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“Wildfire-sourced fine particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM2.5) was associated with a 6% increase in emergency department visits for migraine and headache. There was no significant link between PM2.5 and emergency department visits on nonwildfire days, and the associations were attenuated in the least materially and socially deprived areas.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2853042

Particularly interests me as a climate scientist with chronic migraine

Do migraine and these psychiatric disorders have “shared immunogenetics mechanisms”? This study starts to explore:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42581340/

“Conclusion: Digital screen exposure is associated with approximately 60% greater odds of migraine or headache, with biologically plausible mechanisms but low-certainty evidence drawn almost entirely from cross-sectional studies. Screen exposure should be regarded as a modifiable, clinically assessable factor in migraine care, while prospective, objectively measured, and interventional research is needed to establish causality and to test targeted mitigation strategies.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42603831/

I am looking for a PCP in Wisconsin. Any suggestions?

I’m already diagnosed. I have amazing specialists. I don’t need this person to manage really anything. All I want is a PCP who won’t tell me to try yoga and a GLP1 every time I see them like my PCP did today. I have tried 5 different PCPs here, a couple random and a couple after a ton of research, and all have been horrible, just telling me to do graded exercise therapy and do gentle water aerobics, mean while I’m crying that I can’t shower, cook, clean, etc. Again, my other doctors are amazing and manage my care, but when I need a primary for like a routine little lab thing or referral and just to meet with once a year to say I have a primary, I can’t stand going into a crash from crying over them telling me to just try yoga. My bar for a primary is so low that they can know nothing about anything I have (ME, POTS, MCAS, hEDS) if they keep their mouth shut and never ever tell me to exercise even after I send them resources on why that’s bad.

I’ve had chronic daily migraine for a decade, along with ME/CFS. Some days are better than others. I’ve been able to push through many days of my life when I need to and really want to do something. Not today. My whole family gathered at my parents house for a party for me and I missed it all. My migraine was so deeply unbearable today. All I could even text was sorry bad migraine. I couldn’t even explain or say I’m not coming, I unjokingly couldn’t look at a phone from the light or talk because hearing my own voice I’d just vomit from the pain of the noise. One of the worst migraines ever in my 10 years. I had to be 100% still eye closed. Finally after a few hours I could bear to at least cancel. They all had made food for the party that I missed. I feel horrible. I just needed to rant.

My lease states I have to tell my landlord if I’m renewing or leaving 60 days before my lease ends. That’s 1 week away. But I still haven’t gotten any renewal offer/new lease to sign with what the new rent price will be. I’m definitely not being kicked out/not given an offer, I live in an expensive place and pay my rent on time and keep it impeccable. I contacted them a month ago and they said oh the company that owns them just hadn’t prepared the lease renewal yet. I’m nervous rent is going up a ton and I was hoping I would have time before resigning to see the new rent price and look at other places if it was crazy high to help make my decision. Even if they give it to me Monday, it will be due Friday. Is it normal to give such little time?? Just looking for other experiences. Not what they legally have to do.

Grief and breakups are horrible for everyone. Life feels paused but others can physically do things, even just go to work and get groceries and make meaningless memories that start to distance you from the grief in some small way, some ability to grow your world around it or do things to take your mind off it.

I experienced a major breakup right before getting so sick. We had a dream of staying best friends but that was smashed too as I had to move across the country to live with family as I got too sick. It’s been years, and I haven’t moved on at all, and I know it’s because I physically haven’t moved from my room much at all. I haven’t met anyone new (friends, even just humans). I don’t and can’t talk to almost anyone. I have nothing going on. So it’s pathetic but I’m still grieving the loss of our relationship several years later and haven’t moved on because my life has stood still since then. There is nothing at all to cover the time. I’m frozen like I was then. I’m grieving that I’m not healthy enough to move on and I’m still missing them.

Would love to listen if you can relate.

Hi all. I’m sure many of you know this sub, but I just thought I’d share:
r/FindTheSniper

I’m not a mod or anything of it, I just like it. People post photos of just real life scene where something is hidden and say what thing is hidden, and then people try to find it and guess where it is in the comments.

It is fun to just see photos of the outside world when housebound, of everyday scenes, nothing fancy or picture-perfect, just the ground where they dropped something or a rabbit in a bushy area. But it’s a game, so it’s entertaining. And, perhaps my favorite part, you can sort by easy, medium, or difficult in the sub and only see those posts/photos so if you have really low energy, do easy, or a bit more energy another day, do difficult.

It’s unintentionally the perfect game for my ME.

Edit: Oh, and on very low energy days, another tip is to go right to the comments, look for the answer, and then look at the photo. It’s still fun to “find” in the photo but no energy of looking all around.

I’m a total beginner. I’m doing my first thread painting. I feel like it’s going to take foreverrrr so I thought I could make it go faster and just use all 6 strands in the floss. I thought well how bad could it look, maybe not as good but certainly will be fine. WRONG. You all are SO CORRECT that it’s essential to seperate the floss into individual threads (or two or so) to use especially for thread painting. It’s not even comparable at all. I did a whole section with the entire floss intact and it looked horrendous. I ripped it all out. Did a new section with two strands. Took forever but looks way way way more professional. Went from looking like “toddler scribble art” to “okay it’s getting somewhere with a lot more practice”. Still horrible in comparison to the beauties I see here, but I at least am using the same medium now so I can learn how to get there. I was like, my god, it’s going to take my years and years to even make anything close to a thread painting. Now I’m like okay it will take me years and years to get good, but I’m at least doing something called thread painting😂