Archive for 2016
Botox is woefully underused in the treatment of chronic migraines
nyheadache: The FDA approved Botox injections for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches more than five years ago. I just discovered that in this period of time only 100,000 chronic migraine sufferers received this treatment. According to the Migraine Research Foundation, 14 million Americans suffer from chronic migraines, so less than 1% of them have […]
To did
Today I canceled my breakfast plans worked hard on not vomiting for 2 hours made my bed made eggs and toast responded to responses to my ad for a cleaner because I’m too sick to clean my own damn house emailed my psychologist to quit therapy because I keep missing appointments because I’m so sick […]
IMG_9987 Happy as a Clam by Dan Forg Via Flickr: Tomcat. @the-chronic-way is my very first follower! Yay!
Level 3 pain
Pain scales don’t do a great job describing functionality. My head hardly hurts today, but I’m so weak I can’t sit up straight and I have to prop my phone on a pillow. I can type a little something, but since everything is moving I can’t make sense of rows of data or graphs or […]
Not Tonight examines how migraine can simultaneously disrupt so many lives and continue to be questioned and trivialized by the culture at large. Why do some kinds of pain generate deep sympathy and hefty economic investment, while other kinds are ignored? Why do we privilege and even praise some sorts of pain, while others are […]
Life and Migraine (2005)
Life and Migraine (2005) Looks like there’s already a documentary about migraine I can watch while I’m waiting for Out of My Head to get made. But I couldn’t find it on Amazon and canistream.it didn’t even know about it. Where oh where can I get it??
People tell me I’m smart but
I’m actually trembling from pain/weakness and simultaneously feeling guilty about not working.