Anyone else suffer from migraines? How do you endure them?

I suffered from migraines for about 2 years ending about 6-7 months ago. They came & went. I remember the first time I got a migraine - I was playing Half-Life 2 & the visual disturbances (sometimes called an aura, look it up if you don't know what that is) started. They would occur monthly, sometimes twice monthly. Only once did I have two migraine "episodes" (as in the aura came & went, then came & went again) in one day.



I never found out precisely what my trigger was. Usually, migraines have a trigger - something you consume or are around that triggers an episode, similar to an alergy. However, about 6-7 months ago, they stopped. I haven't got an aura/migraine since then, except for very small, "warning" spots (I call the first small patches of a forming aura this) which are neither preceded or anteceded by the actual migraine. The migraines were very powerful for me, they usually knocked me out for 1-2 hours. If I was at work, I had to go home immediately - a lot of the time I'm pretty sure my boss didn't believe me. Unfortunately, and I don't know if it's coincidence or as a result of the visual disturbances, my eyesight has deteriorated a bit since then.



Do you suffer from migraines? What's your experience like? How do you endure one? Do you know of any ways to "treat" them or methods to endure them? I once spoke to a guy who claimed he had a migraine aura 24/7, but I'm not sure I believe him.



If you've never experienced the "aura" before, it's quite a thing... it's also impossible to explain what it looks like. Imagine all the colours of the visible spectrum, viewed through your eyes, except for a small patch that appears to be completely void of anything - it's not any colour you can identify, and it's absent of any visuals - but it's not white or black... it's just... nothing.

Anyone else suffer from migraines? How do you endure them?

Didn't work out like I thought

So I was selling some ammo cans online... Person came to buy them. I offered them a free machete with the ammo cans... "Oh I have like 3 machetes, I'm a prepper. no thanks".









Nope, tried to talk about prepping and it was awkward, told him about this site. Any suggestions on how to ease into prep talking? Or is it that a lot of preppers are just secretive and just deal with it?

Didn't work out like I thought

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What IF Fact Based Reasons For Racism/Sexism?

This thread is motivated by the public reaction to recent shootings. The reluctance to study (read science) race or sex based differences for fear of being called a racist or sexist is at odds with the politics of our time. (NOTE: I am equating recognizing race sex based differences with racism and sexism).



For instance, I recall reading several articles on DNA studies that showed scientists detect no DNA evidence for what is typically referred to as race. CONCLUSION: RACE DOES NOT EXIST. Yet, at the same time (this was 2010), I read the Obama administration had increased the number of races one can identify with on the census than ever before. CONCLUSION: RACE EXISTS (IN REALITY) AND IS PROLIFERATING.



Another example is how so many feminists claim the only non-physical difference between boys and girls is how they are raised; socialization of gender, I believe was the theory. CONCLUSION: GENDER IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT. Yet, at the same time there are so many headlines about woman are victimized because they are woman lacking power. CONCLUSION: GENDER EXISTS (IN REALITY) DETERMINING LIKELIHOOD OF VICTIMIZATION. (It should be noted that despite the headlines, men are more likely to be robbed or shot).



The above paragraphs include contradictory conclusions. Here are some facts not contradicted that I know of. Women live longer than men. Men die at higher rates at every age group. In fact, most who study the subject believe even most miscarriages involve a male fetus. Blacks, though a minority in the US population, dominate major sports teams and prison populations. There are certain diseases that effect almost exclusively Jewish people and Black people. http://ift.tt/1xlaZEG.



I only recently learned about how Tay-Sachs disease affects only the Jewish. And this fact got me thinking about fact based reasons to be racist and sexist. I put this in the controversial news thread and realize there are many other facts that could be presented - or generated. By that, I mean, the census seems to be a way to generate fact based differences among the races. I suppose the http://ift.tt/Sf163h is debatably in that category. But the life expectancy and propensity for certain diseases makes me conclude race based differences exist in reality and not merely political.



Now, I hope this thread does not deteriorate into hateful trolling. I wonder if the political opposition to racism and sexism extends to do a disservice to dealing with the fact based differences among the races, men and women. It discourages research on why men die younger than women. It causes DNA scientists to make the outrageous statement that race does not exist because they cannot find it in the DNA while simultaneously admitting the characteristic physical traits through generations. Thoughts?

What IF Fact Based Reasons For Racism/Sexism?

Hello to all from South Carolina

I am interested in archery, bushcraft, and wilderness living skills, and look forward to learning and sharing with a fine group of like minded people.

Hello to all from South Carolina

Merry Christmas Florida!

Merry Christmas Florida!

Fmr. CIA Dir. Jim Woolsey warns of existential EMP threat to America [Video]

Not sure if this made it up here or not already.

Quote:

Washington, D.C.: On July 29th, President Bill Clinton's former Director of Central Intelligence, R. James Woolsey, led a panel discussion on the growing -- and perhaps imminent -- threat of a natural or nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to the U.S. electric grid and other critical infrastructures that sustain modern civilization and the lives of millions of Americans. The event was sponsored by the newly established EMP Coalition, of which Mr. Woolsey is the Honorary Co-Chair along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Other participants were Ambassador Henry Cooper and Dr. Peter Vincent Pry. Ambassador Cooper led strategic arms control negotiations with the USSR under President Reagan and served as the Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization under President George H.W. Bush. His is currently the Chairman of High Frontier, an organization dedicated to protecting the United States from nuclear attack. Dr. Pry served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission, as a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee and as an analyst in the CIA. He is now the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board dedicated to national resiliency in the face of EMP and other threats.

Fmr. CIA Dir. Jim Woolsey warns of existential EMP threat to America [Video]