Dr. Grumpy: "What's that?"
Mr. Migraine: "My neurotransmitters are creating a pro-inflammatory non-modulating environment of excitatory free-radicals resulting in stimulation of the trigeminothalamic activating system."
Pause
Dr. Grumpy: "So, what do you think that means?"
Mr. Migraine: "Don't know. I read it on a blog."
14 comments:
It means my head hurts.
Yay, Officer Cynical. First comment out of the box nails it.
And Dr. G good to see you messing with the patient.
Props to him for memorizing that.
Oh, and you're late, we covered migraines/triptans/ergots 3 weeks ago. Keep up.
Mr M: "So what should I do..."
Family Doc: "Take two aspirin and don't call me in the morning"
I don't know if that is right, sounds good. As Erin said, props to him for remembering all that(Organic chem made my eyes glaze)
Now the well-educated MD (or Yak Herder) should help him w/ the problem. I think it needs more that asprin . . .
Well, now I'VE read it on a blog.
I always wondered what caused my migraines. Silly me, I thought it was hormones, MSG, hormones and MSG. I'm glad I stopped by today.
That's the pathogenesis, what he really needs is the aetiology.
I once asked my hemotologist when he explained to me I have factor V Leiden "but what about the protein C independent function of protein S?" he didn't know.......
It was the subject of the promotion of a friend of mine and my hematologist was one of his promotors.
ha ha ha good one
Google-chondria wins again.
"I don't know what it is, but now I'm sure I have it."
There's a reason you should never google your symptoms.
I stay away from message boards about my condition for precisely this reason; my current symptoms are quite bad enough - I don't need to convince myself I've acquired more.
Oh! Trigemino-something! I have a little dental appliance I wear at night called a Nociceptive Trigeminal Inhibition Tension Suppression System, or NTI-TSS. It's meant to help prevent migraines. It kind of works (shrug). But it's fun to tell people what NTI-TSS stands for, even if I have no idea what the name means (something about clenching, apparently).
Oh man....and all these years I didn't know this until I read your blog!
the trigeminal nerve is a bad design... all over the place and bound to cause problems. should be re-engineered.
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