"Well, I read an article about it, so I took mine out and rubbed it all over my forehead. But it didn't make the migraine any better, and the other people on the subway all started staring at me." *
*Admittedly, I've seen far stranger things while riding the Grumpyville Subway System.
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I didn't know you could put a ring around one.
Ya know if it would help with my hot flashes too I might consider talking with my doc about one.
If it really worked, I'd be willing to wear one in each ear, in my nose and around my neck!
I can't help but wonder if the control group in this study were given jelly bracelets from the 80s as a placebo.
Wait, so it's not a pill I'm supposed to ingest?
The secret compartment of my ring I fill...
Hmm...maybe I should choose a FEMALE hobbit next time...
So estrogen can help with easing migraines or headaches, wow, that's breakthrough news! I though it was well known that birth control can ease headaches for many women, just any physician, PA, or a pharmacist.
On a side note, this guy is talking about his training in clinical gynecology, yet he is teaching in department of anesthesiology and psychiatry. How is that more special than gyn training of other specialties? And how does that trump training of "many headache specialists"? I just don't get it.
Subway=NYC, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.
Time for the Beyonce song "All the singler ladies (put a ring on it.)"
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bad me
Yeah, the ring might improve migraines, but it doesn't do much for preventing pregnancy. I have my own "ring" baby and know several other women who have ring babies.
So, I'm a pharmacist, and I try to type up labels exactly the way the doctor wants the Rx labeled...
A few weeks ago a lady brings in a new script for her ear. I type it up just as it was written: "Instill 2 drops to affected ear. Shake well."
Yep, you guessed it. I get a phone call later in the day. The lady complains, "It hurts when I shake my head."
Re:Crazy RxMan that was Priceless!
The fun thing would be seeing a male ask for this!
How's it do for skin cancer? Oh, wait, I'm male.
Dear Dr G, can any of your readers actually, ya know, READ?!?
The article is about the effects of menstrual-related migraines. Not regular everyday life sucks in a basket of hell migraines.
Geez Luis. :-P
As for Mr. Rxman: Some years ago I was in the hospital for, well, let's just say I was being pumped full of mofeen, and between it and the high fevers I didn't know which way was blue. One of the doctors wrote up that I should have some ointment applied to a particular area of my body.
The first time it was applied, a very sweet and kind Nurse (or maybe nursing assistant, I was too whacked out to really notice) read the orders, looked at the tube, and put the whole contents of the tube on my body.
About 3 hours later the MD came in to see how the particular area was doing and found it coated in goo. I blearily told him, "She said it read to apply the ointment in the tube, so she applied it all."
The doctor changed the orders.
It's not just everybody that reads MedScape, but once Good Housekeeping or Ladies Home Journal, or Self gets ahold of this, wait, did I mention Enquirer?
If it works I'd be willing to try it. Topamax is making me a walking moron. I got all the cognitive issues but none of the lucky weight loss and cant take beta blockers because my blood pressure bottoms out. And my neurosurgeon put in my records that I have an Arnold Chari Malformation(sp)not I am fighting with insurance over that.
Lets hope they didn't pull it out on the subway - yikes.
This reminds me of the Allegra commercials, which say that one of the main side effects of Allegra is menstrual cramps...I'd like to meet one of the male study patients, surely they did not study Allegra just on females...
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