Nov

10

A Gentle Migraine’s Wake of Fear

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migraineA strange thing happened to me.  I had all the signs of a migraine, dizziness and a ringing in my ears. I ran to my purse swallowed down three Aleve and prepared for the pain.  I closed the drapes, got in my jammies and went pee because when I have to pee during a migraine it is horrible to have ot get the the bathroom and back.  Then I laid down and waited for the wave of misery I knew was coming.

 

It didn’t come, but it took me a full hour of lying there before I believed it.  I came out of my blacked out room to find my husband looking almost like a deer in the headlights. “What are you doing?” he asked.  I didn’t know what to say.  After eleven years of marriage I have never once been wrong about a migraine and whenever I have said I am getting a migraine it is a generally accepted rule in my home that I will hide out in my room and not emerge for at least four of five hours.

 

I wish that I could draw some sort of comfort from this fluke false migraine.  There is no doubt that I had the signs of a real migraine and my head did feel sensitive later which it always does when the original pain subsides.  I should be grateful I know.  But I don’t like it when my body changes the patterns I trust to be consistent for me.  While this migraine blew over gently, I am left wondering if it could swing the other way. Maybe the next one will do th opposite andfail to respond to the pain killers, or leave my blind and in agony for days?

 

I hate to be a pessimist, but fear and migraines are best buddies. I would rather things stay the way they are then to risk the teeter totter of the unknown.

May

11

Migraine Help - Essential Oils a New Best Friend

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I am migraine free.  Well at least for the last three weeks.  My eyes are so much better.  I have gone a whole week with out wearing a hat or being partailly blind.  I wish I knew why they come and go so feverishly.  I am still getting some pretty vicious headaches though.  I invested in some essential oils that are designed for headache pain.  I have been really surprised at how effective they are.  I have not tried them on a full blown migraine yet, but everyday head pain is being greatly improved by these sweet smelling oils.  I just can’t complain when the medicine I use does not harm my organs, make me sicker or interfere with my ability to speak in full sentences.  Essential oils aimed at relieving headaches, even migraines are a pleasant way to alleviate at least some of the pain.  I rub mine on my wrists and temples and in a few minutes I feel more relaxed and in less pain.  I carry my bottle in my purse everywhere I go now.

May

5

Swine Flu - Pandemic or Sales Gimmick?

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I hate the flu.  Like many people I got a flu virus every year for the first twenty years of my life and I suffered the fever, vomiting and respiratory ailments like everyone else.  I refused to take a flu shot because I hate needles.  Later in life I turned to natural health care instead of medical health care and have in the last ten years had the flu twice.  I still do not get the flu vaccine because I believe that it is evil (Or at least semi-evil, I do think it has a place just not on the plate of every American) oh and I hate needles.  I watch the flu season every year with curiosity and a painstaking effort to beef up my immune system and my children’s to avoid being sick.  This is how I know that every year there are over 25,000 - 30,000 deaths reported as being caused by a flu virus in the U.S.  The Swine virus has at this point caused two deaths in America since its outbreak.  So I am forced to wonder if the so called pandemic known as the swine flu is really as terrible as they are saying.

I know I am biased when it comes to the medical world.  I admit that I am bitter and resentful, its true.  But, does it not stand to reason that the drug companies that are oh so cozy with the CDC may have an influence in the general public concept of what is a pandemic and when they should all run to their doctors requesting vaccines and anti viral medications?  The CDC, doctors and the drug companies have this country running blind, fueled by fear.  20 times more anti viral medications have been prescribed in filled in the last week than the typical amount.  Huge shipments for flu vaccines are being hauled in.  This is last years vaccine.  This is a vaccine designed to fight the flu that went around starting last October, not the swine flu.  There is no vaccine for the swine flu.  Yet, doctors are happy to give you a shot of this relatively useless vaccine with just a dash of formaldehyde and mercury for extra health support.

The name Tamiflu, the popular antiviral drug, is on the lips of every person who has read up on the swine flu.  You hear people in the grocery store talking about it.  “At least we have Tamiflu”, or “I heard the president ordered more Tamiflu be stocked.”  I encourage you to do some even some light research on Tamiflu.  First you will discover that its capabilities are incredibly limited.  It claims that it can rid you of up to one day of flu symptom relief.  That’s it.  Tamiflu will cut one day off of your total flu suffering.  It won’t save your life or keep you out of the hospital.  However many people who take Tamiflu do suffer with phycosis or loss of full body mobility.  recent studies on this ‘wonder drug’ state that fifteen people have died from taking Tamiflu because they became so accident prone that they actually injured themselves fatally. 

I do not wish to make light of the deaths or suffering that the swine flu has caused.  However, a moment of reflection leads me to wonder is this so called pandemic a serious concern or did the drug company get overstocked on vaccines and antiviral medications?