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this is what long covid feels like [CW: body horror illustration, occasional art nudity]

Treatment: Migraine Management

the figure, wearing a helmet, is surrounded by desserts. The helmet is a large dark over-the-eye compression ice hat with a notch for the nose. Floating around the figure in pink, purple, and sea foam green are a donut, cookie, gummy bear, iced beverage, cupcake and cake slice. The stomach and esophagus are drawn on and empty. The figure's feet are submerged in purple, highly detailed swirling water. The feet are colored in pink, as though burning from the water's heat. Each area is labeled with a line citing examples 1-3 like a scientific figure

Treatment: Migraine Management 1. compression ice hat 2. no added sugar 3. feet in HOT water

During my forced hiatus, I developed aggressively chronic migraines, and managed to learn these three tools. I still get migraines almost every single day, and often multiple times a day, but they do help make the migraines less severe.

Thank you to my wonderful fediverse friends for these tips. You can follow this blog on the fediverse (decentralized internet including Mastodon, Bookwyrm, Lemmy, etc) as @illmarks .

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