[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 46, Issue 22..OT

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Gents;
Please beat it any way you can...( consequences considered)..pf

Ron Childers wrote:
> Reis,
> 
> The "garden variety" daily headaches usually disappear when I fire up the
> forge and start pounding on something with the power hammer. Not so the
> killer headaches which were traumatically induced. My doctor told the
> neurologist after my auto accident I was crazy as a run-over dawg within a
> reasonable degree of medical probability. That diagnosis doesn't sound very
> scientific, but power hammers are not widely known for curing headaches...
> 
> Ron C
> 
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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of ries
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 46, Issue 22
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> 
> I know everybody is different, but I have been getting migraines for  
> 30 years or so now.
> For me, I have realized a few things- my first bout, when I was 19 or  
> so, were definitely stress triggered, and basically, I learned to get  
> a lot mellower. And this helped for years.
> My second bout, when I was about in my early 30's, were diet triggered.
> Anchovies, which I love, got me every time.
> There are a variety of foods with similar enzymes in em- red wine,  
> dark beers, aged cheeses, dark chocolate, green peppers and others.
> Some I can eat without problem, others hit me hard.
> 
> Now, I get one once in a while, usually traceable to diet and being  
> rundown at the same time.
> 
> I get the classic aura's, followed by severe headache, light  
> sensitivity, and so on.
> 
> Luckily for me, as I get older, they are less severe- when I was  
> young, vomiting was derigerur.
> Now, almost never.
> 
> But I would suggest thinking about whether any diet triggers were  
> mysteriously coincidental- it sure isnt true for everybody, but if it  
> is something that simple, its easy to avoid.
> 
> Ries
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ron Childers wrote:
> 
>> Todd,
>>
>> You have my empathy. Relpac, (I think) has less killer side effects  
>> than
>> Zomig.
> 
> Well, last time around my doctor gave me 2 medicines to try.  They  
> were the same basic formulation, with one being stronger than the  
> other, the stronger one I belive was Relpac (my memory wants to say  
> Relpax, but I'm probably wrong on that).  I was supposed to try half  
> of the weaker one, and if I had problem with it to not take Relpac.   
> That one made me sick for 3 days.
> 
> 
>> Description: Imagine driving a rusty screw driver into the skull  
>> just in
>> front of the right ear, breaking off the tip then digging it out  
>> with the
>> shank. Blindingly debilitating, nauseating and breath arresting.  
>> Mere words
>> are inadequate. Does that sound like your case?
>>
>> Ron C
> 
> Well, I think I tend to run not quite as bad as some people do, for  
> which I'm grateful.  For most of the last 6 years I've had a  
> perscription for Vicodin which I take at the first visual onset, and  
> that seems to start kicking in before the pain hits.  I hurt, but it  
> is only the level of a bad normal headache and I can finish working  
> the day and then go home and lie down.  However, this and the last  
> time I didn't have my perscription close by are much, much worse.   
> I'm nauseated, hurt all over, things are too bright and start  
> shimmering and glowing and throwing off my balance. My head feels  
> like it is in a vise that has about half my scalp squeezed off,  
> except when it punctuated by the guy who comes by and crushes my  
> skull with a 20# sledge...excuse me..except when I sneeze or cough.
> 
> If I could pay $5000 every time this started to be able to avoid it,  
> I would.
> 
> Oh, and just to add some confusion into all of this, about every 15  
> or 20 onsets, it turns out to be an occular migrine.  That is where  
> you have all the visual onsets (shimmering, loss of vison, some  
> nausea), but you wind up getting no pain.  Since I can't wait to take  
> a pill to find out, because they are a lot worse if I don't take one  
> soon enough, when I do get them, I'm loopy and sick for the next  
> several hours.
> 
> Still better than the pain though.
> 
> Sorry about whining...
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