Treasurer said:
Amen Night2Day! Since I have been going to doctors, which has been a long time for my migraines, they have changed their opinions, thank God (I can say that because I mean it). Finally it no longer is considered in our head. It is not just stress. It is not just because we are women and we are moody. Or any other number of stupid excuses.
I hadda rush mom to the tv as soon as that was broadcast way back when. (Perhaps 5 years ago. Unsure.) FINALLY. They began to fess up to what alot of migrainers knew all along. Inflmation, swelling, and pain signals bounsing off the wall.
In many, many cases until recent years women's medical in general weren't taken seriously. Not only do I know this from personal experiance...but also from my mother's and her mother's own experiance. While I have a condition that's being more accepted in the medical field as "viable"...another one, the main domino which plunked after Mononucleosis over 15 yrs. ago, ME/CFIDS/PVS (Post-Viral Syndrome) is still poorly misunderstood. (Unfortunately, in my case, it's the one getting worse.) My mom's been treared worse. And...well, what the medical field did to my grandmother from her early teens on until her death last year was completely horrendous. Quite a few horror stories.
I admire my grandfather though. He was always there, always caring for her in any way he could up until he wasn't able to any longer.
The medical arts has been slow in realizing that men are differnt than women. *gasp* Or that our systems react differntly to the same illness due to their make-up. One example would be a heart attack. You may have heard the sterotypical signs for men: can't breath, pain in chest...that sort of thing. A woman doesn't normallty get that though. Her symptoms would be tiredness and aches down one arm. But not chest pain. Also, a heart attack is more deadly for a woman not only because in the past emergency rooms would often state it's "anxiety", but she doesn't even need as many risk factors as a man does. Men's veins are larger and can carry more blood and oxygen. With a women, especially as she ages, the veins are thinner and more fragile.
But still I have to deal with the scars and chips on my shoulders and heart. The medical community has been hard on us. But at least for the next generation it has gotten better. At least now there is medications out there made specifically for migraines. When I first started out I was a guinee pig. At the hospital they called me a drug addict and a frequent flyer. At least they are getting further than they have in what--- well checking history the founding fathers, I think one of them had migraines, so its been a long time coming.
To be honest, at least the Depakote cuts in half the longevity and severeity of the migraines...usually. At least, if I'm unable to take Maxalt for them. Though I still feel aweful. Nice to be properly diagnosed with the Migraines being seen as an organically based diagnoses. Got sick and tired of hearing from my then GP "It's only sinus...sorry...can't do anything." One woulda thought he woulda picked up on the growing and additional symptoms. But anyway...
Do you realize we have only really had one cure that I know of and that was for sickle cell anemia. And that was by a guy who is still living. (I think he won the nobel peace prize, he lives here on the island where I live and is a dentist now). Why do we not have cures? All this research, I see it on television all the time, money being raised for them, do we have any progress? Or just all these cute little zoloft pills running around instead.
Guess that is just another heated discussion, lol.
I would say it has more with the little dollar signs that race along with the cute little Zoloft pills.
I honestly cant believe they would want us to sever our nerves. Isnt that by our spinal cord? We are talking about the one by our cerebral cortex right? There is absolutely no way, I like walking. The side effects of pills are bad enough.
Er....no. Rememeber, we have nerves travling throughout our body. The surgery would be concerned with some of the nerves that are often affected by migraines. That would be within the sinus areas since they share some of the same location. (It's why also some Migrainers, self-diagnosed or no can be confused with having Sinunitus...the pain travels through the same area.)
*Side note: Most people who have never had a migraine will never be able to understand them. They may be able to feel sorry for you, but they will never be able to understand the extent of the pain...
People with Chronic Illnesses can also fall into the same trap...almost fighting over who's worse off. Which is unfair since it's immpossible to know how much pain the person is dealing with, how much they can personally tolerate, ect.
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Oh, yes...the neuro's office actually
did call back this morning:
"Discontinue the Topomax and if you're still having problems within a week...schedule an appointment with the doctor."
Uh-huh. Someone there is behind on their note taking skills
*grumble*
. (We'll have to see how this drug prescription program works -for me in January- keeping finger and toes crossed). As of right now neither medicare or medicaid cover my meds. I have to get samples. So its an up and down thing.
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(Numbers 6:24-26)
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