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Archive for March, 2007

Grand Rounds at Blog, MD

This week’s Grand Rounds is up at Blog, MD. Not familiar with this blog carnival? It’s a weekly glimpse into the medical blogosphere. You can find the Grand Rounds archives on Blogborygmi.

Acceptance, My Best Treatment

This flowed out of Don’t Give Up on Finding a Treatment. It’s the most effective of all the headache treatments I’ve tried — and the hardest to get. You may be surprised to learn I feel I’ve had success in treating my headaches. I still have pain, mental fogginess, a super sniffer and many other [...]

Scented Police Officers

Lemon- and rose-scented uniforms are on order for police officers in Ahmadabad, a city in western India. The goal is to make officers “sweet smelling and sweat free” despite the vicious heat the city has half the year. What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. I hope doesn’t spread to the US.

This Time Last Year, March 11-17

Posts from The Daily Headache, March 11-17, 2006 Reporting on Narcotics & Headache: What a Mess A look at an article in ABC’s three-part series on migraine that I was really upset by. Reviewing the article, I saw something that now makes a lot of sense to me: “. . . Long-term use of narcotics [...]

Don’t Give Up on Finding a Treatment

In the last week, four people have told me that while they are comforted to know that other people have similar experiences with headaches and migraines, they are saddened to learn that their headaches may never go away. This is distressing as one goal for this blog is to encourage people to keep seeking relief. [...]

Disposing of Unused Meds — Don’t Flush Them!

Flushing unused medications down the toilet isn’t safe for people or the environment. It’s better to throw old meds away. And best to “mix the medications with kitty litter or used coffee grounds and put them in ‘impermeable, nondescript containers, such as empty cans or sealable bags’ before tossing them, to help prevent accidental ingestion [...]

The Nutty Lady at the Coffeehouse

That’s me. I bounce from one table to the next as new people sit down. Once I even shifted all my stuff to a new table, started to sit in the chair and then moved everything back to one seat over from where I just was. It’s not like I just moved my latte back [...]

Grand Rounds at ScienceRoll

This week’s Grand Rounds is up at ScienceRoll. Not familiar with this blog carnival? It’s a weekly glimpse into the medical blogosphere. You can find the Grand Rounds archives on Blogborygmi.

Headaches Following Stroke

A reader asked for information on chronic headaches that began after a stroke when the patient was in his late 50s. All that I find is about headaches as a warning sign of stroke. Do you have know any sources on headaches following a stroke? If so, please leave a comment. Thanks!

“You Have What You Have — Good and Bad”

“If I ever have kids and they’re upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody has it much worse, that doesn’t change the fact that you have what you have — good and bad.” [...]