Dealing With Headaches

A blog post about my English Mongrel Pony made it to May’s Headache & Blog Carnival, and I’ve already gottena couple of compliments on how cute Pony is. Actually, the doggy in Walking Dog Helps Ease My Head Pain is NOT my dog. I didn’t have a scanner then. Now I do, and so here is a picture of Pony (and me) when we both lived in Bath, England. Let’s see if I can get the image to work on WordPress, shall we?

Exercise And Migraines

This month’s topic was handling exercise even when you suffer from chronic headaches or migraines. Although you won’t feel like moving, regular exercise can help lessen your pain intensity and duration. It also helps with just about every other physical aspect of your health. And, as usual, the blog carnival will also exercise your brain and your smiling muscles when you read it.

Some of the articles that really stuck out to me were:

• Calming Down the Migraine Brain by Megan Oltman, the poet who doesn’t know it from Free My Brain From Migraine Pain. This focuses on how to relax even when life sucks. Practical and doable stuff.
• Teri Robert at My Migraine Connection offers a post I wish I had written with a killer title, 10 Ways for Migraineurs to Sneak in Some Exercise. Because if we consiously make the decision to exercise, God knows we never will. Unless, of course, you live with Pony. Then you wont have much of a choice.
• The MAV Experience (aka Pat) also extolls the cirtues of dogs, the Great Outdoors and elephants re-enacting Riverdance with Keeping Active When Your Body Says No.
• And when the body can’t be budged, but your inner you can, here’s Kerrie’s Mindfulness & Meditation: An Introduction. (You have to scroll down a little bit to actually get to the post).

If I haven’t mentioned your post that made it onto the blog, it’s not because of your writing abilities, it’s because I suck.

As always, please don’t use any of these posts of blog carnivals in the place of a qualified doctor’s diagnosis and recommendations.

Next month’s topic is “How to Have a Fun, Healthy Vacation in Spite of Your Migraines” hosted at Somebody Heal Me. I think I’ll skip submitting anything for that one, but I’m looking forward to reading everyone else’s tips and tricks. Remember, you don’t have to have a blog specifically devoted to heads or head pains in order to submit. You don’t get money, but you do get a lot of traffic and you have a chance of getting mentioned on this blog.

(Ooo. Ahh.)