"Begala approved!"
Posted on 08/01/2009 2:37:20 PM PDT by La Lydia
Stacy Porter, 29, can’t remember a time when she didn’t suffer from crippling, relentless migraines before having the surgery that changed her life eight years ago.“I was diagnosed with migraines when I was 2 years old,” the New Philadelphia, Ohio, marketing executive tells WebMD. “I had about 15 days a month of severe migraine pain.”
Her symptoms included throbbing pain in her temples, nausea, and sensitivity to light so severe she remembers wearing sunglasses to more than one final exam in high school and college. None of the drugs used to prevent migraines helped, so her only relief came from medications that eased the pain but left her feeling drugged and out of it.
That all changed at age 21 when she had a surgery similar to that typically performed to remove crow's feet.
“After that I never had another migraine,” she says.
Plastic surgeon Bahman Guyuron, MD, of Case Western Reserve University, says Porter’s results are common, and his newly published study backs up the claim. Guyuron has treated more than 400 migraine patients with a modified version of a traditional forehead lift over the last decade, and he tells WebMD that the vast majority of them have shown dramatic improvement. His newly published study was designed to convince critics still skeptical of using plastic surgery to treat migraines.
Guyuron and colleagues randomly assigned 75 patients with migraine trigger sites in just one area to receive either real or sham surgery. The patients were not told which type of surgery they were getting...The surgery works like Botox injections -- now widely used, though not approved, for the treatment of migraines. In fact, patients in the active-surgery group got Botox injections first to determine if they were good surgical candidates.
One year later, 83% of the actual surgery group reported at least a 50% reduction in migraines, compared to 57% of the sham surgery group. Even more surprising, 57% of actual surgery patients reported complete elimination of migraines, compared to just 4% of sham surgery patients.
The study appears in the August issue of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery....
Nope, not available. The Obama Deathcare committee has decided that you can continue to suffer this little pain because they have to meet their budget.
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"Begala approved!"
PLEASE PUT BARF ALERT IN HEADER OF PICTURE SO PEOPLE CAN BE PREPARED TO SEE THE QUEEN OR NOT!
This is interesting. A friend had severe chronic migranes. Her best friend noticed that the day before one hit, she developed a little wrinkle between her eyebrows. It was 100% accurate in predicting the migrane.
Very interesting.
Imitrex, in both tabs and self-injections is the magic drug that gave me my life back 20 or 25 years ago. It is used for the treatment of migraines, and it is magical. It is not a narcotic, and gives hundreds of thousands of us relief. It dilates the blood vessels, as I understand it. In the case of the injections, it can eliminate a terrible migraine in a matter of a couple of minutes, sometimes less. No real side-effects
If you know anyone who suffers from migraines, tell them to ask their doc for Imitrex. If we get Obama Deathcare, we prolly won’t be able to get it, as it is expensive if you don’t have insurance. but soooo worth it.
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Sign me up! Migraines are one area when “just taking the pain pill” doesn’t work. Since grammar school I have had atrocious headaches. I’m now 54. It is so hard to figure out, especially at the onset of one, to figure out what type of headache I’m getting.
I have one now. It seems to be a migraine, but it could be tension. So, I’ve taken some meds and at this moment, the woosiness is developing and I’m probably going to sleep in about 15 minutes.
I’ll do almost anything to be pain free.
Imitrex
It doesn’t ALWAYS work for me. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, I feel I have to wait for that to clear the system before I take something else.
(Not only that, but I can’t get a doc to supply enough for me to take with me overseas. I’m the US for six months, then gone again for two years. Docs don’t like to write ‘scripts for two years. I don’t always settle in the same place in the US so I’m switicg docs frequently. Profile of a junky.)
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Paul Begala has not now or in the near future experienced such headaches!
LOL!!!!!!
My aunt goes in once a year and gets a botox shot in her neck, I think the back and it totally rids her migraines for about a year.
That is something to consider. Right now. I’ve just checked drug interactions since the first set of drugs didn’t work. That was the combo antihistimine plus acetaminophen.
I just took a combo drug called ANASKIK. Hopefully, I’ll be painfree in 45 minutes. If not, I am in for a very loooong Sunday.
Sorry to hear that Imitrex doesn’t always work for you. It ALWAYS works for me. There are some competing products on the same order of drug that you might try if you haven’t already.
Yeah, I hear ya on the doc thing — it used to be, I always had to get the scrips for Imitrex from a neurologist. And some of the neurologists were a**es about it — using me as some kind of guinea pig trying all kind of weird drugs that are normally prescribed for other things: aminitriptolyn, zoloft, etc etc, on me for preventatives, in order to give me my Imitrex scrip. None of the preventatives worked.
I always thought that getting the Imitrex Rx from the friggin specialist was a requirement of my insurance, because over many years and two different insurance companies, the GP’s wouldn’t give it to me — would send me to the neurologist for it. But when I had occasion to change GP’s last year, my new GP gives me Imitrex scrips whenever I like, and it is the same insurance company, and they cover it. Sweet! Because Imitrex gives me such important relief, I also admit to hoarding Imitrex over the years, whenever I was able to get a little more than I was using.
I can see your situation w/regard to Imitex is difficult, so good luck. I have also gotten Imitrex tabs in Mexico, without a scrip. It’s not as strong as American Imitrex, but, it is Imitrex. In case you ever live in a US border state and you are desperate for the product, try Mexico. Perhaps you could get it in some of the countries you live in overseas? ...
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