Should Paid 'Menstrual Leave' Be a Thing?

[RainDog]

68. Have you tried med mj?

Mj is GREAT for migraines - no matter the reason - at least for me. I get migraines for no particular reason - or just b/c of stress, who knows. I've had them since I was in my 20s, but there's no predicting when - sometimes I won't have one for a year, then have them every other week. I ALWAYS vomit with them, so I can't keep down a medicine to stop them. One time I actually had to go to the emergency room of the hospital because I could not bear the pain...and I had two kids w/o meds.

When someone gave me mj - both the head pain and nausea stopped. Because I smoked it, the pain stopped in under a minute - but if this is something you know happens, you could use an edible at bedtime - you might even be able to limit use to then - but if you start to get severe pain, you can deal with it immediately by vaping or smoking.

Of course, everyone has different responses to things, so your experience might be different.

There is also something called an abdominal migraine, fwiw - so I wonder who many people have those and don't know it. Someone I know just told me about them b/c she had them for years and didn't know what they were. She was taking a med for something else, which made the ab migraines worse. The doc switched her med and ever since she's taking this new one... don't ask me to name it ... they stopped. One "off label" use for the new med, apparently.