Migraines Made Easy to Understand

I started investing in the stock market in June 2024. It has been 4 months now. I didn’t do well, but it helped me come up with an analogy to help explain migraines to a non-migraineur. During the first month, I made a good effort and spent some time on analysing and investing in stocks. My migraines kept getting worse each day, such that I had to lessen my involvement to a bare minimum.

Understanding my migraine symptoms

Imagine you have a stock market portfolio where you invested your money in two dozen companies. The value of the stocks varies each day and also the entire time the market session is open during the day. The same goes for my body. I have 2 dozen symptoms: body ache; stiffness; numbness; heaviness; tingling sensation; throbbing pain; light sensitivity; sound sensitivity; sensitivity to smell; sensitivity to taste; sensitivity to touch; sensitivity to weather (weather changes affect me like crazy); cold sensitivity; dry eyes; dry mouth; frequent urination (difficulty in passing urine); chronic backache; restlessness; tremors; dizziness/vertigo (increases with sudden head movement); fatigue; brain fog; irritability; disorientation; inflammation (mostly during winter, a little during monsoon and in an air-conditioned environment); toothache and jaw ache (Trigeminal Neuralgia); shortness of breath if I focus on a task; jerky movements; stomach cramps; hangover feeling; and drowsiness.

Comparing the stock market to my migraine symptoms

The symptoms vary each day. They go up and down in terms of intensity. Sometimes, the frequency also varies as the symptoms come and go. But most of the symptoms are always there in some form. The symptoms vary all the time, even during a single day. The symptoms of my migraines are volatile, just like the prices of stocks. I have some control over them in the sense that I can prevent some triggers from affecting my symptoms by staying cooped up in my migraine cave. Shivambu therapy and a meditative state of mind have helped me the most in keeping my symptoms as low as possible. This means that if I do anything, I will get a flare-up in my symptoms. I can’t do anything properly. If the symptoms are at a high level, then my performance becomes horrible. This kind of impairment has made sure I can’t do anything in life.

I believe this stock market analogy is an easy way to understand migraines for non-migraineurs. Please let me know if this helps in explaining migraines to newbies.