me back there hasn`t followed me.

One of my students is driving me nuts with asking questions. Usually, I like questions. But he keeps asking me about things that he won't cover for another year or so, and which I haven't looked at in years, and then he just will not stop asking no matter how many times I tell him "I don't know." I've tried giving him suggestions for where to find his answers, or better people to ask, but he just keeps asking me, I say, "I don't know," and he asks the exact same question again, and so on. And this is all going on in the five minutes before class when a bunch of other students are waiting with questions actually related to the course. I tried telling him, "You can come to my office hours to discuss this, so I can answer when I have more than thirty seconds," and he just heaved a huge sigh and went back to his seat and pouted for the rest of the class.

After dealing with him, I had no social interaction left in me for dealing with any other people, so instead of going grocery shopping like I'd planned, I came right home and ordered pizza from the place that takes internet orders.