Suffering: Who Keeps Me Going

I am late (as usual) with this month’s Blog Carnival post. I have been pondering the original title, What Keeps You Going and came up with many answers: ice, dark room, good drugs, knowing someone else understands, but all of these seemed to fall short. And then it hit me; there is no “what” that keeps [...]

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Migraine and Drug Dependence

 

This post is in response to Arabella’s post regarding the difference between medication overuse headache (MOH) and addiction. We are both responding to redOrbit’s article Migraine Meds Can Become Addictive  (BTW, the original AP article is better. Thanks, Parin). What followed was not on addiction, but on medication overuse headaches (MOH) or rebound headaches. These [...]

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Migraineurs at Lower Risk for Breast Cancer

Catchy title isn’t it. News releases, magazine articles, books, lectures and Sunday sermons all have one thing in common: catchy titles. They serve two purposes: one to get readers or listeners, the other to make the content believable. Sometimes, more believable than it really is.
Mathes, Malone, Davis, Lucas, Porter, and Li [1] released their findings in an article entitled, Migraine [...]

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Another Lure for a Migraine Cure

I just did a Google search for migraine +cure and in a split second I got 268,000 hits. It boggles my mind to think there are that many people hawking a cure for what is known to be a manageable, neurological, genetic disease with NO known cure. Now only that, but the articles contain outdated [...]

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November Blog Carnival: Art Inspired by Living With Migraine Disease

Bright Light invades brain piercing right eye
hammering pain; I’d rather die
Dark Room don’t move
Hours pass
I see pretty flowers under glass

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