May

13

Mirgraine….I Live with Shadows

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I am waiting.  Any second a migraine could show up.  My eyes are clouded with shadows and little flickers of sparkly lights are firing.  Some days this happens and it goes away.  Not so sure I will pull out of it today.  It is hard to say for sure, I have gotten so accustomed to shadows.  It is allot like watching T.V. with a major glare on the screen.  I can sort of see. 

If I were a child still, I would give the shadows a name and pretend they are little haunting creatures that are more than a little evil, like gargoyles hanging around waiting for something……

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?

May

5

Migraine Support for Moms - Build Empathy not Bitterness

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Having children and coping with migraines can be overwhelming and depressing.  My five year old asks me nearly every morning if I think I will have a bad headache today.  His blue eyes look at me with a degree of pity that I hate seeing in someone so young.  He hurts when I hurt.  I wish I could be the supermom that never gets sick, never cancels a trip to the park because of a headache and is always running around tossing her children merrily in the air.  I am not that sort of supermom.  However, I am a supermom none the less.  While it breaks my heart that my boys already know in life that I am not very well and that our day is suspended by the tiny thread of my health and that it can snap at any moment.  But, I can not help but feel proud of them.  Already they show signs of a deep compassion for people who hurt, and for me when I can not do what they or I want.  It is my hope that if I work hard, my boys will not be badly impacted by my health problems, but will be better men for their sincerity and empathy.  Even in the grips of the worst pain of migraines and other sickness I cling to my belief that nothing can keep me from giving my children the best opportunityto be great people.  Adversity can breed depression and bitterness but given the right angle and determination it can also create a sort of quantum leap in character growth.  My children are already characters, I simply need to help it grow into something wonderful.

Apr

15

Migraine Pain Cycles - The Brakes didn’t Work

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It is a common complaint among women that they tend to get their migraines during or around their periods.  This is true of me as well.  As mentioned before I suffer from hypothyroid and am being treated for it through a medical doctor.  I do not like medical doctors, but am left with little choice when it comes to some problems.  So in a wild attempt to stop the migraines and a few other health problems I cope with around my period I went to my thyroid doctor and suggested that I try going on a birth control pill to stop my periods all together. I wanted to try putting the brakes on the cycles of pain I seemed stuck in. This seemed like a good idea to her, so the next day I started taking the pill.  Six weeks in I had no migraines and my other major health problem (inerstitial cystitis) had not flared up so I was getting hopeful. However like most of my experiences in the medical world I was destined for disappointment and additional bitterness.  On the seventh week of taking the pill I had a migraine and a cystitis flare up which are usually markers that my period will start soon.  Sure enough my period started two days later withanother migraine.  I was frustrated that the pill had not worked but I figured that it was fluke and when it was over I would press on in my theory of stopping the cycles.  Unfortunately my period lasted 4 weeks and three days.  I called my doctor concerned after the first ten days had passed and was shocked that my doctor casually said “I am not surprised, women with thyroid problems react to the pill like that fairly often.”  Wow, I wonder how difficult it would have been to mention that like a couple months ago when I first came in.  Of course she has not had to suffer through five blinding migraines and an array of miserable pains and ailments so it should not be shocking in the end.  Why should I be surprised at all? I blame myself really.  If I would just learn to stop hoping that doctors have cures or any reliable help to offer.  If you think about it when a doctor says with a big grin ‘We have a treatment for that’ they are not saying much.  The medical world is in the profession of treatment not healing, and rarely curing.  If I continue working with doctors on my health, I will die young and probably addicted to a heaping pile of medications, not to mention insane.  Insane may come first, or maybe it came already and I missed it, or worse I have lost it and am mistaking it for being eccentric.  I wonder if their is a pill to help people who are eccentric?  And if so does it work on people who have hypothyroidism?

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