allonsybadwolf

of critters in clover

In 2026 TdF starts on Saturday, July 4th!

For many of us that is tomorrow; got your fibre ready?

TdF runs from July 4 - 26 2026, with rest days (if you observe them) on Mondays the 13th and 20th.

turns out

it was definitely my favorite boba place at my favorite mall. I sent op an ask with this photo when I was leaving the mall earlier (I don't think they've seen it yet but I was astounded)

you guys would all have loved my (not on tumblr) spouses reaction when he went "oh no the kiosk is gone" and I immediately said LOST JOB FROM TUMBLR?!?

Which also made them really good at they search and rescue at sea. Sorta the same principle, they would peck at a key that would alert the pilot if they saw a person.

poormura: "A lot of our "triggers" and "bad habits" are FROM the migraine, not the opposite.

I saw someone making a post about how what they [thought] was sugar triggering their migraine was actually a symptom, so I wanted to share something.

I've been migraine attack free almost the whole month. I still get some pain and other symptoms, but none like before.

Now [suddenly] sleep is better (ironic since I'm [posting] at 1am but trust me), my productivity is better, I've been able to eat everything, I barely feel depressed anymore.

All of those things that people either claimed to be the cause of my migraines or simply my own lack of care are all almost gone, just like the migraine [attacks]."

2occupantsandababy: "Yep.

When I was a kid we always thought that low blood sugar or skipping snacks cause my migraines. Because I'd skip a snack or refuse a meal and then I'd get a migraine. Seems logical right?

As an adult I'm able to recognise that food aversion is one of my earliest migraine symptoms. The smell sensitivity and nausea start hours to days before the headache.

Skipping meals didn't cause my migraines. I was already having the migraine when I skipped the meal."

luna_balloona: "This is such an important thing to bring awareness to! I think it's especially important because it can help people get out of a self-blame mindset too. Like you can know it's not your fault for skipping meals, or someone who has a craving for chocolate or something it's not their fault that they got the migraine because they weren't careful enough or didn't have the self control or something. Especially anything food related can carry extra weight in our minds too since there's alraedy a lot of mental/social/cultural stuff tied to food consumption."

Cosmeregirl, replying: "This so much. I always felt so lazy with migraines and blamed myself- now I know if I'm so sleepy it feels like I took benadryl, it's because I have a migraine coming on. And knowing that it's a symptom, I can take my med sooner to head off the migraine."

SyArch: ""Migraine Brain" is real. My Duke headache neuro calls it a type of brain. Sugar isn't causing it neither is anything else we apply or eat or do to ourselves inadvertently or otherwise. Amen. ;)"

purplepineapple21: "I've been seeing medical and scientific experts saying this for like, >6 years, especially about the concept of trigger foods. The latest research supports the theory you're positing here, like for example it's becoming widely accepted among experts that migraine prodrome causes food cravings before you may even know you're in prodrome.

The one time I bothered going to the er they gave me zofran, Benadryl and a dose of steroids so high that after I woke up from the Benadryl I didn't get back to sleep for another 30 hours. Like I was actually on a low dose at the time, 1-2mg medrol, and they gave me 125mg. Never trusted the er for a migraine again. And imetrex felt like getting kicked in the chest by a horse.

Unfortunately food as trigger has been pretty scientifically and categorically demonstrated for me as I get migraines in response to inadvertent cross contam that has nothing to do with cravings. Wheat, smoke, sulfites and mold (think blue cheese) are reliable triggers. Even when I'm not the one in charge of what I'm eating and don't know there's an exposure I can often peg a migraine to a specific trigger. (Example: roommate bought meatballs and missed that they had breadcrumbs. I got a migraine, asked for the brand, looked up ingredients and there it was)

I can't peg the cause of every migraine because some are things that I don't follow data for, like mast cell reactions and weather and hormone fluctuation. But the worst ones, it's usually obvious. Take mask off during smoke weather instant migraine, put mask back on it calms down is so bleedin' obvious.