1% Thursday: Outside the Lines
This week: Take the time to learn about a different type of headache.
I’m blessed with a very unusual point of view. Because of this site, I don’t just focus on my own symptoms, and my own condition, but a wide variety of conditions and diseases that are related to headache.
A few weeks ago, I was researching a rare type of migraine. I was reading through some technical medical information that one would never choose to read on a rainy night with a hot cup of cocoa, unless you had a very good reason.
Suddenly, I noticed something – a connection with a disorder that another member of my family has – this disorder possibly connected with my migraine disease.
It’s a long shot, but that little bit of information in a rare medical text might just tell me something about my disease that will bring me a whole lot closer to understanding what’s going on.
So for the sake of finding those connections, and for the sake of looking outward and discovering the struggles of other people – I challenge you to learn about another type of headache or migraine today. Here are some possible places to start:
- Migraine without headache
- Sinus headache
- Abdominal migraine
- Retinal migraine
- Familial hemiplegic migraine
- Headache in cerebral venous thrombosis
- Lupus headache
- Cluster vs Migraine
- A few more…
What is 1% Thursday?
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Every Thursday at Headache and Migraine News (weather permitting) we’ll talk about one measurable, practical thing we can do to make our lives just 1% better. Usually it will be something very easy, sometimes it will be a challenge. Let us know if you try it, or share an idea of your own – and maybe a year from now we’ll see that things have really changed for the better!