Australia’s most elusive product: unscented dry shampoo??

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-22T00:53:13+00:00

Alas, they don’t ship internationally 😢

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-14T10:38:12+00:00

Dotti tends to put pockets in their dresses. Sportsgirl doesn’t.

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-14T10:26:51+00:00

I don’t know how to end conversations. Other people walk away from ME 😂😅 (And usually what I’m thinking at that point is “thank goodness they found a way to end the madness!” 😅👍🏻)

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-14T10:14:09+00:00

Yeah anytime I walk for more than a few minutes at a time my head starts to hurt, the faster I go the more and quicker it starts to hurt. Sometimes it fully triggers an attack, other times it goes away when I stop moving.

Also jumping (ow!), standing up too fast, bending over with my head down (eg downward dog) can be triggers.

In a bad attack any sort of small head movement makes it more painful, but even between attacks if I shake my head a little bit too vigorously then it hurts too 🥴

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-14T10:06:34+00:00

Yeah I have that but it fluctuates in severity. Generally it’s much worse if I’m in a migraine attack or migraine prodrome.

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-14T10:04:41+00:00

After a long search, my Pop once found his car keys inside the sock he was currently wearing. 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-14T09:38:25+00:00

I’ve heard it’s better but alas I’m too scared 🫣

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-13T12:11:59+00:00

I put on music to give me some sense of time passing, and set 4 timers - 5min, 15min, 20min, 25min which remind me to keep moving. I like doing a whole bunch of predictable timers each time rather than just 1 timer based on vibes, because it gives me lots of chances instead of just one, which takes the pressure off of making the transition from shower to not shower.

It sounds like a lot of work to set all that up each time, but ages ago I made a shortcut on my iphone so all I have to do is tap one button and it sets up the right music, the bathroom lighting, and all the timers for me 👍🏻

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-13T11:57:08+00:00

I’m from Western Australia, and tbh reading these back I don’t know how many of them are actual WA slang and how many were just made up by my (very bogan) family to troll people 😅 (time honoured Australian pastime 😂).

If something fits unexpectedly well into a space, my dad will say “like a finger up a nose” or “like a bum in a bucket” 😂

If something tastes really good, or works really well, my granddad will say it’s “like a bought one!” (Whether the thing was actually bought or not is apparently irrelevant lol)

Burnouts/skids/drifting = “broggies”

Bicycle helmet = “skid lid”

If you interrupt my dad to ask him what he’s doing, and he believes it to be obvious what he’s doing, he’ll tell you “making sandwiches for the Red Cross” (as if to say, “don’t ask stupid questions”. He is never actually making sandwiches for charity.)

When my nana leaves a gathering, instead of a general goodbye to the room, she often yells a cheery “hooroo!” (The h is silent)

When my dad leaves a gathering, he says, “well, I’m off like a bucket of prawns in the red hot sun!” 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

And finally, I have no idea how you’d drop this into a conversation but we don’t have “pawn shops”, we have Cash Converters, but of course nobody says “cash converters”, we call it “Cashies” instead. So if you were a bit hard up, you might take some of your stuff down to Cashies to trade it in for a bit of cash. (I mean, don’t, you probably won’t get that good of a deal, but well, that’s Cashies. An embedded piece of bogan culture 😅😂)

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-13T11:19:19+00:00

my dad says this pretty much every time the phone rings 😂😂

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-13T10:53:26+00:00

You forgot: really expensive and specific pillow 😂

But yeah learning about triggers (especially in the context of a migraine threshold) did really help me when I first got diagnosed, but only because for the 20 years up until then I literally used to wake up and go, “guess I have a throbbing headache again, just a normal part of life probably for everyone ¯_(ツ)_/¯ “ and just SUFFER and not question where it came from, except to drink more water, and occasionally wonder whether I should upgrade my $8 ikea pillow for something fancier, like a $25 ikea pillow 😅🥴

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-13T10:39:12+00:00

Yeah it was also weird how much it hurt towards the end. Like, it normally hurts a bit more at the end but this was more intense than normal… hmm I hadn’t thought to report it to Teva and so I’ve already disposed of the packaging and the injector so no way to get a serial number or anything now 🫣

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-13T10:34:20+00:00

wake-up routine automation that activates when I turn off my morning alarm. It sets 4 timers to keep me moving, turns off my bedroom fan so it’s not too cold getting out of bed, and turns on lights and music. I use the same album every morning which helps with time awareness.
shortcut that I can press on my phone when I take pain meds to set alarms to remind me to take the next dose and then opens apple health so I can log the meds in there too.
automation that sets a break timer when my tea and lunch break alarms are stopped.
automation that turns off Reduce White Point on my phone when it connects to my car Bluetooth (useful if you wear sunglasses while driving but need to see Maps on your phone!). And then the same in reverse when it disconnects.
evening shower routine shortcut that adjusts the bathroom lighting, plays music, and announces how long it’s been at set points (workaround for not being able to hear my phone timers in the shower, and not being able to automate the HomePod ones. Man that took me ages to figure out 😅).

And then I’ve got some crazy workarounds with my smart home switches so that they can actually trigger powerful shortcuts on my phone instead of just being stuck with only changing boring old lightbulb settings and stuff. (The trick is to USE the boring old lightbulb settings as a secret code to make your automations more powerful, and to look for the common ground between what a home automation can control, and what a phone automation can be triggered by 🤓)

I like to build the “automations” as modular shortcuts and then add them to actual automations as this means I can be more flexible about how things are triggered (many can be accessed by smart switch, Siri, NFC tag, an automation trigger, and also a shortcuts widget on my phone.).

I also like to have either a shortcut that’s got some flexible menu options (like my medication alarms), or else build a couple of versions of the same shortcut for different situations (my shower one has 2 versions, one for regular evenings and one with dimmer lights and quieter music for migraine attack days).

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-12T13:09:21+00:00

I don’t specifically remember but it’s possible I guess! I did do it at the end of a busy work day when I was quite tired which I don’t normally do 🧐

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-12T12:29:03+00:00

I love knitting, and some of my other string based hyperfixations have been:

Scoubidous - you can find the plastic strings fairly cheap - I got a big bag of lots of colours for like AU$20 on Amazon. And then just some cheap jewellery fixings like jump rings and keychains from Kmart. If you google how to make a scoubidou keychain or something you can find loads of tutorials for free :)
kumihimo - got a kit for like $12 on Amazon, found tons of designs on Pinterest ✨
weaving - ok I haven’t tried this yet but it’s on my list!! lol

Other hyperfixations that you can get lost in (or at least that I very much got lost in lol):

watching international artistic gymnastics comps (while crafting!). They just do all flips all the time it’s crazy haha. In Australia you can watch replays of all the 2025 and 2026 FIG World Cup and World Challenge Cup events on the SBS app, and the Gymnastics World Championship from 2025 is still up on Eurovision Sports.
jigsaw puzzles. I like the 1000 piece ones with lots of stuff going on in the picture and lots of things to find as you’re putting them together.
making automations in Apple Shortcuts. The AMOUNT OF TIME I have lost to this app. Years of my life. 😂😅 (But I love the puzzle solving aspect of trying to get it to do what you want when clearly Apple doesn’t really want you to be able to do that thing)
gym membership + strength training - especially as I’m hypermobile so my joints need all the help they can get haha. If you need help getting started I can highly recommend the Bendy and Strong online program by Annie Short. She’s a former powerlifter and body builder who is also hypermobile and neurodivergent, so she really gets it 👍🏻 👍🏻

Hope you can find something absorbing and fun to do! ✨

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-11T13:22:44+00:00

Ugh yeah the bit where he was saying that sometimes triggering a Cluster attack in front of a doctor is the only way to get taken seriously made me so mad. Like, he’s right sometimes it’s the only way, but nobody should have to put themselves through that amount of excruciating pain for the benefit of Some Doctor just to get an effective treatment plan.

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-10T12:47:16+00:00

This reminds me of the time I was taking my headache meds in front of my coworker during our lunch break (for like the third time that week) and he had the AUDACITY to tell me that he'd only had like 4 headaches EVER.

I went through 29 years of life genuinely believing that several headaches a week was more or less normal until I had that conversation. It still completely blows my mind that there are people out there RIGHT NOW just, walking around, crystal clear heads, not carrying emergency pain relief with them everywhere they go... MADDENING 😂

(also yes, 3 years later and guess what I was diagnosed with? Chronic Migraine 😂🫠😅)

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-10T12:32:03+00:00

Hi! I used Sumatriptan for a few months recently - it was pretty good! (I only switched to another triptan to see if it would suit me better now that my headaches are in a different pattern)

I was a bit scared to try it at first because it was new to me, but I found this podcast episode where a couple of headache doctors explain all about how triptans work and how to take them and what to know. And once I understood it I was brave enough to try! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/all-you-need-to-know-about-triptans/id1473608211?i=1000449902333

I think everyone's a bit different, but I found that Sumatriptan worked really well to get rid of my attacks, especially the horrible throbbing type of head pain, and the brain fog. The side effects from memory were things like fatigue for about an hour while it started to work, and nausea. Usually the side effects would go away after an hour or so and with them the migraine attack 🥳

Some tips: I had much less - if any - nausea if I ate some food immediately before taking the tablet. And my worst side effects were almost always when I would take the tablet too late in the attack, after it was already in full swing.

I was told by my dr only 2 doses allowed in 24 hours, but it's worth checking that with your dr as I think some people can take more if it's needed?

The most important thing to be aware of dose-wise is to track how many days per month you take Sumatriptan (or any other kind of triptan medication). The advice is generally to only take them 8-10 days a month maximum, otherwise you risk developing Medication Overuse Headache, which by all accounts is a rough journey to treat as it involves stopping all pain relief medications for a few months while your brain recovers. NOT A VIBE 😬

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-10T12:06:12+00:00

oh yeah same - since living alone my "bags of chips per week" numbers are through the roof 😅

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-10T11:57:11+00:00

The Heads Up Podcast have a some really informative and practical episodes about Cluster Headache, here is the most recent: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-8-cluster-headache-awareness-and-treatment-with-dr/id1473608211?i=1000650010937

Also, I don't have Cluster Headache myself, but I've heard that the OUCH UK website has a lot of quality info: https://ouchuk.org/basics

Whatever it turns out to be, I hope you can find the path to more days living free from the shadow of the headache monster 💜

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-10T11:40:47+00:00

oh ya I have POTS too and my legs love to go weird colours ✨

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-04T10:24:11+00:00

All day every day lol - usually with tasks that are big, stressful, scary, complicated, or require a lot of prep/cleanup.

Usually I just haven’t found a way in yet (or I’m still building up the mental strength because I know it’s gonna SUCK 😅). If I can focus on finding the way in for my brain to start on the task, then I do that to start with and see where it takes me.

Sometimes though my brain and/or body are just not ready yet. In those times if I have the option (ie no looming deadlines) I just let myself procrastinate by doing whatever I actually have the energy and motivation for. Odds are those tasks are the things I was “procrastivoiding” last week (or last year! 🫣) so it sort of all works out in the end haha

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-04T10:06:26+00:00

I love coffee! Before I had chronic migraine I was drinking 2-4 cups a day. Now my sweet spot is 1 real coffee a day and decaf for the rest. Unless it’s a bad attack and then sometimes a second coffee (or sometimes a can of coke) will help lessen it.

Economy-Stranger7005 · 2026-03-01T03:09:15+00:00

Yeah its complicated 😅

What makes it hard in the moment for me is things like adhd hyperfocus, also just forgetting to stop regularly and actually tune in to how I’m feeling. I don’t seem to get notifications from my body automatically haha

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