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    #16
    Re: Migraines

    Originally posted by DavidMcCann View Post
    I developed migraine and got a complete cure from a homeopath. He fixed my hayfever, too!
    Yes, under certain circumstances placebos can be quite effective.

    That's why I go to a very good doctor who inspires me with trust - I heal faster, for sure.
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      #17
      Re: Migraines

      Homeopathic remedies are not placebos. If they were, then conventional doctors would be curing migraines with placebos instead of just offering symptom relief.

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        #18
        Re: Migraines

        Originally posted by DavidMcCann View Post
        Homeopathic remedies are not placebos. If they were, then conventional doctors would be curing migraines with placebos instead of just offering symptom relief.
        There have been a number of studies to try to explain homeopathic remedies, and while quite a few have been explained medically, there are still a large number that have not. Clinical studies, papers, tests, and so on have all been done and are easy to find explaining that there are many instances where the placebo effect is closely linked to homeopathy. You mentioned headaches and migraines. Homeopathic remedies include the use of belladonna for that, stating that even though in a "healthy" individual, it would cause a migraine, but in someone already suffering it may ease it. That makes sense, but in the same exact way that having a cup of coffee to cure a headache makes sense (and is so much cheaper). If you dilate the blood vessels that are causing pain due to them being too constricted, of course it will ease the pain. But if you further dilate the already relaxed vessels, it will cause pain. Caffeine does the same exact thing.

        Now, while some of those similar type cures work because science and medical knowledge have proven them to do so, I can't see how drinking powdered platinum will do much other than taste nasty.

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          #19
          Re: Migraines

          Originally posted by Munin-Hugin View Post
          There have been a number of studies to try to explain homeopathic remedies, and while quite a few have been explained medically, there are still a large number that have not. Clinical studies, papers, tests, and so on have all been done and are easy to find explaining that there are many instances where the placebo effect is closely linked to homeopathy. You mentioned headaches and migraines. Homeopathic remedies include the use of belladonna for that, stating that even though in a "healthy" individual, it would cause a migraine, but in someone already suffering it may ease it. That makes sense, but in the same exact way that having a cup of coffee to cure a headache makes sense (and is so much cheaper). If you dilate the blood vessels that are causing pain due to them being too constricted, of course it will ease the pain. But if you further dilate the already relaxed vessels, it will cause pain. Caffeine does the same exact thing.

          Now, while some of those similar type cures work because science and medical knowledge have proven them to do so, I can't see how drinking powdered platinum will do much other than taste nasty.

          Actually, a lot of what gets labeled as "homeopathy" isn't homeopathy. Homeopathy works like this.... If I want to cure stinky feet, I can get some dog poop (because like cures like) and put in a gallon of water and shake it (because shaking it causes the water to retain the memory of dog poop stink) and then I take some of the poo water and put it in a new gallon of water and shake it, and continue this dilution for x number of times. At the end, I tell you to drink water that (from the shaking) has the magical property of poo water, which will (because like cures like) fix your stinky feet problem.

          In homeopathy there's no active ingredient....we're talking amounts like one part per billion or less. It truly is a placebo--its magic water (or, in the case of tablets, magic sugar pills). This is something very different from herbalism and (some) naturopathy. There's quite a bit of CAM that is crap. But there is also quite a bit that is based on sound principles and actually works in a clinical setting---many of our medications are built on the identification of the active ingredient of traditionally used plants.

          (Meanwhile, the feet are stinky because the person in question wears boots for work for 12 hours a day. The answer is a combination of fresh breathable socks, foot maintenance, and replacing your boots on a good schedule. Combine that with some baking soda and this awesome foot mask made by Lush.)
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            #20
            Re: Migraines

            LOL - while, meanwhile, PetCo sells homeopathic remedies to relieve depression in dogs that is 15% alcohol.

            A glass of wine (12-13% alcohol) tends to relieve some of my depression as well...
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              #21
              Re: Migraines

              I know it's an old thread, but I've found one thing that will prevent my migraines. They are triggered by weather patterns, though sinus headaches have been ruled out. Anyway, I take a prescription nasal spray called Dymista a day or two before the weather moves in and it usually prevents the headache. It will sometimes stop them if I'm just starting to feel the pressure of onset, but usually once the headache is rolling I just have to ride it out.

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                #22
                Re: Migraines

                I have really bad migraines at times and I have sinus infections as well. So I know the difference between each other. I have a neurologist for my seizures and he gives me torodol (in shot form, though you can get it in pills) for my migraines. It works really well. Because I have migraines and headaches, I keep my room dark all the time and when I go out I wear sunglasses all the time unless it is rainy.
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                  #23
                  Re: Migraines

                  I had migraines from the time I was twelve until a few years ago. My wife and I were coming home from a night out and I had to pull over to let her drive. When I got home I headed for my Imitrex and before I took it I was reminded that I was a Reiki master and I had no need of migraines. I invited Reiki energy to get rid of the migraine andwithin seconds it was gone. I haven't had one since. I don't know why I had never thought to use Reiki before, perhaps I was not ready to accept it. When I think of the times that I came close to suicide because of the pain and suffering of migraines I can only thank the love of and for my family for being alive now.
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                    #24
                    Re: Migraines

                    Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                    Yes, under certain circumstances placebos can be quite effective.
                    Originally posted by DavidMcCann View Post
                    Homeopathic remedies are not placebos. If they were, then conventional doctors would be curing migraines with placebos instead of just offering symptom relief.
                    It may not even matter...


                    My husband read about a study that indicated that just knowing that the placebo effect can heal, does heal.

                    Study suggests patients benefit from the placebo effect even when told explicitly that they're taking an 'inert substance'


                    ...these findings suggest that rather than mere positive thinking, there may be significant benefit to the very performance of medical ritual.

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                      #25
                      Re: Migraines

                      My sinuses also go crazy when the weather changes, which doesn't help.

                      When I get migraines, sometimes applying heat to my head (forehead is where I get the pain) can help ease it a it.
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                        #26
                        Re: Migraines

                        Originally posted by habbalah View Post
                        My sinuses also go crazy when the weather changes, which doesn't help.

                        When I get migraines, sometimes applying heat to my head (forehead is where I get the pain) can help ease it a it.
                        I truly sympathize - I used to get migraines from really bad sinus headaches due to - well let me say that I havent had the problem since the doc took a drill to my sinuses and widened them massively. My allergies have calmed down too. Basically my sinuses were so narrow it was killing me slowly.

                        See an ENT specialist if you can and are having bad sinus problems. they really can help

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                          #27
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                          I have had migraines since ... well, I remember describing a headache to a family member when I was 6 and she identified it as a migraine ... and I remember thinking then that I had always had it ... which from the perspective of a six-year-old with terrible memory probably means since I was four or five ...

                          Point being, a lot of migraines, all over my brain, and some of them were triggered, as proven by the fact that I got rid of some of them. For instance, getting away from the heat, humidity and air pressure of the coast did wonders, as did my anxiety meds and later my seizure meds. The rest are just what I call one of the family curses, migraines with no discernible cause. Most of high school I was living through willpower and painkillers, switching between ibuprofen and paracetamol so I didn't build up too much of a tolerance to either. Lucky, lucky men in my family get triggered migraines, though. One of my brothers just has to avoid chocolate ... I don't know whether to call him lucky or unlucky for that.

                          But yeah. Only way to avoid those untriggered migraines, for me, is to notice the pressure of a migraine building, and blitz it with codeine. If I catch it early enough, a half dose works. If I don't ... darkness, water, and an alarm to remind me when to take the next half dose, or full dose if I decided to wait rather than noting how long between half doses.

                          Of course, then there's the fact that I can't always do that, because I don't want to get addicted to painkillers and my migraines are frequent enough that I could very easily, so then I just hide from the light, try to sleep through it, and grumble about pain vs boredom when I can't, since I find boredom painful, and then having nothing to focus on but the pain is worse, so I have to put up with the then lesser pain of doing something that I need to see ...


                          Sorry about the rambling. Didn't catch this one early enough, waiting for the codeine to kick in.

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                            #28
                            Re: Migraines

                            Painkillers won't touch mine at all, and I read or was told because I'm on meds for depression (SSRIs) I cannot take migraine medication - so once it starts I just have to ride it out for 24-48 hours.

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                              #29
                              Re: Migraines

                              Imitrex is a migraine specific medication. It is not a narcotic or even a pain killer but it attacks the root physical cause of migraines. There are other similar meds now but when I was first introduced to Imitrex it was administered by injection. I learned to give myself the injections so I could use it when I needed it and not have to go into the doctors to have them do it. My children, who inherited migraines, use that family of meds. They get rid of the migraine with the only side effect being tired and/or sleepy. As I understand it they use that family of meds to diagnose migraine headaches. If it doesn't work then it isn't a migraine.

                              No pain killers ever touched the pain of my migraines either. I even had morphine injected in the emergency room back in the day and it had no effect on the pain at all.
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