Let’s be honest—if you’re anything like me, staring at screens for hours every day is pretty much unavoidable. Between work Zooms, doomscrolling at night, and the occasional binge-watch marathon, my eyeballs don’t really get a break. But after years of dealing with screen-induced migraines (those delightful pounding headaches paired with eye strain and nausea), I…
It’s 2 a.m. and there it is again—that throbbing, pulsing ache like someone’s pounding a drum inside your skull. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to count. After years of dealing with migraines and testing out everything from cold compresses to cutting caffeine, I finally started leaning into more natural ways to break…
It started with a dull ache, right behind my right eye — just a whisper of discomfort. Within an hour, I was squinting at the light, struggling to concentrate, and wondering why this particular pain felt different. If you’ve ever dealt with migraine pain behind one eye, you’ll know exactly what I mean. It’s not…
After spending back-to-back hours on my laptop for work and then winding down with some mindless scrolling on my phone, I found myself nursing a familiar, throbbing ache right above my left eyebrow. At first, I dismissed it. Maybe dehydration? Skipped lunch? But it kept happening—more often than I’d like to admit. It wasn’t until…
Last year, after my second vaccine dose, I remember waking up the next morning with a pounding sensation behind my eyes. At first, I brushed it off as dehydration or lack of sleep. But as the hours passed and the throbbing only intensified—accompanied by nausea and a weird sensitivity to light—I realized it wasn’t just…
Last week, I found myself clutching my temples in a dimly lit room, cursing the extra-large cold brew I downed earlier that morning. Was it the caffeine that triggered the throbbing behind my eye—or was it just another bad migraine day? It got me thinking: how does caffeine really affect migraines? If you’ve ever pondered…
