Migraine day 10

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This has been pretty horrible.

I am no longer really functioning emotionally or rationally, or at least as much as I ever was.

The doctor started me on another medication today.

I guess I will see if it helps.

I live within a short drive of a 3000' cliff, so there is always another option.

I feel for you; I get migraines too.

Suggestions of what I do: hide under covers to block out all light, noise, any other sensory inputs. Drink lots of water. Force myself to eat occasionally even if I don't want to. The homeopathic "coffea cruda" helps sometimes, depending on the cause of the migraine. Deep breathing. And a lot of just waiting for it to pass.

Sorry, that's probably not helpful. But remember that no matter how bad it is now, it will pass eventually.

If I have something to do, I can sometimes lose myself in it and put the pain at a distance, but it only works for so long and then I crash.

I crashed hard on Wednesday (day 8 ) and I have been under a blanket since. I have been drinking enough, but have probably only eaten 8 or 9 meals in the 10 days.

The doctor put me on dexamethasone today. Which is used to reduce swelling of the brain in high altitude pulmonary edema, among other things.

What do you teach?

German, primarily, but also taught AP Psychology for a few years.

I tried a couple migraine meds in my teens and found they did not better than rest and waiting to relieve the symptoms, so I quit taking any, ever. Besides, most contain caffeine, which for me is a trigger (I am one of a small minority of the population where that causes, not cures migraines), so the choices were limited to begin with.

A migraine that lasts for ten days may be a migraine or it may be something else. It is time perhaps to ask for an MRI.

My regular doctor has been on vacation, she is back on Monday. I was thinking about asking, but I get tired of having to force doctors to do their job.

Their stupidity wears me out. I know they can't be as stupid as they seem, they are just stuck having to ignore anything they don't expect to see. All of their A priori and filters they use to ignore most of the world.

Amen + 100.


I wouldn't bet on it.

Another victim of the medical "profession"

How is the migraine going today?

Omg I can't possibly empathize more with what you said. Doctors are some of the worst listeners of any profession. If your condition isn't on their predefined list of conditions they gave a s**t about, you can expect zero empathy from them, to sit on their ass and be totally indifferent to your suffering.

I have always said that doctors are like that useless group partner you get stuck with to work on a school group project together. They simply show up to class each time and sit on their ass doing nothing while you have to do all the work. You try to assign them even the simpliest tasks like the equivalent of writing your names on a title page and they are often too lazy, dumb and or incompetent to do even that.

They often go beyond just being useless and start to manufacture problems that didn't exist before they came along which is the equivalent of taking the work you have already done, folding it up into paper airplanes, and flying them across the classroom. That is how I see the doctor/patient relationship.

As someone once told me on another forum, "You have to be healthy enough to be sick" alluding to the constant bureaucratic hoops you must jump through, all the wild goose chases of tests and appointments you must run, the endless micromamagement of every last detail and the tireless self-advocacy required by the patient in order to survive.

It took 6 appointments in a row for my current family doctor to get it through his thick head that I have severe IBS-D. I literally told him and described in detail on each and every appointment and each time he acted like it was the first time I ever told him. They are so dumb.

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A little better, the dexamethasone is helping but the side effects are rough.

Thank you for asking.

Glad to hear that it is letting up a bit. What are the side effects like? Dizziness?

I know exactly what you are talking about. I look at every system from a evolutionary selection perspective.
If you look at how things change, you can infer what pressures were selecting for fitness.

Look at how cell phones evolved: 1)Huge/small capability 2)tiny/small capability 3)medium/medium capability 4)huge/large capability. What were the selection pressures: 1)Talk 2)talk/fit in pocket 3)talk/text 4)internet

What does medical school select for? Brilliance? No. Imagination? No. It selects for moderately intelligent plodders. They are not trained in data collection, and they lack the imagination for good a diagnosis.

Anyone with the skills for good diagnosis will go on to research, so for practitioners we are left with drones.

If anyone reading this is a doctor, please understand this is a broad generalization and covers doctors in general and likely will not cover a ND doctor.

I didn't sleep last night, I am jittery and can't sit still. It makes it hard to hide out underneath the blankets to avoid light and sound.

Maybe an eye mask and earplugs, so you can move/dance around a safe, open area without light and sound intrusiveness?

hadn't thought of that. I do wear dark sunglasses most the time anymore.