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So, how do you know you have a migraine?

Well, the blinding debilitating pain is your first clue. Then there’s a sensitivity to light that makes you envy those living in Tromsø, Norway, where the sun doesn’t rise from November to January.

Finally, nausea.

If, like me, you have to lie in a dark room a few days a month with a cold cloth over your eyes, seriously considering self-decapitation, then you probably haven’t thought about the funny side to all of this.

Enter Reddit, where the memes abound.

Take it away, VICE:

Reddit threads written by real people—who commiserate and argue and tell grisly horror stories—are what I want when I’m craving a long, obsessive doomscroll about my own health.

That’s how I ended up on r/migraine, a subreddit created 11 years ago that now has more than 56,000 members. I was in the middle of a particularly bad series of days-long migraines during a long vacation weekend and I did not want to read “10 Natural Remedies for Migraines” or “Surprising Migraine Cures That Work” again. I just wanted to see some fellow migraineurs cathartically complaining about how this sucks.

Let’s get to it:

Image: Reddit

Image: Reddit

Image: Reddit

Image: Reddit

Image: Reddit

Image: Reddit

Image: Reddit

If that wasn’t enough of a ‘doomscroll’ for you, head on over to the Reddit page for more.

It’s good to have a sense of humour about these things.

[source:vice]