#chronic tension headaches

[drachen-auge]

General headache and migraine flag

[alt: A rectangular flag made of seven equally sized horizontal stripes. Top down the colours are: muted dark teal-ish green, muted green-ish grey, dark red, muted red, muted light red, purple, dark purple.]

Since I couldn't find a general headache and migraine flag I gave it a go myself. It's based on quite a few other flags

episodic migraine flag by @ thepokedexisgay

chronic migraine flags by @ enby-larry

chronic tension headache flag by @ themogaidragon

chronic daily headache flag by @ themogaidragon

chronic headaches/migraines flag by @ fantasy-store

As for the colour meanings, here goes muted dark teal-ish green - migraine and headaches muted green-ish grey - brain fog and sense sensitivity dark red, red, light red - spectrum of head pain (frequent, chronic,...) purple - migraine auras and other effects of headaches and migraines dark purple - chronic pain and fatigue

This flag can be used by anyone with headaches and/or migraines whether they're chronic or not.

[themogaidragon]

Chronic Daily Headches Pride Flag

Chronic daily headache (CDH): experiencing fifteen or more days with a headache per month. Chronic daily headaches is an umbrella term which consist of different sub-groups, primarily categorized as chronic tension-type headaches and chronic migraine headaches.

The flag is inspired by this chronic migraine flag, this chronic tension type headaches flag and this chronic pain flag.

Flag meanings:

Dark teal: migraine and headaches

Muted teal: all the types of CDH (cluster, hemicrania continua, idiopathic intracranial hypotension, migraine, tension-type, mixture of types, etc)

Greyish teal: other chronic pains and disabilities

Red/Maroon: chronic head pain

Muted purple: sleep problems and fatigue

Lavender: varying levels and types of pain

Purple: chronic pain

[Image ID: A flag with seven horizontal lines of the same size. Their colors are, from top to bottom, dark teal, muted teal, greyish teal, red, muted purple, lavender and dark purple. END ID]

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Some chronic pain memes for extra hurty times

[k9emote]

SOME ORGAN PAIN EMOTES

headache

migraine

tension headache

sinus headache

cluster headache

plus size uterus / stomach ache

uterus / stomach ache

general tummy ache

[genderqueerdykes]

i just had the worst fucking cluster headache of my life, i could not function OR rest for about 3 hours, i was just sitting in various spots of my apartment like this >_< while trying to find the darkest spot i could, alternating between trying to sleep and trying to just sit there.

trying to sleep made it worse, somehow? i eventually was able to in the end but for several hours trying to sleep made the pain throb and stab. i took some seroquel and that was able to help me sleep but i could not open my eyes for the life of me, nor could i keep them shut for too long. my right eye / back of my head just hurt like hell for no reason for 3 hours and at several points i just kinda whined and cried a little because there was not really much i could do drinking water didnt help. i ate food, that didnt help

that sucks ass. if you deal with these too, im sorry. people trivialize headaches all the time, but this one resisted an extra gabapentin, which helps with migraines and headaches, and i was still unable to do anything but deal with what was happening. there are a lot of different types and manifestations of headaches. if someone tells you they're experiencing a bad headache, please let them do what they need in order to get through whatever they're experiencing

[mote-of-ash]

think the only thing ive felt comparable to a real ass carnal desire is the last few weeks ive been really wishing like, someone would give my head a good scrub.

it has to me the same type of euphoric joy you see on a dog when you just give them a real strong body rubdown and they just melt.

[thebeingmerf]

Why suffer with your issues when there’s fictional characters to project onto? 🙃

[lemon-russ]

Not warhammer-

The magic compression socks stopped my fucking migraine onset?? I had fuckin, visual aura and put on socks and the pain just faded in a minute. Are you kidding me, this can't all be the same thing thats all helped by socks. Im going to throw myself out a window.

[soupjug]

when i say i have daily headaches i don’t mean that i get a headache once a day, i mean that from the moment i wake up to the moment i fall asleep, i have a headache. i varies in intensity but it never goes away. and i feel like there’s a big difference that the people around aren’t understanding

[try-and-try-and-try-again]

30.11.24

Awful night and day. I got prescribed Nefopam for the tension headaches and neck spasms that have been getting worse and worse over the past couple of months. I took my first dose last night and the side effects were awful. I had everything listed on the NHS website apart from hallucinations and pink urine (which is so bizarre!). 111 were called at around midnight and I don’t even know if I slept at all.

111 made me go to the hospital in the morning where I was predictably told not to take any more Nefopam…and to see yet another GP on Monday to be prescribed something else - joy! I’ve now seen 4 doctors in 2 days. I’m not sure I want to ask for more painkillers. I haven’t tried a single pain killer besides paracetamol that hasn’t given me horrendous side effects. And none of them have ever touched my pain. I’d rather have just pain than pain + side effects.

I’ve spent all day feeling woozy and shaky. I spent lots of it in bed. I was planning to get the painting I need to finish done today but I ended up getting the paints out and then sitting in front of my painting, staring into space for ages and having horrible hospital memories take over my head because my brain refused to shut up after being in the hospital this morning.

I spent a while trying to look up why I was doing this - was it a dissociative flashback? I’ve had quite a few instances like this over the past few years and I never literally feel like I’m in these memories, like the usual flashback descriptions I read, more like I’m observing them from a distance which is what the dissociative flashback page I read described.

I don’t know if there’s much point in me always dwelling on and researching what my brain does (is it self-centred to do this?). I am always desperate for solid scientific explanations for everything I come across including my mind - but I know the mind cannot actually be condensed so simply.

[anartificialsatellite]

Sometimes when I have a headache it feels like my brain is stuck to the sides of my skull and if I could just crack my skull open and loosen it up in there and give it a good cleaning so it’s not sticky anymore I could go about my life again.

[iamchickenhearmesquawk]

Oops it’s brain fog 🫠

[themogaidragon]

Chronic Tension Headaches Pride Flag

Chronic Tension Type Headaches (CTTH): a chronic pain characterized by headaches that are bilateral, non-pulsatile, and lack associated symptoms and occurs for a long period of time. The pain might be very frequent, constant or daily.

The flag is inspired by this chronic migraine flag and this chronic pain flag.

Flag meanings:

Dark orange: daily, very frequent and constant headaches

Muted orange: duration of headaches

Gray: migraine crisis and other chronic pains

Red/Maroon: chronic head pain

Muted purple: sleep problems and fatigue

Lavender: varying levels and types of pain

Purple: chronic pain

[Image ID: A flag with seven horizontal lines of the same size. Their colors are, from top to bottom, dark orange, muted orange, grey, red, muted purple, lavender and dark purple. END ID]

[jorvikzelda]

adding this to the list of Severely fucking stupid absrad deaths

BUT!! (under cut so as to not Clog)

we fucking got there in the end baby

(did a couple tries for radiant, then was Swept Away by the Migraine. We’ll get there.)

[minici]

Just had my first migraine-free, dizziness free hours since I was 15

[anotherobsessedsomething]

When the pain gets so bad that you get sensory overload so you need to shut everything off because every sound feels painful but now you can’t distract yourself from your pain anymore by watching stupid shit