What chronic neurological issue do you have that causes such long migraines?
It’s the migraines. Migraines are a neurological disorder. Mine are just super bad. Better than they used to be (used to get 20+ a month) but still bad.
I finally got a migraine diagnosis and access to a specialist in the last year and it’s wild that people don’t know how serious it can be.
Like I was experiencing them and I still tried to downplay them (mostly out of internalized ableism that I’m still fighting) but they’re so much more than a really bad headache.
They’re more disabling for me than my actual genetic disability. And part of my genetic disability causes spontaneous idiopathic anaphylaxis. It’s fucked up when I start having reactions, and I’m like, “Oh good, it’s just my throat closing and not a migraine.”
Like fucking what.
People do not understand how serious migraines are, and how they are so much more than ‘just a bad headache’.
My spouse is a chronic migraine sufferer, and there’s the debilitating disorientation and nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and difficulty speaking just for starters. And it can last days.
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