Like a lotta gals, my bouts of migraine seem to be hitched to my monthly cycle. Although, with me, perversely, they’re only loosely hitched: my migraine cycle drifts. My worst days, right now, hit about a week later than they did a couple of years ago.

(It would help if I kept written notes, but I don’t. Maybe I’ll start. But c’mon, what I am, my migraines’ secretary? Sheesh.)

Even so, I can predict, with a fair degree of certainty, that I’m within 72 hours of migraine day right now. (It helps that we’ve just come off a 28-day February.)

Which makes me an official Walkin’, Talkin’ Experiment. There have been a couple of studies, small ones, that suggest CoQ 10 can help reduce the frequency of migraine. Here’s a write-up of the second study, which was a double-blind.

I started taking it a month ago. On Tuesday I felt a touch of gut malaise/nausea, touch of pain around my right eye socket from time to time. But both were so faint I probably wouldn’t have noticed, if I weren’t on High Alert . . .

I haven’t uncrossed my fingers quite yet. But I may have dodged the thing this month.