Nausea. A pointy ache in a single aspect of the pinnacle. Light sensitivity that feels such as you’re being stabbed within the eye. When a migraine headache has you in its grip, the very last thing it’s possible you’ll wish to do is figure in your laptop computer.

I don’t undergo from migraines, however my spouse does, and has for years. Obviously, the very last thing you wish to do is stare at a display screen. But if you need to, these are the information that my spouse swears by to make life extra bearable.

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1.) Isolate exterior lights

Migraine victims can expertise extreme gentle sensitivity, which is likely one of the triggers that we’re making an attempt to scale back. But migraines may also be triggered by gentle on one aspect of the pinnacle. My spouse tries to scale back the ambient gentle, but in addition both orient it so it’s hitting the much less delicate aspect of her head or no less than strikes either side evenly.

However, she does like sufficient gentle to see her keyboard. Artificial lights, although, may also be a set off. Even although fluorescents and LED lighting can save tons of power, my spouse remains to be delicate to flickering lights when migraines strike. For that purpose, we nonetheless use most of the previous, inefficient incandescent gentle bulbs. They’re tougher to search out, however you possibly can nonetheless buy incandescent bulbs on Amazon and different websites.

2.) Turn the display screen brightness down

Part of the sunshine, after all, comes from the display screen. My spouse turns down the display screen brightness on her laptop computer (Windows Settings > System > Display) till the display screen’s brightness is snug, however the textual content and pictures are nonetheless legible.

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Mark Hachman / IDG

Mark Hachman / IDG

Obviously, this can range by particular person.

3.) Turn the laptop computer’s blue gentle off utilizing Windows’ Night Light

You may not remember you could manually scale back the quantity of blue gentle coming out of your laptop computer’s show by using the Night Light control inside Windows (System > Display > Night gentle).

Migraine victims will most likely wish to instantly flip it on. Note that there’s a “strength” slider to regulate the quantity of blue gentle that your laptop computer produces. Reducing the quantity of blue gentle will help ease or stop migraines, however decreasing the quantity of blue gentle your eyes see within the night may assist with sleep.

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IDG / Alex Huebner

IDG / Alex Huebner

Dialing the blue gentle down can typically give your laptop computer an oddly yellowish solid, however that’s a small value to pay for blessed reduction. Samsung additionally claims that its “4X AMOLED” shows discovered on the Galaxy Book3 and Book4 laptop computer collection naturally assist filter out blue gentle, too.

You may turn off the blue light on your phone, too. Don’t neglect about that!

4.) Enlarge the textual content

As you possibly can think about, migraine victims wish to scale back any pressure placed on their physique. My spouse enlarges the textual content on her show, although she wears glasses.

You can simply enhance the scale of the textual content in your show through the Windows Settings (Accessibility / Text measurement) and adjusting the slider to a cushty measurement.

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Mark Hachman / IDG

Mark Hachman / IDG

You may change the scale of the objects in your show — textual content, but in addition UI components, too. That management may be discovered within the Settings (System > Display).

Be cautious: persist with the drop-down choices and don’t go messing round with customized settings. Windows will modify the UI to 500% the conventional measurement, in case you ask it to — however then it is likely to be too messed as much as simply change again. You already could have a migraine, however you don’t want one other headache.

5.) Use green-lensed glasses just like the MigraLens

If there’s one factor that has modified my spouse’s life for the higher, it’s a pair of $60 MigraLens green glasses. As Harvard’s Medical School noted in 2016, publicity to a slender band of inexperienced gentle “significantly reduces photophobia and can reduce headache severity.” Since then, a lot of blue-light blocking glasses and green-light glasses have come to market; in line with my spouse, who has field-tested a lot of them, that is what works for her.

My spouse describes these glasses as a “blanket for her brain.”

I can’t declare that they’ll work as nicely for you, however she’s became one thing of a MigraLens evangelist. She swears by them and wears them practically on a regular basis. Bonus: they’ll match over a standard pair of glasses (or no less than hers).

6.) Turn off the sound

In addition to gentle sensitivity, migraine victims can expertise audio sensitivity, too. Turning down the amount (or turning pontificate solely) can definitely assist.

7.) Take breaks

Sometimes it may all be an excessive amount of, and that’s okay. If you possibly can, take a break. Lying down in a darkish, silent room will help your mind quiet down.

If you possibly can’t take a break, nonetheless, these different steps could make your migraine tolerable. Unfortunately, a migraine can’t at all times be banished. But these different steps will help you get by means of the day, even with a migraine. Let’s hope so!

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