Information and opinions on health from Karilen at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/99757/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/99757/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/99757/index http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/99757/111904/friends-visit Tue, 18 May 2010 10:31:00 -0400 Karilen Ups and downs...not unique to life as a migrainuer in the general sense, but I suppose we have a particular flavor of focus, battles, and celebrations. Recently I believe I had 12 days in between severe headaches. Right now it has been 1 week.   I am in Ottawa spending time with my sweetheart, and I wonder if I should go get massage or acupuncture. The pressure has built up to a dull constant energy-draining pain now. Seems to be a... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/99757/111904/friends-visit http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/99757/107045/devotion Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:45:00 -0400 Karilen Here you are again, greeting me with the intensity of a hot unrelenting force-field Throw me off balance, Deprive me of my fun Abduct me from my desires... Wait. Am I a victim? Just because you show up, like a familiar but unwelcome friend? Unannounced? Or did I not listen? Not a friend -- I don't embrace you Until You have me Pinned to the floor in the dark, curled in a ball Doubting sanity and Existence. Is that why you... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/99757/107045/devotion http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/99757/104689/wondering Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:03:07 -0500 Karilen Ideally, I would like to offer some resources and educational articles here, but my tendency is to journal in a reflective way, so as a warm up I will just get started and hope perhaps this may encourage or inform others in some way on their own healing journey.   It has been 14 days since the last migraine, and about 25 days since the last one before that. I did have one tension type (a continual, widespread, dull, burning ache) 3 weeks... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/99757/104689/wondering