One of those days

[cjsmith]

I'm tired of being me. I want to be someone else for a while.

I could pretend. If I were sufficiently disconnected from reality, I could have a great time being someone else for a while. It doesn't have to be someone real. I could be anybody.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Migraine preventatives... Hmmmm... Nothing in excess, food/drink-wise. Other than that, I've yet to put my finger on specific triggers for me. I only get migraines once every few months, though. Sometimes I'll get one after a particularly stressful situation has been relieved.

Oh, and I forgot to list the fact that my skin will break out like I'm 15 at the drop of a hat, no matter what cleansing regimen I'm following.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Darn, excess is fun. And yeah, my skin does that too. It's permanently broken out. On the plus side, it doesn't seem to matter what I eat, so dig into that cheese and that chocolate!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm... cheese and chocolate. I'm impressed that even when my diet does go down the proverbial toilet, my blood sugar and cholesterol numbers have always been right down the middle. Decent metabolism at least, I guess. My caution against excess is merely theory, since I can't trace any specific triggers. I think when I've gone waaaaay overboard with sugar I've gotten one.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My blood sugar is pretty good SO FAR but diabetes *gallops* in my family so I am cautious. My cholesterol is astronomical, although it's mostly "good" cholesterol -- like yours, apparently unaffected by diet. I hope all this never changes 'cause I wouldn't know how to improve it!

Tracing specific triggers for a thing that happens only once every few months sounds like a monumental task. I'm not surprised you don't have a full spreadsheet with detailed info on that!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

My mom developed Type 2 Diabetes about 15 years ago, so I am concerned about that, but hopefully my cholesterol will be okay. My good cholesterol is actually a bit low, though.

As I was growing up, my dad went through the 1970s and early '80s with chronic, extremely frequent (often more than once a week) bed-confining migraines. He went through all sorts of specialists, chiropractic adjustments, biofeedback, drugs, tracking dietary triggers, etc. Nothing seemed to help for years. I've decided that since I'm not getting them that frequently, I'm not going to try to track triggers. If the frequency increases, certainly I'll track. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My grandmother had Type 2 starting in oh, her fifties or so. My mother is (so far) OK, but then diabetes sometimes skips a generation, too.

Wow, that sounds awful for your dad. It sounds like he stopped getting them, though. What happened?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

He still gets them, but not nearly as frequently. I think he's down to maybe one a month or a little less often. In the late 1980s, he ended up retiring early due to a disabling back injury (at my sister's farm in southern Indiana, he flipped a 4WD ATV onto himself breaking some lower vertebrae - no paralysis, just a lot of chronic pain for a long time from which he has mostly recovered). I seem to recall his migraine frequency dropping sometime soon after that. Maybe it was work. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Maybe it was work! Something in the environment, stress, something in the schedule... Wow. Well, I'm glad he's getting them far less often now.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Since he was a meter reader for the local gas utility, it wasn't a stressful job from my childhood perception for a long time. He'd go in at about 5:30am and be done with his route by 11:00am at the latest. But in the last few years they made a lot of major changes (finally providing portable computers rather than punch cards, increasing route sizes massively, adding lots more paperwork, changes in management, etc.) that I could tell were getting to him. So work stress might not have been the initial cause, but relieving what had built up I think helped.