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New England Winter 2024-25 Bantering, Whining, and Sobbing Thread


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1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Feb. 2023?  Certainly not this winter.  That blast 2 years back had MWN gusting over 140 at temps below -40.

Yeah I’m surprised the record would be set this winter. We haven’t had obscene arctic cold. 

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4 hours ago, tamarack said:

Feb. 2023?  Certainly not this winter.  That blast 2 years back had MWN gusting over 140 at temps below -40.

 

2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah I’m surprised the record would be set this winter. We haven’t had obscene arctic cold. 

 

2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Ok yes, the record was set on Feb 4, 2023…just looked it up

I hate social media lol.  Sites posting that up like it happened yesterday.

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54 minutes ago, Prismshine Productions said:

good morning everyone, migraine still there but now just a dull headache, did the Euro finally get off its ass?

I was seriously asking you if your migraines are clinically defined, or if you are just calling them that ... like euphemistically.   People just say in passing that they have "such a migraine" but there's a certain defined set of physiological events that set the migraine phenomenon apart from 'bad headaches'.   

I know this stuff, because I am a lifer... have been since adolescence.  I had my first aura at 9 years old.  Now, yes ... one can suffer aura and also non-aura migraines.  But, by and large, most proper and real migraine encumbered individuals experience some form or another of aura, usually visual, during the initial stages of an attack; but it can manifest in other physiology signifying the onset of the migraine event.  

The migraine event, in the latest NCBI ( National Centers of Biological Information or NIH, National Institute of Health ),  suggests cascade "Potassium flushing" takes place through the neurons of the brain, temporarily destabilizes the critical sodium - potassium ( negative positive ion gate ) differential across cell membraine.   If the delta between Na- and K+ electrolytes are not maintained within range ( for whatever reason, and that is related to genetics and environmental ... which is makes for nightmare individual diagnostics and triggering ), the K is released - thought to be a mutation that serves a function of 're-setting' the gate differential to be at crucial ratio.

It is important to know this stuff ... because,  new aura migraines at middle age, whence the patient has no or very limited prior life-history, is significantly correlated/increasing stroke risk.   Those that are life sufferers, however, this correlation is less; the underlying triggering mechanism is not the same, nor necessarily caused by risk factors associated to a broader spectrum of life styles and/or special circumstance that lead to latter life onset of the condition. 

The science has come a long way.  Medications are useful, but there are often side effects...etc. etc, like all chemistry -based prevention, they're never absolute and may also have secondary risk factors. Usually a tailored approach, that combines diet and other life styles, with medications...   For me, I never went the medication route.   One thing about life-suffers, migraines appear to be gestational modulating.  Usually around between 38 and 50 years of age ... patients report that while aura still takes place, the ability to function and straight up tolerate the pain sequence of the total migraine event, are greatly improved.  I am now in this latter population myself   So, ... 20 to 30 min of aura doesn't ( or hasn't in recent years ... ) immediately preceded an elephant standing on my head, while a Nazi's experiment with peripheral neuropathy ...  A couple of prophylactic Advil ( more so a placebo -) and the headache is more dull in nature.  

I have recently found cutting out simple carbs .. if not entirely, strictly reducing them to very low weekly consumption ( like I don't ever eat white bread, white pasta, soda pop, refined fruit juices - basically, all industrialize sugar concentrates of any kind, period ), and the aura frequency has dropped to almost never.  I had never tried this before... I actually got into doing this dietary measure for other reasons.. .but noticed along the way, 'huh, i have had a migraine in months'

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13 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I was seriously asking you if your migraines are clinically defined, or if you are just calling them that ... like euphemistically.   People just say in passing that they have "such a migraine" but there's a certain defined set of physiological events that set the migraine phenomenon apart from 'bad headaches'.   

I know this stuff, because I am a lifer... have been since adolescence.  I had my first aura at 9 years old.  Now, yes ... one can suffer aura and also non-aura migraines.  But, by and large, most proper and real migraine encumbered individuals experience some form or another of aura, usually visual, during the initial stages of an attack; but it can manifest in other physiology signifying the onset of the migraine event.  

The migraine event, in the latest NCBI ( National Centers of Biological Information or NIH, National Institute of Health ),  suggests cascade "Potassium flushing" takes place through the neurons of the brain, temporarily destabilizes the critical sodium - potassium ( negative positive ion gate ) differential across cell membraine.   If the delta between Na- and K+ electrolytes are not maintained within range ( for whatever reason, and that is related to genetics and environmental ... which is makes for nightmare individual diagnostics and triggering ), the K is released - thought to be a mutation that serves a function of 're-setting' the gate differential to be at crucial ratio.

It is important to know this stuff ... because,  new aura migraines at middle age, whence the patient has no or very limited prior life-history, is significantly correlated/increasing stroke risk.   Those that are life sufferers, however, this correlation is less; the underlying triggering mechanism is not the same, nor necessarily caused by risk factors associated to a broader spectrum of life styles and/or special circumstance that lead to latter life onset of the condition. 

The science has come a long way.  Medications are useful, but there are often side effects...etc. etc, like all chemistry -based prevention, they're never absolute and may also have secondary risk factors. Usually a tailored approach, that combines diet and other life styles, with medications...   For me, I never went the medication route.   One thing about life-suffers, migraines appear to be gestational modulating.  Usually around between 38 and 50 years of age ... patients report that while aura still takes place, the ability to function and straight up tolerate the pain sequence of the total migraine event, are greatly improved.  I am now in this latter population myself   So, ... 20 to 30 min of aura doesn't ( or hasn't in recent years ... ) immediately preceded an elephant standing on my head, while a Nazi's experiment with peripheral neuropathy ...  A couple of prophylactic Advil ( more so a placebo -) and the headache is more dull in nature.  

I have recently found cutting out simple carbs .. if not entirely, strictly reducing them to very low weekly consumption ( like I don't ever eat white bread, white pasta, soda pop, refined fruit juices - basically, all industrialize sugar concentrates of any kind, period ), and the aura frequency has dropped to almost never.  I had never tried this before... I actually got into doing this dietary measure for other reasons.. .but noticed along the way, 'huh, i have had a migraine in months'

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17 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I was seriously asking you if your migraines are clinically defined, or if you are just calling them that ... like euphemistically.   People just say in passing that they have "such a migraine" but there's a certain defined set of physiological events that set the migraine phenomenon apart from 'bad headaches'.   

I know this stuff, because I am a lifer... have been since adolescence.  I had my first aura at 9 years old.  Now, yes ... one can suffer aura and also non-aura migraines.  But, by and large, most proper and real migraine encumbered individuals experience some form or another of aura, usually visual, during the initial stages of an attack; but it can manifest in other physiology signifying the onset of the migraine event.  

The migraine event, in the latest NCBI ( National Centers of Biological Information or NIH, National Institute of Health ),  suggests cascade "Potassium flushing" takes place through the neurons of the brain, temporarily destabilizes the critical sodium - potassium ( negative positive ion gate ) differential across cell membraine.   If the delta between Na- and K+ electrolytes are not maintained within range ( for whatever reason, and that is related to genetics and environmental ... which is makes for nightmare individual diagnostics and triggering ), the K is released - thought to be a mutation that serves a function of 're-setting' the gate differential to be at crucial ratio.

It is important to know this stuff ... because,  new aura migraines at middle age, whence the patient has no or very limited prior life-history, is significantly correlated/increasing stroke risk.   Those that are life sufferers, however, this correlation is less; the underlying triggering mechanism is not the same, nor necessarily caused by risk factors associated to a broader spectrum of life styles and/or special circumstance that lead to latter life onset of the condition. 

The science has come a long way.  Medications are useful, but there are often side effects...etc. etc, like all chemistry -based prevention, they're never absolute and may also have secondary risk factors. Usually a tailored approach, that combines diet and other life styles, with medications...   For me, I never went the medication route.   One thing about life-suffers, migraines appear to be gestational modulating.  Usually around between 38 and 50 years of age ... patients report that while aura still takes place, the ability to function and straight up tolerate the pain sequence of the total migraine event, are greatly improved.  I am now in this latter population myself   So, ... 20 to 30 min of aura doesn't ( or hasn't in recent years ... ) immediately preceded an elephant standing on my head, while a Nazi's experiment with peripheral neuropathy ...  A couple of prophylactic Advil ( more so a placebo -) and the headache is more dull in nature.  

I have recently found cutting out simple carbs .. if not entirely, strictly reducing them to very low weekly consumption ( like I don't ever eat white bread, white pasta, soda pop, refined fruit juices - basically, all industrialize sugar concentrates of any kind, period ), and the aura frequency has dropped to almost never.  I had never tried this before... I actually got into doing this dietary measure for other reasons.. .but noticed along the way, 'huh, i have had a migraine in months'

Suffered from these for years-- though they may have been hybrid migraine/tension headaches. Have occasionally experienced auras, but not as migraine precursors. This all culminated a couple of winters ago with several trips in one week to the emergency room, they got so bad. (Though these may have possibly been complications from Lyme disease which I've had too many times, and/or covid). What brings all this up is I was finally prescribed with a common anti-depressant amytriptoline (sp). One pill a night and I haven't experienced  migraine symptoms since September of 2023-- been a real positive life changer! I used to rely on sumatriptin (sp) several times a week which relieved, but headaches would return on the rebound. Now got a whole bunch unused/unneeded. I bring this all up for those searching for relief with a lot of confusing options out there. This is what's worked for me.

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2 minutes ago, Hailstoned said:

Suffered from these for years-- though they may have been hybrid migraine/tension headaches. Have occasionally experienced auras, but not as migraine precursors. This all culminated a couple of winters ago with several trips in one week to the emergency room, they got so bad. (Though these may have possibly been complications from Lyme disease which I've had too many times, and/or covid). What brings all this up is I was finally prescribed with a common anti-depressant amytriptoline (sp). One pill a night and I haven't experienced  migraine symptoms since September of 2023-- been a real positive life changer! I used to rely on sumatriptin (sp) several times a week which relieved, but headaches would return on the rebound. Now got a whole bunch unused/unneeded. I bring this all up for those searching for relief with a lot of confusing options out there. This is what's worked for me.

My sister was a lifer, sometime ending up in the ER when she was younger, but they give her something now that has almost eliminated them, I'll have to ask her what it is, she's 61 now so maybe age related too.

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On 1/18/2025 at 11:57 AM, dendrite said:

I’ve had some bad ones, but they’re usually caffeine related. When I get myself “clean” for a week they pretty much go away for good. Coffee and dark chocolate are my nemeses.

I used to drink caffeine to get rid of headaches, this espresso beans covered in chocolate are so good, probably not for you.

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