tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post5732423716206655158..comments2024-03-18T09:00:31.992-04:00Comments on Doctor Grumpy in the House: Dear Marketing Bozos,Grumpy, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09858110332436246760noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-45709812960815002372011-02-06T17:17:42.705-05:002011-02-06T17:17:42.705-05:00Hmmm...triggers are "stress" and "p...Hmmm...triggers are "stress" and "poststress activity." Sooo, the only thing that won't trigger my migraines is "PRE-stress" activity??? Perfect! I'll stop working, stop paying bills, stop raising my kids, and stop watching my diet & exercise. But wait...then I'll end up unemployed, homeless, obese, and lonely (because my kids would get taken away from me by the state!). What would that situation bring--prestress, stress, or poststress??? GEEZZZZZ!!!!! Are they serious????? While I'm busy ONLY allowing prestress in my life...guess I'll give them my uterus, too!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-2422798795354010582011-02-05T20:47:06.340-05:002011-02-05T20:47:06.340-05:00His doctor doesn't trust him for being proacti...His doctor doesn't trust him for being proactive about his health?? Okey dokey! That's the kind of doctor I avoid at all costs.Kat's Katshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05519016601947528061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-41194192730971468092011-02-05T15:28:04.374-05:002011-02-05T15:28:04.374-05:00Here's a related issue. My husband has severe ...Here's a related issue. My husband has severe allergy related asthma. He cannot use standard medications such as inhalers because they change his voice. He uses his voice to make a living. So, he has opted to wear a mask--all the time. It really, really works for him and has changed his life. However, you would not believe how many people, especially doctors, are actually offended because of this. He chooses to avoid his triggers by altering his life-style, which is what we all preach to our patients, but the very people who do the preaching get pissed off. I don't get it! Isn't life-style modification way better than pharmaceuticals any day? He actually had a surgeon refuse to preform surgery on him because he "didn't trust someone that wore a mask all the time". What the F is that about? Have we become so used to no one following the life-style modification advise that we think there's something wrong with someone who does? Would we become suspicious of a diabetic who lost weight?lovinmyjobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02251424092621233215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-22610568034278563212011-01-31T13:11:22.601-05:002011-01-31T13:11:22.601-05:00@ Anonymous Jan 28 11:48
2nd trimester pregnancy =...@ Anonymous Jan 28 11:48<br />2nd trimester pregnancy = near daily migraines for moi, rather than the manageable (and apparently avoidable?) monthly ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-37384937660596283532011-01-29T23:08:19.784-05:002011-01-29T23:08:19.784-05:00yeah, I like avoiding stress, but trying to avoid ...yeah, I like avoiding stress, but trying to avoid it all the time is stressful too...and I like "sleep"- too little or too much...I hope there's a big margin there because if it is just a few minutes either way, maybe they just made that up...Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11823118794294237278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-56871714116667553702011-01-29T10:04:07.272-05:002011-01-29T10:04:07.272-05:00Unfortunately, avoiding menstruation often means b...Unfortunately, avoiding menstruation often means bcps, which may also trigger migraines. <br /><br />Conclusion? A man wrote that one.The Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157821003454766570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-80289741396086224612011-01-28T12:48:32.140-05:002011-01-28T12:48:32.140-05:00I skip my period with the pill and it does decreas...I skip my period with the pill and it does decrease my migraines, which thankfully I am growing out of. But I've always wonders - what happens when you get pregnant? Do menstrual migraine sufferers get migraines during pregnancy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-39933452930085252662011-01-27T16:37:47.743-05:002011-01-27T16:37:47.743-05:00Which reminds me: I saw, a few years back, a resea...Which reminds me: I saw, a few years back, a researcher at UW talking about migraine triggers. According to her, it was still up in the air which comes first: The trigger, or the migraine. She pointed out that migraines start at least hours before any symptoms, with unusual activity in or very close to the parts of the brain that deal with breathing, appetite, &c. She said it is at least conceivable that migraines trigger a person's urge for chocolate or what-have-you, when they're back in the "getting started but you don't know it yet" stage.<br /><br />Not only am I not a neurologist, I don't even play one on TV. I passed a test, way back when, on the parts of the brain, but I couldn't pronounce them correctly then and still can't. So everything I just wrote could be bunk, either because it started out that way, or because I misunderstood what the smart lady was saying.Wayne Conradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595005905880642013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-63102147533420032392011-01-27T13:34:13.980-05:002011-01-27T13:34:13.980-05:00Hysterectomies are wonderful things! I also read t...Hysterectomies are wonderful things! I also read that Hawaii has the lowest amount of pressure and weather related changes, so all of us with migraines and/or fibro should immediately claim HI for ourselves.Cyndihttp://thebookliberationproject.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-88205622328740383932011-01-27T03:47:45.479-05:002011-01-27T03:47:45.479-05:00I've wanted to stop menstruation since it star...I've wanted to stop menstruation since it started over 35 years ago. Does this company know something we don't? Because I think they should damn well share. Periods suck!!! No fair keeping information secret!! :Dsparkly juleshttp://allthatsparkles.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-47725830542851830602011-01-26T19:55:32.942-05:002011-01-26T19:55:32.942-05:00another migraine topic. This is bound to go at lea...another migraine topic. This is bound to go at least 60 comments or more. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-78805730481633454782011-01-26T16:00:38.957-05:002011-01-26T16:00:38.957-05:00We get a "helpful" brochure every couple...We get a "helpful" brochure every couple months from our health insurance company about "preventing asthma symptoms" (because my son and husband both have it." <br /><br />It's the same damn information every 2 months. Use your peak flow, take your maintenance meds, use dust mite covers, etc etc. We've got it already! My husband has had asthma for over 30 years, WE FUCKING KNOW.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02503319755093772976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-47158999880348393012011-01-26T15:45:46.943-05:002011-01-26T15:45:46.943-05:00@ Diana: Propranolol was wonderful to reduce the n...@ Diana: Propranolol was wonderful to reduce the number of migraines for me too. Wonder drug!<br /><br />Once my neurologist gave me a list of foods to avoid, which could be triggers for migraines. Included in the list were canned figs... who has actually ever eaten canned figs? Or seen them?Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17204635978443190089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-24116074176660559562011-01-26T15:37:04.513-05:002011-01-26T15:37:04.513-05:00I wasn't even dx'd with migraines until af...I wasn't even dx'd with migraines until <b><i>after</i></b> MENOPAUSE, when my headaches got so much WORSE!<br /><br />(I probably did have migraines from childhood on, they just never were dx'd as such since I don't get auras.)<br /><br />Not every menstral period had a headache, and not every headache came at my period, but they coincided often enough that I had arrived at my own conclusion that there had to be some kind of correlation between them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-70247945634557478532011-01-26T15:35:14.652-05:002011-01-26T15:35:14.652-05:00::head:very very very soft pillow:: Weather chang...::head:<i>very very very soft pillow</i>:: Weather changes!! Weather changes!! <b>That's</b> why my head is falling off!! Which reminds me, where is my Imitrex injector refill?? Oh reeeeeefillllll! Oh reeeeeeeefillllll! Come to mi... uh, come to momma!<br /><br />(who really really needs to stop being an idiot, get off the computer and track down either the refill or that preloaded syringe now)Kat's Katshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05519016601947528061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-62266583070180465302011-01-26T15:26:42.004-05:002011-01-26T15:26:42.004-05:00we get more redundant and worthless pamphlets deli...we get more redundant and worthless pamphlets delivered to the pharmacy. most of the time they go from the mail to the garbage. why waste my counter space with this worthless drivel.pharmacy chickhttp://pharmacychick.blogpharm.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-33139506811836306322011-01-26T15:12:01.022-05:002011-01-26T15:12:01.022-05:00Reminds me of how nearly every disease has "l...Reminds me of how nearly every disease has "low socioeconomic status" as a risk factor.<br /><br />'Now, Mr. Jones, if you could just putt it together and get a job, I'm sure your lupus would clear right up"Not Househttp://iamnothouse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-89971998736907944262011-01-26T14:50:04.782-05:002011-01-26T14:50:04.782-05:00I see aspartame is on that list as a trigger. It i...I see aspartame is on that list as a trigger. It is one of the ingredients in Zomig-zmt, the disintegrator form of Zolmatriptan.<br /><br />Zomig-zmt also contains an artificial orange flavor that I find to be extremely nauseating, no matter what product I find it in.<br /><br />RSDSRSDSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-76198627914026486802011-01-26T13:02:56.917-05:002011-01-26T13:02:56.917-05:00Ok...I stopped doing #2 on your list.....MENOPAUSE...Ok...I stopped doing #2 on your list.....MENOPAUSE.<br /><br />Nope. STILL get migraines....<br />;)<br /><br />Can't win for losing here.Cartoon Charactershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871661908222892370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-49287209473585541272011-01-26T13:01:19.778-05:002011-01-26T13:01:19.778-05:00Oh man, I busted a gut laughing on this one!
I so...Oh man, I busted a gut laughing on this one!<br /><br />I so know all of these triggers. Guess I should have avoided that brain tumor, being a girl, and living in the Pacific Northwest.<br /><br />Thanks for the laugh.Bibliotekarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06896112760553996504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-46634993076325166702011-01-26T12:39:15.438-05:002011-01-26T12:39:15.438-05:00Pfft. I love these.
1. Tell that to the drunk...Pfft. I love these. <br /><br />1. Tell that to the drunk, dualie driving puke who ran me into the ditch and left me with a chronic subdural hematoma. <br /><br />2. Ah, check plus. The chemo has left me menstrual-less.<br /><br />3. Still looking into a portable, affordable "life in a vacuum" kit. Amazon still isn't carrying them...<br /><br />If it were really that simple, wouldn't we have already thought of that?! I've tried to ID and abstain from every possible trigger. Even with an ever evolving and goodly handful of "anti-migraine" meds - in addition to my cytotoxics, DMARDs, and steroids to stymie any lupus contribution - still have 3-5 a week. (I'm considering amputation at the neck, but my neuro says, as that's never been clinically tested and there are no good cochrane reviews on the best procedure, he can't recommend it in good faith.) But, nice try, ye marketing gods of Almotriptan.<br /><br />Thanks for the fun post Dr. Grumpy!Headstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08140416504973149357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-11571706599173559072011-01-26T12:34:11.114-05:002011-01-26T12:34:11.114-05:00I think maybe the head trauma suggestion was actua...I think maybe the head trauma suggestion was actually for "avoid too little head trauma"...because then you can be a marketing person.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16367085547379180938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-41310124381658064862011-01-26T12:26:48.508-05:002011-01-26T12:26:48.508-05:00Wow why didn't my dr tell me these things? 25...Wow why didn't my dr tell me these things? 25 years of migraines, and all I had to do was avoid weather changes, and not menstruate. Maybe I can now go back to drinking red wine, eating stinky cheese, and stop everything else I'm doing. <br /><br />If only it were that simple, sighMeaghannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-38735227404868530822011-01-26T12:23:46.595-05:002011-01-26T12:23:46.595-05:00Yeah, I love this advice. Given my biggest trigger...Yeah, I love this advice. Given my biggest triggers are weather changes and my period. So thank those marketing guys for me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06224647811353360785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883634615775822475.post-49425100138265973692011-01-26T12:00:24.223-05:002011-01-26T12:00:24.223-05:00I suffer from tension migrains and have had to mak...I suffer from tension migrains and have had to make a trip to the ER a couple times due to pain and nausea. When I was put on medication for high blood pressure my migrains suddenly weren't so severe. They are quite managable now. I thought I was imagining it and told my doctor about it. He confirmed that sometimes it does have that side effect. That's a side effect I can live with!Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16713023656124852823noreply@blogger.com