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For me its overstimulation. This modern world is too stimulating for our minds and eventually, for me, it causes a migraine. Its especially triggered by large a

For me its overstimulation. This modern world is too stimulating for our minds and eventually, for me, it causes a migraine. Its especially triggered by large amounts of visual information. So programming. Reading news. Browsing reddit etc. There are plenty of theories about how migraines work, but a good number orbit around the idea that the migraine brain is hyper excitable and during the run up to a migraine it loses control over its inputs. So by this reasoning, a migraine is designed to stop you from consuming more information than your mind can handle. The pain of bright light is designed to keep you away from the stimulation of bright light. And the pain of noise to keep you away from stimulating noise.

proverbialbunny 6y ago
It could be eye strain. I suffered from that and migraines and couldn't tell the difference between them. They felt the same, had the same duration, everything about them felt identical.
- plutonorm 6y ago
  Then how do you know one is not the other? Also mine can be triggered by load noises. It was always a mystery to me how I could get hang overs without drinking! Its because overstimulation symptoms and a migraine are what I always thought a hangover was! Turns out a hangover isn't as bad as I thought. Simply drinking at home, the next day I don't get a horrendous headache and feel like every noise is sending shards into my soul.
  - proverbialbunny 6y ago
    >Then how do you know one is not the other? I upgraded to a 4k monitor from 1080p in 2005 and suddenly half of my headaches went away. When the season changed and the sun started coming into my room, those headaches came back. Blackout curtains stopped them. It was a pretty big ah ha! moment, because before that medicine didn't work on my "migraines" because I was suffering from multiple kinds of chronic pain at once.

proverbialbunny 6y ago

It could be eye strain. I suffered from that and migraines and couldn't tell the difference between them. They felt the same, had the same duration, everything about them felt identical.

plutonorm 6y ago
Then how do you know one is not the other? Also mine can be triggered by load noises. It was always a mystery to me how I could get hang overs without drinking! Its because overstimulation symptoms and a migraine are what I always thought a hangover was! Turns out a hangover isn't as bad as I thought. Simply drinking at home, the next day I don't get a horrendous headache and feel like every noise is sending shards into my soul.
- proverbialbunny 6y ago
  >Then how do you know one is not the other? I upgraded to a 4k monitor from 1080p in 2005 and suddenly half of my headaches went away. When the season changed and the sun started coming into my room, those headaches came back. Blackout curtains stopped them. It was a pretty big ah ha! moment, because before that medicine didn't work on my "migraines" because I was suffering from multiple kinds of chronic pain at once.