Okay, flist, I need some very specific recs

[ratherastory]

So the migraine fairy is visiting, and if I'm going to suffer, the boys had damned well better suffer with me. :P

I've read a couple of great stories with migraines/headaches in them (*waves to dante_s_hell, and pixymisa), and there are some others out there that I read and then lost the link to.

I've taken my meds and can now look at my computer screen without dying, so now I'm asking for recs. Anyone got some good migraine/headache recs? I don't care if it's gen, wincest, j2, whatever.

spnstoryfinders is a wash, alas, although I may make a request post there too. :)

Help a girl out?

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[surevesta.livejournal.com]

Oh hon *huggles* I get those periodically :( Soooo not fun. Do you get sparkly lights and a traveling blindspot sometimes?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I do get an aura, but it goes with fuzzy vision, flashes of light, and coloured spots.

In fact, the coloured spots were something I got all the time (aura without the migraine), to the point that when the neurologist asked me about them (I was eight), I kind of blinked at him and said: "You mean not everybody sees those?" and he laughed. :D

[surevesta.livejournal.com]

:( I get flashing lights from time to time, and occasionally sparks that flit through my vision that look like the edge of the blind spot (the aura I believe). Sometimes I get it like a snake through my vision that just blurs it and makes it kind of like bright lights and othertimes (more often) I get a black spot surrounded by the lights/blurry.

I like to do nothing but curl up and sleep when I get these, even with medication.

When I was playing WoW, I once raided with my eyes shut (Hey I was pally tank ... and only one idiot mage died.) Normally I just go hide under the covers and call in sick unless I have an exam or an important meeting thing.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Mine have improved by leaps and bounds over the years. Between the ages of eight and twenty they were pretty much crippling: it was go hide in my room with the curtains drawn and sleep anywhere from five hours to a whole day, and sometimes longer.

Now I can take my meds, sleep for an hour or so, and generally be functional for the rest of the time. Not always. I also get far fewer migraines than before. A handful a year, tops, whereas before I used to get two a week.

Playing WoW with your eyes closed? That's pretty hardcore. :D

[surevesta.livejournal.com]

It was mostly Mt. Hyjal trash pulls... I generally didn't tank the bosses there often (although I tanked most at least once). Plus as a Pally tank I had my commands pretty well memorized... at least with the way Pallies were prior to the last expansion.

Yeah... well I got it in the middle of a raid and didn't want to ruin it for everyone else since there was no back up for me.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I maintain: hardcore. :D