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[fj]

Strange. I just walked into the cube of a cow-orker, who told me she had just taken medication (Maxalt, orally disintegrating, 10mg) for a migraine. I excused myself, but she said to sit down anyway, because some of what we had to discuss could not wait. While she was fighting to keep the technical conversation on track, I was seeing all the symptoms I knew so well from the outside: the drained color, the hypersensitivity to light (turning to the monitor she looked at a minute ago, she now goes "Ooh that's bright" and turns it off), the slow movement to handle the nausea.

I realized that I became, and ringht now slightly still am, sympathetically nauseous.

Comments

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to learn how to recognize the visual symptoms. K suffers from migraines and was floored by one on Sunday morning.

[fj.livejournal.com]

No need; the patient is sure to tell you.

[tfarrell.livejournal.com]

If you ever see me with a migraine, don't get nauseous thinking about it. I don't get migraine nausea generally.

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

I am quite prone to sympathetic nausea. I remember the first time we took fj to a clinic in Boston for a migraine (nearly 10 years ago, now!). On our way back, we passed by a sports bar with a large young rowdy clientelle. One of patrons who had had a bit too much staggered into the street, and brough up his dinner and drinks for violent display on the sidewalk - he was almost near enough to get some on our shoes.

This almost send me into my own fit of losing my own dinner, and then a weird 4th-grade fantasy of contagious vomiting, resulting in a whole city of vomit.

But that didn't happen; I managed to hold it in.

[houseboi.livejournal.com]

Generally I find that the only thing I wish for during a migraine is instantaneous death. Barring that, I will take my Imitrex injection and experience about 5-10 minutes of painful death, after which the drug stops trying to kill me and turns on my migraine instead.

But you're right--once you've had migraines or loved someone who had them, you can't miss even the most subtle symptoms. I can tell by the weather and subtle behavioral clues when onemintjulep is heading for Migraine City. Very rarely, even before he does.