Got Migraines?

[Revoltingest]

This might be of interest....
New hope for migraine sufferers: Self-injected drug halves headaches | Daily Mail Online


New hope for migraine sufferers: Self-injected drug halves number of headaches in first breakthrough for 20 YEARS

• Treatment drastically reduces episodes by blocking pain signals in the brain
• After three months, 30% of those treated halved their number of episodes
• Drug is administered in a similar way to certain diabetes treatments
• Treatment was as safe as a dummy, with no one stopping due to side effects
• Migraines affect around one in seven; causing 25 million lost work days

 

[sun rise]

Treatment was as safe as a dummy, with no one stopping due to side effects

Huh? THat's weird wording. Safe as a dummy?

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

Huh? THat's weird wording. Safe as a dummy?

A "dummy" might be something like a saline injection or something. Something from a control cell in tests... where the patients are given a fake "something"... a "dummy". That's my best guess anyway.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Huh? THat's weird wording. Safe as a dummy?

Yeah...
They mean the control group, normally a sugar tablet or saline injection.

 

[sun rise]

Oh it's one of those British English idioms.

 

[Quetzal]

This might be of interest....
New hope for migraine sufferers: Self-injected drug halves headaches | Daily Mail Online


New hope for migraine sufferers: Self-injected drug halves number of headaches in first breakthrough for 20 YEARS

• Treatment drastically reduces episodes by blocking pain signals in the brain
• After three months, 30% of those treated halved their number of episodes
• Drug is administered in a similar way to certain diabetes treatments
• Treatment was as safe as a dummy, with no one stopping due to side effects
• Migraines affect around one in seven; causing 25 million lost work days

Nice! Thankfully I don't get these but from what I understand they are a nightmare.

 

[bobhikes]

This might be of interest....
New hope for migraine sufferers: Self-injected drug halves headaches | Daily Mail Online


New hope for migraine sufferers: Self-injected drug halves number of headaches in first breakthrough for 20 YEARS

• Treatment drastically reduces episodes by blocking pain signals in the brain
• After three months, 30% of those treated halved their number of episodes
• Drug is administered in a similar way to certain diabetes treatments
• Treatment was as safe as a dummy, with no one stopping due to side effects
• Migraines affect around one in seven; causing 25 million lost work days

I'm Highly suspicious but I'll talk with my neurologist. The numbers also are not that good 30% halved their migraines still means they get migraines. Plotting and charting takes time but by finding out the triggers I've reduced mine to 1 or 2 a year and usually when I'm away from home and don't have what I need to head them off.

 

[Revoltingest]

Huh? THat's weird wording. Safe as a dummy?

Brits....what can I say.

 

[Revoltingest]

Nice! Thankfully I don't get these but from what I understand they are a nightmare.

They don't bother me at all.
But then, I don't get them.

 

[Vinayaka]

They don't bother me at all.
But then, I don't get them.

I had a colleague who got them really nasty. I'd see it on her face at about 10 AM. She'd go home at noon, hubby would have to pick her up from school, as she was in no condition to drive. I got them, but not so severe as that. Always on the day off too. End of a Saturday volleyball tournament after 10 hours listening to screaming teenage girls cheer their team-mates on. Then it would last all night, and well into Sunday. Nothing worked. Nothing.

So any news on this front is welcome for anyone who suffers them, It can be debilitating. A scary factor is the thought that it will never go away. You just want to take a really heavy sedation drug, but that doesn't work either.

 

[Revoltingest]

Always on the day off too. End of a Saturday volleyball tournament after 10 hours listening to screaming teenage girls cheer their team-mates on. Then it would last all night, and well into Sunday. Nothing worked. Nothing.

Have you tried avoiding screaming teenage girls?
I do. Perhaps that's the secret, eh.

 

[Vinayaka]

Have you tried avoiding screaming teenage girls?
I do. Perhaps that's the secret, eh.

Hehe. This was 15- 20 years ago. I have avoided since then. I preferred coaching girls as they figured Coach knew something, worked hard in practice, and listened. Teenage boys, like their elders of the same gender, figure they know it all.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I used to get migraines...still do on occasion...but they call my continuous for 2+ years now headache a called a "chronic migraine," which is defined by neurologists as any headache experienced on more than 15 days per month. Very helpful. The symptoms of my continuous headache are unlike the migraines that I've experienced since my early 30s.

I doubt that this treatment would apply to me, but I'll make a note of it to ask next time I see my neurologist...

 

[Araceli Cianna]

I have chronic migraine but it'll be ages before they actually offer this as a treatment for us general population.

 

[ChristineM]

Brits....what can I say.

If only your ancestors would have thought to take a dictionary with them these little misunderstandings would never exist.

 

[Revoltingest]

If only your ancestors would have thought to take a dictionary with them these little misunderstandings would never exist.

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When one's emigration is hastened by crowds wielding
pitchforks & torches, one grabs haggis, not books.

 

[ChristineM]

When one's emigration is hastened by crowds wielding
pitchforks & torches, one grabs haggis, not books.

That was kind of them to dig you a path and light your way.

True one cannot live on words alone... Ask any second rate author.

And of course haggis is important. How could a true Scotsman live a fulfilling life without the annual haggis hunt?

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

And of course haggis is important. How could a true Scotsman live a fulfilling life without the annual haggis hunt?

This is a fallacy, of course, as there is No True Scotsman to do the hunt!

 

[ChristineM]

This is a fallacy, of course, as there is No True Scotsman to do the hunt!

Im a semi true Scotswoman, twice removed on my mothers side... ;-)

The haggis hunt was a traditional winter treat for us when ever we visited our home clan. The Gunn beaters would climb the hill and disturb the cunning and vicious haggis in their nests. We would chase, always clockwise round the hill. Why haggis only ran in that one direction ilI never know but it made the left rear leg, that did most exercise, the most succulent and tender. It was the privilege of the one who caught the vicious marauding haggis with their bare hands to eat the succulent left rear leg. For Burns night celebrations, only the left rear leg is piped in to the gathering and toasted as hero with a wee dram of rich, peaty, single malt.

Only a true Scotsman or woman would know this.

 

[Revoltingest]

Im a semi true Scotswoman, twice removed on my mothers side... ;-)

The haggis hunt was a traditional winter treat for us when ever we visited our home clan. The Gunn beaters would climb the hill and disturb the cunning and vicious haggis in their nests. We would chase, always clockwise round the hill. Why haggis only ran in that one direction ilI never know but it made the left rear leg, that did most exercise, the most succulent and tender. It was the privilege of the one who caught the vicious marauding haggis with their bare hands to eat the succulent left rear leg. For Burns night celebrations, only the left rear leg is piped in to the gathering and toasted as hero with a wee dram of rich, peaty, single malt.

Only a true Scotsman or woman would know this.