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Writing this hoping it will help someone, so being really sloppy on argumentation. Just take the following as my personal experience anecdote. If that new (or

Writing this hoping it will help someone, so being really sloppy on argumentation. Just take the following as my personal experience anecdote. If that new (or any) drug works for you - great. But consider that there are no nerves that are responsible for the pain feeling in the brain itself. So we must conclude that the pain is psychological and should be treated that way. For me the treatment was a routine to pull out my (silly) fears from being consciously or unconsciously suppressed and verbalize them. Once those fears were verbalized the headache would go away. So in my case the headache was a signal of an important thinking to be done that I have blocked away. Verbalizing was initially easier by just writing down all thoughts even most silly on a piece of paper. Later I could do it in my head. Maybe it’s a different thing in your case, still chances are you can find an exit “backtracking through the entrance into your condition”, so to say. The challenging part is to get the insight as to what your deadend looks like.

Broken_Hippo 8y ago
I know this is helpful, please read through to the end. I think there is danger in the original thought: That the pain is psychological. This most definitely isn't always the case and tends to make folks not take the pain seriously. This is a major problem for women: They are already sometimes told the pain is all in their head with migraines, especially if PMS and hormones are triggers. And besides, we know that brain tumors can make folks have migraine-type headaches. Blood pressure can cause headaches. And so on. I'd much rather it state that psychological issues can be a contributor: We can't presume the pain itself is psychological. That said, it'd be silly to think that things like stress never affect it. This is especially true if you get cluster headaches or if stress is one of your triggers. My mother is like this: She gets cluster headaches that persist for months. Part of her treatment is to take an anti-anxiety medication. Granted, this does not stop the headaches, just makes them slightly less frequent or at least gives them less intensity on a daily basis.
- flatfilefan 8y ago
  By all means go and try to get to the root cause if there is one. However taking your example with the blood pressure let me tell you another story of mine. So I had been diagnosed with a constantly high blood pressure and prescribed medication. It was a good thing because I have for first time in many years realized what normal blood pressure feels like. And it felt good! My doctor is a good one though and she told me that the medication is not a solution to my problem as there is no clinical reason to it. I had to find a way to control my blood pressure without the pills. And I have found the solution - a power nap. I just have to have some 15-60 minutes siesta after 4 hours of work. The thing is, nobody and nothing was forcing me to have a high blood pressure, it was me myself. See? It's easier said than done, you might say. But I have done it and now I'm telling you about it. And it's not easy to convince you :-)
facetube 8y ago
Very sloppy. Actually, just bullshit. Approximately ten minutes before my pain starts, I begin to sneeze uncontrollably and vomit even with a completely empty stomach. This continues throughout the pain, and has lasted in excess of 72 hours before. They are spontaneous and there is no identifiable trigger, even after 25 years of looking. How do you suggest I think my way out of this one?
- flatfilefan 8y ago
  Maybe a first thing is to look at your attitude. I am serious. You come as very unaccepting in your first two sentences. It may be the cause of you not being able "breath the same air with somebody else on this earth", hence sneezing and vomiting, like if that person would make you barf. May be in this case it is me. We do not know each other yet you declare my true story being bullshit. Can you see that this is entirely in _your_ head?

Broken_Hippo 8y ago

I know this is helpful, please read through to the end. I think there is danger in the original thought: That the pain is psychological. This most definitely isn't always the case and tends to make folks not take the pain seriously. This is a major problem for women: They are already sometimes told the pain is all in their head with migraines, especially if PMS and hormones are triggers. And besides, we know that brain tumors can make folks have migraine-type headaches. Blood pressure can cause headaches. And so on. I'd much rather it state that psychological issues can be a contributor: We can't presume the pain itself is psychological. That said, it'd be silly to think that things like stress never affect it. This is especially true if you get cluster headaches or if stress is one of your triggers. My mother is like this: She gets cluster headaches that persist for months. Part of her treatment is to take an anti-anxiety medication. Granted, this does not stop the headaches, just makes them slightly less frequent or at least gives them less intensity on a daily basis.

flatfilefan 8y ago
By all means go and try to get to the root cause if there is one. However taking your example with the blood pressure let me tell you another story of mine. So I had been diagnosed with a constantly high blood pressure and prescribed medication. It was a good thing because I have for first time in many years realized what normal blood pressure feels like. And it felt good! My doctor is a good one though and she told me that the medication is not a solution to my problem as there is no clinical reason to it. I had to find a way to control my blood pressure without the pills. And I have found the solution - a power nap. I just have to have some 15-60 minutes siesta after 4 hours of work. The thing is, nobody and nothing was forcing me to have a high blood pressure, it was me myself. See? It's easier said than done, you might say. But I have done it and now I'm telling you about it. And it's not easy to convince you :-)

facetube 8y ago

Very sloppy. Actually, just bullshit. Approximately ten minutes before my pain starts, I begin to sneeze uncontrollably and vomit even with a completely empty stomach. This continues throughout the pain, and has lasted in excess of 72 hours before. They are spontaneous and there is no identifiable trigger, even after 25 years of looking. How do you suggest I think my way out of this one?

flatfilefan 8y ago
Maybe a first thing is to look at your attitude. I am serious. You come as very unaccepting in your first two sentences. It may be the cause of you not being able "breath the same air with somebody else on this earth", hence sneezing and vomiting, like if that person would make you barf. May be in this case it is me. We do not know each other yet you declare my true story being bullshit. Can you see that this is entirely in _your_ head?