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[jeshyr]

I do wonder what weird quirk of biology means that any time I have a mast cell attack or a migraine at night, invariably I am olso inflicted with insomnia that night.

Also, it is very annoying that migraines come with free restless legs and myoclonic jerking.

Have had codeine, paracetemol (tylenol), and phenergan. Still flushed, in pain, jerky, and insomniac.

GRRR.

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[jesse_the_k]

I am sorry you get to have ALL the things at once.

I wonder if there's a piezo-electric or nano-tech skin which could capture all the twitches and feed 'em back into your computer?

BTW, have you updated to iOS7? If not, you may wish to delay. Many folks with vestibular/vertigo/migraine/seizure issues are finding the zooming, psuedo-3D UI to be literally sickening. More details and many links at this TidBITS article.

[jeshyr]

I did upgrade actually and I haven't had a lot of problems - I did turn the "reduce motion" setting on, but more for conservation of battery life than anything else. I suspect if the animations were frequent they'd bother me more but they're pretty much only when you use the main screen, which I never do for very long - just to get from one app to another.

I do totally think that Apple should make th "reduce motion" switch work better, now it's obvious that some people *are* affected, it just doesn't bother me.

[acelightning]

there seems to be a relationship between some forms of migraine and some forms of seizures - they are both "electrical storms" in the brain, nerve cells firing in the wrong rhythm or too strongly or at random (or any combination). so it's not totally surprising that you have myoclonic spasms at the same time you have a migraine. do you suppose a "brain pacemaker" might help you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_pacemaker

getting struck by lightning might work, but it's far less controllable :-)

(i actually did narrowly miss getting struck by lightning when i was a teenager. yes, it's part of how i got my name...)