Migraine Mini: Deep Blue

Migraine has four stages: prodrome, aura, headache, and postdrome. Recent (in the past 15ish years?) research has discovered a lot of new information about prodrome. For instance: prodrome can last as long as several days prior to the onset of the headache. One of the prodrome symptoms my partner and I both experience is a precipitous drop in serotonin. We both get in a big funk. I call it my "square peg, round hole" day. I just feel frustrated and grumpy and annoyed and sad, for reasons that are otherwise indiscernible. Unfortunately, it's often not until I get hit with a headache a few days later that I can look back and recognize what was happening. Boo.

"Deep Blue" 4×6 inch mixed media on canvas.

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This series is as much about the issues of drug prices as it is about my life with migraine disease. My maintenance medication has a sticker price of $1200 per month. Why do they cost so much? I assume they are made of gold… so I crafted these little golden pills. So each of 30 completed works of art costs as much as one day of my migraine meds: $40

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