Posts by sarcozona
A vote for a third party candidate isn’t always a vote for Trump
Lots of people are yelling about how if you don’t vote for Clinton you may as well be voting for the Trump monster. Because of the wonders of the electoral college, that’s not true in many states. If you’re a lefty who lives in a solid red state where Clinton can’t win, vote for whoever […]
Plant spa day
Priorities
I’ve read more papers on my illness than I have on my PhD topic. I’m never going to graduate, am I?
expose/pose
Psychological explanations of migraine remain an extraordinarily popular trope in self-help books for migraine care. Take, for example, the most popular self-help book on this topic, Heal Your Headache: The 1.2.3 Program, by David Buchholz, a neurologist from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Buchholz recommends a strict treatment protocol for migraine prevention, which includes the […]
June migraine log
A graph of my migraines over the last few years. July 2016 data thru day 12. Severity continues to decline, but frequency doesn’t seem to be budging much. The number of days with migraine looked like it was starting to go down before June – which was when I started my gradual ramp-up of work. […]
Botox for migraines – time for improvement
When I first got Botox it didn’t do a goddamn thing – except paralyze my forehead. But after I’d gotten multiple rounds of injections over the course of 6-9 months, I saw real improvement in the intensity of my attacks. Now, there’s evidence showing that you could still expect big improvements from Botox even after […]
The internal milieu of the un-curable patient
The embrace of biochemical approaches meant the corresponding rejection of psychogenic theories. … That the efficacy of a medication should erode a psychosomatic theory is not surprising. This is a fairly common phenomenon. Several disorders understood to be psychosomatic (depression or stomach ulcers, for example) were reframed as somatic with the discovery of effective medication. […]