My family, on my fathers side, has a history of migraines. I am 31 and haven't had them, so hopefully I have missed it. However, my father, and to a much greater extent, my aunt...get them VERY bad. Now...the obvious relevance here is that this ball clubs franchise player suffers from, what appears to be, severe migraines...and at a very early age. I don't want to sound alarmist, but I know from my aunts experience, that there is no guarantees that this problem can be remedied. I know with her, she often (literally) has to lay down in a dark room and stay there for 24 - 48 hours. These things are not headaches. They are MUCH MUCH MUCH worse. She can feel fine...and then boom, she's got it. If Steve is in the severe category, it will effect his career. Possibly even ruin it. Let's hope that's not the case.
What if he had to retire tomorrow? We would be stuck with TLD.... forever ....and ever ........and ever.
There are TONS of drugs that have come out recently to help reduce the occurance and to get rid of the pain. Although I was skeptical at first, Excedrin Migraine does get rid of mine when I take it EXTREMELY early in the headache. I have been taking Imitrex for years and so has my mom. We both get them very badly. My aunt takes something too that help hers. I really don't know of any man who gets them, other than Francis and a few other sports figures. Has he tried any drugs and if so, which ones (if anyone knows). Migraines are so hard to diagnose. They're caused by an increased serotonin level and constricted blood vessels. It's mostly inherited, but various things trigger them for different people...caffine, hormones, too much or too little sleep, other foods, just to name a few. I've also heard that several people who have thought they had migraines have recently discovered that they had bone fragments in their nose/sinus cavity that could cause similar headaches or trigger migraines. The people who have had these removed have been drastically better. There's so much help out there. I hope he can find something that will work. It'd be a shame for his career. Such talent, so young. They make it so hard to function from day to day. Sometimes, you learn to deal with it to a certain extend. My boyfriend doesn't always know when I have one because sometimes they happen so often, you have to suck it up and get things done. And you learn to hide some of them. But I know how bad they are. Going to the emergency room to get shots for them is not fun. Good luck, Steve!
TLD is the little dribbler, Moochie. I've started getting migraines the past 2 years. This is an old-fashion cure. TEA. If someone can get this to Francis, maybe Jeff or oeilpere or Clutch, somehow, HOT Tea. Ok. First. You need to cool some down. Then, you wash your eyes with it (like for lenses, the cleaner thingie). Then, when you've done that, drinka small cup of hot tea. My family's used this method, almost 150 years (no kidding), and it has never failed. So, pass this info on, it beats Steve taking tons and tons of drugs don't you think?
everyone's migraines are uusally stopped by differnt t hings.. pretty much the only way to get rid of mine. is a dark room and have to catch it early in the migraine..
I've had hot tea get rid of mine too, but not always. I've been taking my drugs for years and there are no side effects whatsoever. And I haven't talked to anyone who uses drugs (mine or another type) who would stop taking them. Everyone I know that has migraines finds some drug that works for them. The dark room thing helps ease my pain, but never actually gets rid of the headache. Also, it's possible to have a migraine and not have your head hurt. But it still causes the nausea (sp?) and other pain. There's really like 6 types of migraines. Depending on which ones he gets might help getting rid of them.
There is one side effect.....they are destroying your liver. All pharmaceutical drugs are toxic to your body and destroy your liver (which has the role of filtering toxins out of your blood). That includes seemingly innocuous things like aspirin, tylenol, etc. Bottom Line: If man made it, it's toxic to you. Pharmaceuticals drugs are sympton based. Very few, if any, ever get to the root cause of the problem. Someone said Steve drinks soft drinks. That would be the first thing that I would eliminate from my diet. I am going to keep posting the following until the message gets through: I have posted this several times before but don't know if anyone passed the info along. Since you are obviously tight with someone close to the Rockets, I wish that you would relay the message. I know some people like to ridicule the thought that food and plants can actually heal people. That is why I come with my Merck Index in hand. Merck, the pharmaceutical giant, publishes this book. They categorize every chemical in the world, including botanicals, and also assign a Therapeutical Category for each one. I just bought the 13th edition of this book and on page 786, chemical 4437, we find Gingko. The Therapeutic Category in the Merck Index for Ginkgo is "Nootropic. Used for the treatment of vascular insufficiency." The word Nooptropic comes from Greek roots and means "acting upon the mind." This isn't what some herbalist in Colorado Springs dreamed up. This is what the colossal pharamaceutical company Merck says. They admit that Gingko is good for the brain and is used for the treatment of vascular insufficiency. DO NOT go buy Gingko at the store. Most herbal product do not contain very many herbs, if any at all. Also, herbs that are imported into this country and the majority that are grown in this country are gassed with Ethylene Oxide Gas Chambers to kill bacteria. You want to buy herbs in tincture (liquid) form. Health is a passion of mine and the best herbs anywhere on the market come from the American Botanical Pharmacy. One of their many products is called the BRAIN FORMULA. If it can help Alzheimer patients, it can help with migraines. 1-800-HERB-DOC Please pass this on to the Rockets and Steve.
I don't believe that ALL drugs are toxic to the body. If they are, so is ever food. There isn't a day that goes by that we don't hear on the news how a food we thought was good is now bad, or visa versa. Nothing is perfect. I have known people living that are 90+ years old who have taken drugs for various things most of their lives. Without drugs, very few people would even be living to that age, let alone still active. Mirgrains are caused by a chemical inbalance of serotonin. There are man made drugs that can help this, as well as herbal supplements. 5 HTP is a serotonin balancer. He could try that. But I don't think it's any better than man made. The drugs used to treat migraines adjust your hormone level. Until I see some actual proof, I'm stading by my recommendation.
I don't care what everyone thinks, but I'm 20 now and I've been getting migraines since I was younger than 10. And my mom has gotten them her whole life. You don't have to listen to me, but I do know what I'm talking about. Not only does my whole family suffer from them, but I have done extensive research on the subject and written papers on them for classes. And I've never received less than an A. There are very good drugs that can help and allow him to live and normal, healthy life.
Freak, All pharmaceutical products are poison. Maybe, but that would be a VERY LIBERAL definition of what poison is. I could probably take aspirin every day until I'm 210 years old without suffering the cumulative effects of the poison. You fail to mention that lots of substances in nature are also poison.... just because it grows doesn't mean you should eat some of it. Our life expectancy increases with the development of medicines and technology. Sure, there is some truth in what you say. It is a lot easier to prescribe medication for someone who is drastically overweight and suffers from high cholesterol than it is to get them to alter their lifestyle. That doesn't mean that it isn't appropriate to treat symptoms to improve someone's quality of life. You are making some absurd blanket statements. Don't believe everything you read. Wait until you or someone you love gets cancer - you'll be happy for that poison the evil doctors call chemotherapy. Also, regarding the "Brain Formula". I'm not a doctor, but I don't have the slightest idea why something that would help Alzheimer's patients would help migraine headaches. Alzheimer's is an incurable degenerative disease that I don't think has anything to do with blood flow in the brain. (that would also mean that any medication for Alzheimer's would be treating symptoms - oh no!) Migraines are something entirely different. The only similarity is that they effect the same organ in the body.
This is the single most ridiculous thing I've ever read. It's absolutely idiot. You do understand, don't you, that asprin was originaly derived from the white willow? The willow contained salicylic acid, which was too irritating and toxic so chemists developed acytlsalicylic acid, (aka asprin) which is less toxic than the former. Whenever you go to the healthfood store and get 'slippery elm' you're getting salicylic acid. Another example: Say I synthisize morphine in a lab. Then I go out, harvest my papaver somniferum, and extract the morphine from it. Is the natural morphine less toxic than the synthetic morphine? Or perhaps cocaine? How do you think the ginko works? It works as a result of chemicals in the ginko bibola trees, chemicals that can be synthesised in the lab. Your statement comes from some superstisious modern luddite fear of technology. Normaly I'd let this kind of empty, fuzzy thinking go, but to compound matters, you've decided to plaster some freaking infomercial all over several threads. That makes you not only an idiot, but most likely a shyster looking to make a buck.
