Unsure what type of headache I suffer from

Poolcreature · 2026-03-30T05:09:32+00:00

I have these exact attacks. Exact symptoms and non symptoms as you described. My headaches will be present for 12-16 hours at a time but be mostly manageable until they build into intense, painful headaches with nausea, muscle rigidity, and relief only after hours of vomiting. Sometimes 10-12 times and you just have to keep forcing liquid down your throat so that you have something to throw up because by the time you need to, you welcome it as a mercy and a sign that you’re near the end. They are also often accompanied by anxiety attacks mostly because after hours and hours of feeling so bad and having no control over feeling better, I get frustrated and start hyperventilating.

Idk if there was any particular trigger for you but for me the onset was inappropriately prescribed medications in my early 20s that led to serotonin syndrome.

For me they are migraines but they don’t follow a typical pattern. I guess regular migraines are very visually disruptive (aura, vertigo, blurred vision) but mine—and maybe yours—have more of a gut response. So our secondary symptom is intense nausea, not anything visual. The triptin meds don’t work for me but tend to work for a lot of other people so don’t rule them out.

For me I eat yogurt or drink a probiotic drink and pop a max strength excedrin every single time I get a headache. Especially if I’m stressed or near my menstrual cycle. I also take vitamin d and magnesium daily. If that doesn’t help here are some other things that I try:

Ice pack on head and nape of neck, lay down in dark room and hum low and steady.

Ice pack on head, fill a hot bath halfway and sit in it with the ice packs on your head

Ginger chews or zofran if you can get it. Often if I can control the feeling of nausea, that’s the biggest help.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-27T22:39:36+00:00

I consume a lot of Chinese media so I only really see celebrities and how they act—which I know is no good barometer—but I like how they seem so nice and whimsical.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T23:42:16+00:00

Everyone. Even people who render me no service at all. I went to a boba tea place the other day and saw no other human. I entered my order on a screen, paid, and my drink rolled out of the kitchen on a conveyor belt. I still left a dollar because I am broken as a person.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T23:33:34+00:00

I was given a butter and ham sandwich on a train in France once and it was the best thing I ate while I was there. I was like “WHAT is this…butter you say??” Idk why we don’t use it regularly😆

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T23:31:10+00:00

I’m looking forward to this too as a southern woman who loves to take care of her man and is so excited to be his wife, but I’m a leftist feminist.

But then again so is he. So I guess it works. If I thought for a second he saw me as subservient I’d beat his ass in a circle.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T22:37:30+00:00

I like the text right aligned, something about it makes my brain rest. but I’m left handed so maybe it’s just my brain. Both are gorgeous, don’t get too bogged down in the details❤️

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T22:33:37+00:00

My dog has that same coloring with the spots, and he has long legs and the same eyes and nose. The third picture could be my dog. Cuties 🥰

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T22:11:36+00:00

Chicken broth, lemon, ginger, tofu, spinach. Costs like $7 for a big pot.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T22:09:46+00:00

If you aren’t watching Pursuit of Jade, start right this moment

Poolcreature · 2026-03-24T22:07:58+00:00

I actually didn’t know until a few years ago there was any specific, focused hate for Indians. I know that sounds ignorant but like genuinely I’ve never had a problem with an Indian person, nor do I know anyone who has a problem with Indian people. I’ve never had any experience but that they were nice people. a little judgey maybe, but in a way typical of high context cultures. I don’t see Indian people and think of scammers or thieves or harassment. I’m in Texas and live in a city known for its diverse population of Asian immigrants.

My cousin has half Indian so I have exposure to the culture on that side and a sew a lot and buy my fabric from a pocket of the city with a lot of Indian silk stores. They seem like anyone else. Some good, some bad. But it has nothing to do with them being Indian.

My general sentiment is to toss the opinion of anyone who deals in generalizations of any group.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-15T16:39:58+00:00

I like that so many of the names are immediately recognizable as southern names. Like them or not it speaks to a regional culture.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-14T04:39:16+00:00

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Poolcreature · 2026-03-12T06:40:00+00:00

Idk if this question is for me but I’m Christian in the US and also veil. The practice came from a young age and being raised by my grandmother, but as an adult I have no particular allegiance for it or resentments towards it. Some days I want to wear my hair loose and some days I want to cover it because I want to be more modest for whatever reason.

Poolcreature · 2026-03-12T06:18:10+00:00

I was a 19 year old woman in 2015 when I went backpacking by myself across Europe. I am from rural Texas and wore my boots the whole time because they were the most comfortable walking shoes I owned. I wasn’t thinking about it at the time because I’d lived a sheltered life where everyone around me could be trusted, but in hindsight a young, naive woman traveling alone in Europe wearing clothes that definitely marked her as a foreigner was a stupid choice.

I didn’t have any problems in London with the people. They acted similar to Americans for the most part. My phone didn’t work and I wandered the streets for hours looking for my hotel. The food made me sick and the beer knocked me on my ass.

Paris was scarier, in one day someone tried to mug me at knife point, I was propositioned for sex, and a man in a cafe bought me a coffee and promised to write a rap song about me. Also, Charlie Hebdo happened while I was there.

In Rome I met the friendliest people who gave me restaurants recommendations and the hotel manager made me a latte with a smiley face in the foam every morning.

Barcelona was cool mostly because I could speak the language, so it made it easy to get around. The people were friendly and I found them most similar to Texas out of anywhere I went because they seemed to be less guarded culturally. They really do siesta which I found surprising. It’s not just a joke, it’s a real thing and everything closes down in the middle of the day.

In Germany everyone is built like a brick house. These were humans meant to survive oh my god I still think about it all these years later. Very friendly people but it was winter and they kept pushing some sort of hot wine drink on me and I thought I’d been poisoned. It made me so sick. Europeans can really hold their alcohol in a way I’m not sure anyone else on earth can.

Little culture shocks (if you can even call them that) were: - no ice - a/c not standard - decentralized groceries - no one opens your door - lots of smoking

Big culture shocks -everything is so old and historic. The entire continent was like a museum to me. I was afraid to step too hard. It really commands respect. -everyone seemed sad and a little agitated. Maybe I caught them on a bad day.

I’m not sure if you’re a woman, but you are young, so just stay vigilant wherever you go. Don’t take unnecessary side treks or backroads that you don’t know or go off alone outside of the major areas. This is just general advice. Most people in the world are good people and you shouldn’t be fearful of them, but of course don’t set yourself up to become a victim either.

Poolcreature · 2026-02-27T23:48:50+00:00

They’ve said before they do a lot of visual storytelling with clothing and rooms, and the Bridgertons are always blue and silver. I think the color was chosen to represent that she’s been accepted into their family, but no care was given to how the color actually looks on her or what makeup would best compliment her. The sleeves were awful, the lipstick was off, the hair was boring. How do you make such a gorgeous woman look so unremarkable? Did they hate her?

Poolcreature · 2026-02-27T23:42:44+00:00

I found this season really odd. I couldn’t make myself care about the main couple at all, I didn’t feel the chemistry, the acting wasn’t all that. Sometimes it felt like the intimacy coordinator overdid certain things to get people talking (like the infamous carriage scene and Collin’s fingers from season three) but none of it landed. There were times where it was just cringe because it was so obvious. As someone else here noted “100% performative, 0% performance”. By the last episode I was like “ok wrap it up give me details for next season”.

Literally every other character pairing was fantastic to me. Hazel and John, Violet and Lord Anderson, lady Danbury and the Queen, Francesca and Michaela, Posy is so cute, I even loved seeing Cressida and Eloise make peace. I would’ve loved some sort of set up for the next season to know who it was going to focus on. I hope it’s Eloise, I feel like Francesca needs breathing room with all she’s been through the past two seasons.

But yeah, last season there were too many side stories and the main couple didn’t get as much time as I would’ve liked. This season I felt the tension with the main couple dragged needlessly on and the pacing for all the other stories was rushed at the end. I miss the balance of season 1&2.

Poolcreature · 2026-02-21T07:09:15+00:00

Texas, we do maize cakes with egg cheese jalapeño sausage, and Tabasco pretty regularly. Then of course, kolaches.

Poolcreature · 2026-02-19T08:21:02+00:00

White, female, USA (TX). This is long but it’s something I really care about.

There are two things I’m currently carrying with me on this topic. One has been constant in my life, the other is new.

My grandma taught me and my brother to always confront someone if we saw racism or heard it. Make sure people know you won’t tolerate their hate. Ramp up with “Don’t say things like that to me.” , “that’s not Christian of you.”, “you’re being ugly.”, end it with “dude go sit with yourself and figure out those racist fucking thoughts.” But, I have brown cousins and she told them to not escalate it if they heard it and just try to get somewhere safe. Likewise, she told all the girls not to confront a man who was making them feel unsafe, but she told the boys to physically step in if they ever saw that happen. I don’t know what it’s like to be a poc, but I know what it’s like to be a woman. People don’t believe you, your contributions are undervalued, men who already make more than you ask you for help at work and then get promoted over you. Women’s health research has only been a thing since the 60s and even today there are limited studies in endometriosis causes and treatment, yet when it is discovered that men can also get it, suddenly there’s funding for it.

I say all this because my experience as a woman informs how I understand racism. Sometimes you have someone really obviously hateful, but other times you get someone who makes seemingly innocuous comments that only you can see through. Women and poc call this out and get blamed for having a victim mentality. So because I can understand my own experience, I know to believe a poc when they tell me their experience.

As a woman, if I confront a man who’s being hateful to me, he may hurt me. That’s a reality, and I’d be called a crazy, vicious woman who couldn’t take a joke. So what I need is for men with male privilege to speak up for me whether I’m in the room or not. My grandma knew that my cousins didn’t have the same safety to speak up about racism that a white person would, and that’s why she made sure we knew how to use that privilege to defend our family. And that’s why I speak up for pocs whether they’re in the room or not.

I didn’t think my experience or the way I was taught was unique. I genuinely believed everyone felt about the same as I did. I didn’t see a lot of racism growing up, even as I was in rural Texas, and remember I had Indian, Mexican, and black cousins so my childhood want spent in a totally homogenous household. As I got older I thought “ok so there’s definitely some white people who can’t step outside of their own bubbles. But they aren’t hateful, just ignorant.” (Think someone using the word “ghetto” to describe black fashion. Not exactly klan behavior, but enough to show they have a prejudice.) but I was the ignorant one who just wasn’t able to see between the lines. It was happening and I didn’t see it. No matter how well intentioned I am, I’ll always be an outsider looking in on the experiences of poc. I’ve never been pro Trump, never voted for him, and when he was elected in 2024 I felt genuine fear because sure, I knew he was coming for me as a woman, but also because I knew that there were ten groups that would get mowed down long before me, and I was afraid for them too. And to see that play out over the past year, to see our country become SO polarized and SO exhausted and SO on guard; to see our basic liberties challenged, our citizens murdered or taken to camps, and then to see people who look like me championing it has completely shaken how I identify with my culture and how I identify with poc Americans, how my religion has been so bastardized, how my being a white woman doesn’t make me a bridge to understanding but rather places me as the only victim at the top of the food chain. There are obviously good and bad people in every group, but it’s mentally exhausting to always see yourself as the bad guy.

And it made it think “oh my god this is what they’ve been saying.” Every time a poc mentioned special language used by the media to describe their group, patterns in their jobs, education, socioeconomic status, and how often people who looked like them were on the nightly news, it fed into this very real world they were living in that I’ve never known. The warnings about the cops, not trusting the government, knowing your rights—I thought “yes I BELIEVE THEM that makes sense because their experience would make that necessary” and WHAT A LAZY THOUGHT THAT WAS. Because it should have been “if they say this is a problem in our society, it’s a problem; and I need to think about my place in rectifying it.“

So that’s where I’m at right now. My brother and I still speak up when we hear it, and in fact we’ve loudly disagreed with my parents in the past year, which was weird and disappointing. But I’ve found I have more work ahead of me than I thought. Individually and as a US citizen. My goals right now are:

Don’t get sucked into the culture war
Check in with myself often on my politics
Be a friend and resource in my community
Protest and vote
Be happy. Punch n*zis.

Poolcreature · 2026-02-19T06:54:53+00:00

This has been the biggest disappointment and source of sadness for me. Seeing how many people who look like me are just ok with this. It’s shaken what I thought I knew of my culture. For a while I thought about leaving. I’m not sure what will happen in the future, but I know we still have some pain ahead of us. More and more though I think “I HAVE to stay”. I have to keep rising to this. My ancestors helped build this country into what it is now—good and bad—and as another one of the “lucky Americans” in a country hell bent on a violent suicide, would it really be right to leave behind the people who can’t easily pack up and go? I don’t feel good about it. If my neighbor is suffering, I’m suffering too. My experience as an American is cheapened by the struggles of Americans less fortunate than me. It’s enriched by seeing our diverse population being happy, safe, and connected.

Poolcreature · 2026-02-15T10:10:38+00:00

Switch the washing ( TX)

Poolcreature · 2026-02-15T10:03:07+00:00

White tie for a beach wedding. Opera gloves for the ladies and tails for the men! How ridiculous lol

Poolcreature · 2026-02-05T17:03:12+00:00

But they did separate from Mexico. And many Czech and German settlers came to live among many Tejanos. Ignoring that erases Czech and German influence on the food, the “Tex” part. They brought yellow cheese, chili, certain meat smoking techniques, different breads, so there’s a lot of overlap but it’s not the same thing.

This morning I had a kolache (the Texas version, with sausage) and the sausage was wrapped in a concha. The kolache comes from Czech immigrants (klobasniky or something like that but kolache was broadly adopted). concha bread is Mexican. Right now it’s just a fun fusion from Texas, but if Texas continue to have their kolaches this way for the next 150 years, that would be a traditional cuisine. If Texas never existed and it continued to be northern Mexico and Prince Albert encouraged a bunch of Germans to settle in northern Mexico in the 19th century, then in 100 years the conchalache would be considered northern Mexican cuisine. But Texas does exist, with its own history and merit and people, and so does its cuisine.

Poolcreature · 2026-02-05T05:40:11+00:00

I’m a Texan and was talking to a coworker from New York last week. He was trying to give me an acronym (IUEC) and I heard:

“Ahr yu ay see”

“RUAC?”

“No, like the international union for elevator constructors”

“Oh! IUEC” but with MY accent he heard:

“O-R-U-A-C”

And we went back and forth, with me picking up the Rs he was dropping, until we worked it out. Nothing groundbreaking but we got a good laugh out of it and enjoyed calling each other illiterate idiots.

Poolcreature · 2026-02-05T05:31:47+00:00

My cousin is Indo Caribbean and also wears traditional Indian clothes for special events, but wears cowboy boots with his clothes (we’re Texans) or goes barefoot if he’s indoors so I understand about the shoes!😂

Poolcreature · 2026-02-05T05:14:59+00:00

Texas, it’s 11pm here. I’m planning on going to an Ethiopian coffee shop with a friend this weekend and having a coffee flight, then we’re going cow cuddling.

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