It's easy to be dismissive and judgemental of others on the internet isn't it? Or in real life. Quite a different story when it's you suffering.
I'm just glad I'm more tolerant and able to be compassionate of others whether I suffer or not.
People here are describing serious physical conditions and I have to wonder why others feel the need to pop in and mock others or seek to diminish what they say. It certainly doesn't help in any way!
@Luke I dont believe you meant harm but many of the users here mentioned they have had their medical issues seen to by a doctor but there's not a great deal they can do.
All that anyone here was asking for was consideration and options. I don't see any harm in that at all, and I will always stand up for others I see being given a hard to over something they can't control.
"luthienrising;13286046" wrote:
1) Regardless of whether migraine is classified in a particular jurisdiction as a disability, the condition is extremely common and is temporarily highly disabling.
2) Sometimes companies do the right thing just because it's the right thing.
Re medical checkups: Diagnosis is one thing; medicine's ability to solve the problem after diagnosis is another. Migraine is rarely preventable by medication, often not even remediable or only partially remediable after it begins. The science of migraine is underdeveloped.
Re brightness: it's not monitor brightness that's the problem; it's what's happening on the monitor. Reducing brightness does not resolve that.
Dehydration is not a universal migraine cause. Perfectly well hydrated people can get migraine. It's also only one of many causes of dry eyes. Dry eye is also not a universal migraine cause, nor will hydrated eyes prevent migraines from visual stimuli. If that were the case, many of us with lifelong migraine who see our physicians and optometrists regularly would be just fine with some eye drops. We're not. FWIW, I use preventive eye-hydration treatment regularly, because I do have completely nonhydration-related dry eye. I can assure you that I've had migraine triggered from the game (and, occasionally, from this forum, since that redesign in the fall) when my eyes were very well hydrated indeed.
Finally, migraine is not a kind of eye pain. Pain located near the eyes is one of many symptoms that might or might not be part of a migraine. Eye strain is one of many triggers that might bring on or increase migraine in some, not all, migraine sufferers.
Go yell about something you understand.
Well said @luthienrising, I'm so sorry you had to leave after the forums triggered another one :(
Some people seem completely ignorant to the fact that while modern medicine is amazing in a lot of ways-there are still any number of conditions that medical science has yet to properly identify, understand or treat effectively. Many conditions people can develop at any time with no prior warning and may have to live as well as they can with it for the rest of their lives. I have no idea why people would think someone would *want* to be affected by illness of any type and why they can't offer compassion instead of derision for being affected in such a way.
