Beth Morton
@migrainechat.bsky.social
Education researcher turned migraine advocate
#MigraineChat moderator
VT maple syrup aficionado
🚫 Unsolicited advice
She/Her/Dr (PhD kind)
Header: Dinosaurcouch
MigraineChat Resources & Discord:
https://campsite.bio/migrainechat
MC feed/starter pack👇🏻
#MigraineChat moderator
VT maple syrup aficionado
🚫 Unsolicited advice
She/Her/Dr (PhD kind)
Header: Dinosaurcouch
MigraineChat Resources & Discord:
https://campsite.bio/migrainechat
MC feed/starter pack👇🏻
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Beth Morton
@migrainechat.bsky.social
· Feb 10
Updating my pinned 🧵 :
I'm not active on Twitter anymore, so I'm rebuilding the #migraine and #MigraineChat community here. A few ways to connect....
The original MigraineChat feed stopped working, so like and pin this one. It works the same.
I'm not active on Twitter anymore, so I'm rebuilding the #migraine and #MigraineChat community here. A few ways to connect....
The original MigraineChat feed stopped working, so like and pin this one. It works the same.
Goodbye 2025.
You were pretty awful.
You were pretty awful.
January 1, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Goodbye 2025.
You were pretty awful.
You were pretty awful.
Lol. This is a joke, right? 🤡
December 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Lol. This is a joke, right? 🤡
This will be me. 🎆
December 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This will be me. 🎆
Don't get sick between Christmas and New Year's. Your doctor will be out and so will the nurse covering them. Yay! 🥳🎆
December 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Don't get sick between Christmas and New Year's. Your doctor will be out and so will the nurse covering them. Yay! 🥳🎆
Took migraine meds after dinner and fell asleep. Dreamt of my kitty that passed last year. That was bittersweet. 💔
December 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Took migraine meds after dinner and fell asleep. Dreamt of my kitty that passed last year. That was bittersweet. 💔
Reposted by Beth Morton
The end of the year is always hard for me but dealing with yet another new symptom is making it even harder. Mental health is garbage.
December 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The end of the year is always hard for me but dealing with yet another new symptom is making it even harder. Mental health is garbage.
Can we sit Maye now?
December 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Can we sit Maye now?
On high pain days there’s nothing like the relief of making through dinner and knowing all you have left to do is survive until bedtime.
Except I haven’t made dinner yet. So about that….
Except I haven’t made dinner yet. So about that….
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
On high pain days there’s nothing like the relief of making through dinner and knowing all you have left to do is survive until bedtime.
Except I haven’t made dinner yet. So about that….
Except I haven’t made dinner yet. So about that….
Reposted by Beth Morton
I don’t have the spoons for pretty graphics or my usual spiel, but hey, #eBookReaders #RomanceReaders #QueerReaders & #MonsterRomance lovers — it’s stuff your eReader day on Romance Bookworms dot com!
Go forth & “buy now for free” those freebies!
www.romancebookworms.com
Go forth & “buy now for free” those freebies!
www.romancebookworms.com
Romance Bookworms
Free romance ebooks, sorted by the retailer of your choice! No strings attached, just one-click and start reading! Your friends, the romance novel fairies.
www.romancebookworms.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I don’t have the spoons for pretty graphics or my usual spiel, but hey, #eBookReaders #RomanceReaders #QueerReaders & #MonsterRomance lovers — it’s stuff your eReader day on Romance Bookworms dot com!
Go forth & “buy now for free” those freebies!
www.romancebookworms.com
Go forth & “buy now for free” those freebies!
www.romancebookworms.com
Possibly of relevance to people with migraine, given we have no real objective diagnostic tests.
(Thanks to Karrie for sharing.)
(Thanks to Karrie for sharing.)
Federal court says Social Security can't dismiss complaints of fibromyalgia sufferers - Maryland Matters
Their complaints are often brushed aside, but fibromyalgia sufferers see some hope in a court ruling that Social Security officials were wrong to discount an Anne Arundel County woman's description of...
marylandmatters.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Possibly of relevance to people with migraine, given we have no real objective diagnostic tests.
(Thanks to Karrie for sharing.)
(Thanks to Karrie for sharing.)
Watching the new Knives Out movie and in the scene where the monsignor targets parishioners until they walk out, one is a woman wearing a mask and I have to wonder why they did that.
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Watching the new Knives Out movie and in the scene where the monsignor targets parishioners until they walk out, one is a woman wearing a mask and I have to wonder why they did that.
I'm so bummed that a gift I bought my mom on Etsy, and paid a lot in shipping for, is not what I expected. Paying to send it back will not be worth it. 😔
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm so bummed that a gift I bought my mom on Etsy, and paid a lot in shipping for, is not what I expected. Paying to send it back will not be worth it. 😔
Sometimes you just need a friend to sit with you while you're (both) sad.
Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Sometimes you just need a friend to sit with you while you're (both) sad.
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Hey, so starting in nine days, if you were Disabled before age 46, you can have your own ABLE account (in the U.S.).
And I have this thread on how to go about choosing an ABLE account.
And I have this thread on how to go about choosing an ABLE account.
As a Disabled person who has my own ABLE account, I've been asked to say a little bit about it. And honestly, I've started a few times in the past but part of the problem is ABLE accounts vary so much from state to state and part of the problem is, as Dan writes, they're hard to understand.
1/?
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New in Can We Still Govern?
ABLE is program that allows people with disabilities and their families to minimize the constraints of asset limits and achieve financial independence. But very few people use it.
Why? And what can policymakers do about it?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/able-is-a-...
ABLE is program that allows people with disabilities and their families to minimize the constraints of asset limits and achieve financial independence. But very few people use it.
Why? And what can policymakers do about it?
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/able-is-a-...
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hey, so starting in nine days, if you were Disabled before age 46, you can have your own ABLE account (in the U.S.).
And I have this thread on how to go about choosing an ABLE account.
And I have this thread on how to go about choosing an ABLE account.
Searched for this and found it was almost exactly a year ago I asked you all this question.
Last night I stayed up way past my bedtime but felt like I had more (uncaffeinated) energy than usual today. This has happened a few times in the past couple of weeks and I’m not sure what to make of it.
Last night I stayed up way past my bedtime but felt like I had more (uncaffeinated) energy than usual today. This has happened a few times in the past couple of weeks and I’m not sure what to make of it.
For those with fatigue, do you ever find it's worse if you sleep more?
Context: last night I went to bed later then I have in weeks and it wasn't as bad a struggle to get out of bed this morning. (It's been a major struggle lately.)
There are other variables in play, but I was curious.
#NEISvoid
Context: last night I went to bed later then I have in weeks and it wasn't as bad a struggle to get out of bed this morning. (It's been a major struggle lately.)
There are other variables in play, but I was curious.
#NEISvoid
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Searched for this and found it was almost exactly a year ago I asked you all this question.
Last night I stayed up way past my bedtime but felt like I had more (uncaffeinated) energy than usual today. This has happened a few times in the past couple of weeks and I’m not sure what to make of it.
Last night I stayed up way past my bedtime but felt like I had more (uncaffeinated) energy than usual today. This has happened a few times in the past couple of weeks and I’m not sure what to make of it.
If you do Wordle and haven't done today's yet, don't read on.
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I can't believe my brain guessed cooch before conch. But I also can't believe Wordle accepted that as a guess.
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I can't believe my brain guessed cooch before conch. But I also can't believe Wordle accepted that as a guess.
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you do Wordle and haven't done today's yet, don't read on.
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I can't believe my brain guessed cooch before conch. But I also can't believe Wordle accepted that as a guess.
Shaping up to be a typical second half. Not that the first was much better. Too many injuries and bad penalties.
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Shaping up to be a typical second half. Not that the first was much better. Too many injuries and bad penalties.
You cannot trust anyone. Just saw a FB post (not a friend) where a mom says she was up all night with a sick 🤢 kid and between cleaning up after that kid, baked cookies for the other kid's classroom. Wtf.
People are rightly pleading with her not to send the cookies to school. (Or the kids.)
People are rightly pleading with her not to send the cookies to school. (Or the kids.)
December 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
You cannot trust anyone. Just saw a FB post (not a friend) where a mom says she was up all night with a sick 🤢 kid and between cleaning up after that kid, baked cookies for the other kid's classroom. Wtf.
People are rightly pleading with her not to send the cookies to school. (Or the kids.)
People are rightly pleading with her not to send the cookies to school. (Or the kids.)
Reposted by Beth Morton
Telehealth is vital for people with #LongCOVID. Don’t let it disappear
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
Telehealth is vital for people with Long COVID. Don’t let it disappear. - The Sick Times
Changes to telehealth policies are more than an inconvenience. For many of us, critical infrastructure is in jeopardy, and we urgently need government policy to protect it.
thesicktimes.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Telehealth is vital for people with #LongCOVID. Don’t let it disappear
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...
This article explains why telehealth (remote/virtual healthcare) is needed by patients with Long Covid,ME/CFS, & other chronic illnesses & lists some advocacy actions for Canada & the US
#MEcfs
Happy solstice! Here's to more daylight, all my fellow SAD people.
December 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Happy solstice! Here's to more daylight, all my fellow SAD people.
Revisiting this because I so desperately wanted to nap today but my anxious, half conscious brain was stuck on something and wouldn’t let me. This is endlessly frustrating.
Fun fact: anxiety has ruined my ability to nap.
I'm so tired.
I'm so tired.
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Revisiting this because I so desperately wanted to nap today but my anxious, half conscious brain was stuck on something and wouldn’t let me. This is endlessly frustrating.
Feeling so fatigued today it's not even that I don't have energy to make lunch, I don't feel like I have energy to even eat lunch. 🫠
December 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Feeling so fatigued today it's not even that I don't have energy to make lunch, I don't feel like I have energy to even eat lunch. 🫠
Fucking impeach RFK, Jr before he kills more kids.
Breaking news: The Trump administration plans to shift the federal government away from directly recommending most vaccines for children and suggest parents consult with doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Fucking impeach RFK, Jr before he kills more kids.
Good news for my North County neighbors. Hopefully they elect someone infinitely better.
NEW: Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik says that she is ending her campaign for New governor and will not run for re-election to her House seat next year.
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik drops out of New York governor's race
Stefanik also said she would not seek re-election to her House seat next year.
nbcnews.to
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Good news for my North County neighbors. Hopefully they elect someone infinitely better.