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Let me just copy/paste what I commented the last time this article was posted: > The pain is protective because it’s telling the person to rest and recover and

by elric 2y ago

Let me just copy/paste what I commented the last time this article was posted: > The pain is protective because it’s telling the person to rest and recover and sleep Try telling that to people who have pain so intense they end up in a cycle of vomiting and sleeping for a period of 72 hours. > the brain experiences a blackout called a cortical spreading depression (CSD), when neuronal activity shuts down for a short time Blackout does not sound like a good description. CSD travels across the cortex in a "wave", where the part currently affected by the wave is depolarized. Nothing is shutting down. There are a lot of people who get migraine headaches without aura, and there are a lot of people who get migraine auras without headaches. The article doesn't seem to take that into account at all, and I can't seem to find a link to the research? The DOI link just points at the same short article? Edit: I don't mean to sound like a debbie downer. I'm happy with any and all migraine research, and this seems to look at things from a different perspective, which might lead to new discoveries.

Buttons840 2y ago
> a cycle of vomiting and sleeping for a period of 72 hours I've been in such cycles, though mine usually last for about 6 to 12 hours only. That's long enough. I always figured the stress of my migraine caused my body to say, "okay, get all the food out, we shouldn't be digesting anything at a time like this". I've vomited 20 to 30 times in a night before. And the weird part is, I actually have good memories of these times. The exhaustion and sleep that follow are amazing, and I feel especially good the next day. I've read sometimes migraines have a serotonin effect, maybe there's some chemical reason my brain decides in retrospect that it was a good experience. I recently saw a Veritasium video about how the ending of an experience shapes our memory of it [0], maybe the relief of the migraine finally subsiding is a good ending and shapes my memory of it. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4r71kEdYME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4r71kEdYME

by elric 2y ago

Buttons840 2y ago

> a cycle of vomiting and sleeping for a period of 72 hours I've been in such cycles, though mine usually last for about 6 to 12 hours only. That's long enough. I always figured the stress of my migraine caused my body to say, "okay, get all the food out, we shouldn't be digesting anything at a time like this". I've vomited 20 to 30 times in a night before. And the weird part is, I actually have good memories of these times. The exhaustion and sleep that follow are amazing, and I feel especially good the next day. I've read sometimes migraines have a serotonin effect, maybe there's some chemical reason my brain decides in retrospect that it was a good experience. I recently saw a Veritasium video about how the ending of an experience shapes our memory of it [0], maybe the relief of the migraine finally subsiding is a good ending and shapes my memory of it. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4r71kEdYME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4r71kEdYME