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I feel bad for those who have this condition .
It also appears that should we live long enough, there will come a time when there will be few things left that are NOT the cause of a malady.

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On the one hand, yes, this migraine-suffering person has the right to work, but not necessarily in that school/industry/metier. So I sympathize only slightly.

However, the reptilian side of my brain wonders what sort of malady I can cook up and what kind of behaviors I can force other people into performing. For some reason I recall a rack of pamphlets that was at a previous place of employment, and our jokes about the maladies we as young men were suffering.

I had a professor at university whose lessons I couldn't attend because she often wore a neon-like multi colored shirt. I had to sit and look upwards or downwards or into a wall or something. If I didn't I got a terrible headache.

It was very strange. I had never experienced anything like it before - or since for that matter.

Some of those kids' clothes would give anyone a headache! The designers must have been color blind.

Narrow vertical striped shirts, wallpapers, and certain vertical blinds are very uncomfortable for me to look at. I have to look away. They make my eyes feel 'funny'. No migranes, though, thankfully.

I have to say, though, a person who can't deal with colored stripes would have a tough time working with children. Many, many children's clothes come in stripes - especially boys stuff.

I am a migraine suffer, had it since age 7/8 and bright shiney lights can set one off ( not so much now i am older I have to say which is weird) but I have never had bright clothing and stripes do this to me and I am in my 50's , so I have had migraine for a long time. What will give one person a migraine may not another - so, what else do they ban? I find thunderstorms coming with the weather pressure gives them to me now I am older - can God stop them please?

QUOTE (Isabella @ Feb 15 2008, 01:45 PM)

Narrow vertical striped shirts, wallpapers, and certain vertical blinds are very uncomfortable for me to look at. I have to look away. They make my eyes feel 'funny'. No migranes, though, thankfully.

I have to say, though, a person who can't deal with colored stripes would have a tough time working with children. Many, many children's clothes come in stripes - especially boys stuff.

I also suffer from migraines. Thank God they have become less and less frequent with age.

Skinny stripes bother me too. At some point, they seem to run together and I can't stand to look at them.

Blinking strobe lights like they used to have at the discos and at some places even now, can also cause one to come on.

Migraines are extremely debilitating for me. I get spots before my eyes and that lasts a few minutes, but never long enough for me to take anything. Once the spots appear, if I take anything after that, I will throw up.

I just get in a cool dark room, keep rotating a pillow over my head to keep it cool. Poor DBF, he does what he can, bless his heart, bringing me cool washcloths and all, trying really hard to make them less severe.

Its best for me to just be left alont. They usually last a few hours, and after that I am so weak I don't want to go anywhere or eat anything.

I just thank God I don't have them as often as I used to. But when I DO get them, they are more severe than they were. The last one had me feeling I was going to literally die! Its scary!

The Devil's Cloth, by Michel Pastoureau is a history of stripes. An early view of the pattern was that it was dangerous (although not for today's reasons.) It was associated with outcasts of various, er, stripes.

Another migraineur who fortunately responds well to sumatriptan shots. My life is really different than it was before this drug.

I also get migraines sometimes from narrow stripes stretching out ahead of me - never from stripes on people's clothes, though. When I was an undergraduate, my school put carpeting in one of the libraries that had stripes in gray and maroon which ran parallel to the book cases. That place was a nightmare for me, I got so dizzy and ill.

Blinking lights are terrible, and I do truly think there ought to be a way to turn of flashing or scrolling messages on computer screens.

Brains are such strange things.

I have seen my sister vomit and lose her balance at the sight of a psychadelic billboard. I have this to a degree also. Mostly dizzy and somewhat similar to your experience pattes (except that ours is inner ear related). Flashing lights can send me into a seizure.

So to get back to the article posted, to what degree should others accommodate people who are prone to migraines? Those of you who suffer from them, what do you think? If, like the teacher in the story, seeing stripes set you off, would you think all children at the school where you worked should no longer wear them?

I would think, if the parents liked the teacher, they'd accommodate her.

First, wow. I never knew these things happened to y'all. I remember a bout of vertigo while bowling, but I thought that was the beer I'd been drinking.

Second, if the parents see the teacher as worth keeping, I think accomodation is in order. But to have a ban forced upon them is a bit harsh.

I say ban the migraine-sufferers. There's less of them than of stripey clothes, so wouldn't that be easier?

(KIDDING!!! I get migraines myself, but not triggered by stripes or anything else I can identify)