4 thoughts on “Women’s Emotions Do Not Cause Their Migraines”
So according to what some people believe about migraines, I should have been married at 13 and probably would have been divorced within a few years because my husband would have labeled me as “unable to cope” with anything in life.
I amazes me how misconceptions about common illnesses persist and tend to be disparaging of women if they are the primary sufferers.
If that is all you got out of the article, then you didn’t read it in its entirety. While I agree that marriage is not the answer, for anything really, there was more to it than just one comment about the past. Doctors, no matter what people like to think/say, do NOT know it all where the human body is concerned. In fact, a great many of them should probably go back to school!
I was being facetious.
Sorry I didn’t make that clearer.
I did read the entire article and I did get all the point(s). It’s just annoying, as I stated, that when women like myself are the primary sufferers of an illness that these base ideas are the ones that persist.
As a chronic pain patient – in addition to migraines – I also have to deal with the falsehoods that pain is a primarily psychological issue for women, while men get the early diagnoses and complete care they require, including the appropriate level of pain medications.
In addition, I’ve met my share of doctors who don’t seem to have been well-trained in their fields. I’ve been sick for 3 years and more than half of that time has been spent on misdiagnoses and suffering through incredible pain because of inadequate pain management.
I’ve experienced and continue to experience the same issues with doctors and treatment. I’ve had migraines for 19 years. It was the first side effect before Fibromyalgia began surfacing, but for years, I kept being told it was my concussion history and genetic history with migraines. Not entirely true, otherwise I’d ONLY have migraines.
I’ve never received quality pain management, but I have had a good neurologist who simply refuses to prescribe narcotics himself (that’s his policy, and I’m not sure why, but I’ve never pushed.). It’s in my emergency room plan that if I am admitted with a migraine they are to give me a shot of Demerol, if need be, but none of them have ever agreed to follow his prescribed procedures. They’ve actually accused me of being an addict or of drug-seeking. In the beginning, I knew very little about these drugs, so it was mostly be coming away in agony, feeling incredibly hurt, but now it just pisses me off and raises my blood pressure. I’ve never had Demerol for ANYTHING, so naturally, it enrages me. Then they want to keep me “for observation” because my blood pressure goes so high, they assume the machine is broken. No, they’ve simply angered me to the point where everything around me start breaking down, if it’s digital.
A lot depends on where you live regarding who gets better care, men or women. I do think men are taken more seriously by both male and female physicians whereas women are blown off, often by both sexes. I’ve never vibed well with that. I find it incredibly rude. Having moved in December, I am truly reluctant to seek out treatment where I now live because of all the new laws regarding pain medication, etc. I am in legitimate non-stop pain and I always worry about my temper in those situations. I try hard not to lose it, but I am pretty sure at some point, I’ll be on the ten o’clock news explaining exactly what you & I are discussing here. There’s an immense double-standard and women have been blamed for one thing or another since Eve! In 2016, that’s unbelievably shameful.
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 
So according to what some people believe about migraines, I should have been married at 13 and probably would have been divorced within a few years because my husband would have labeled me as “unable to cope” with anything in life.
I amazes me how misconceptions about common illnesses persist and tend to be disparaging of women if they are the primary sufferers.
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If that is all you got out of the article, then you didn’t read it in its entirety. While I agree that marriage is not the answer, for anything really, there was more to it than just one comment about the past. Doctors, no matter what people like to think/say, do NOT know it all where the human body is concerned. In fact, a great many of them should probably go back to school!
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I was being facetious.
Sorry I didn’t make that clearer.
I did read the entire article and I did get all the point(s). It’s just annoying, as I stated, that when women like myself are the primary sufferers of an illness that these base ideas are the ones that persist.
As a chronic pain patient – in addition to migraines – I also have to deal with the falsehoods that pain is a primarily psychological issue for women, while men get the early diagnoses and complete care they require, including the appropriate level of pain medications.
In addition, I’ve met my share of doctors who don’t seem to have been well-trained in their fields. I’ve been sick for 3 years and more than half of that time has been spent on misdiagnoses and suffering through incredible pain because of inadequate pain management.
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I’ve experienced and continue to experience the same issues with doctors and treatment. I’ve had migraines for 19 years. It was the first side effect before Fibromyalgia began surfacing, but for years, I kept being told it was my concussion history and genetic history with migraines. Not entirely true, otherwise I’d ONLY have migraines.
I’ve never received quality pain management, but I have had a good neurologist who simply refuses to prescribe narcotics himself (that’s his policy, and I’m not sure why, but I’ve never pushed.). It’s in my emergency room plan that if I am admitted with a migraine they are to give me a shot of Demerol, if need be, but none of them have ever agreed to follow his prescribed procedures. They’ve actually accused me of being an addict or of drug-seeking. In the beginning, I knew very little about these drugs, so it was mostly be coming away in agony, feeling incredibly hurt, but now it just pisses me off and raises my blood pressure. I’ve never had Demerol for ANYTHING, so naturally, it enrages me. Then they want to keep me “for observation” because my blood pressure goes so high, they assume the machine is broken. No, they’ve simply angered me to the point where everything around me start breaking down, if it’s digital.
A lot depends on where you live regarding who gets better care, men or women. I do think men are taken more seriously by both male and female physicians whereas women are blown off, often by both sexes. I’ve never vibed well with that. I find it incredibly rude. Having moved in December, I am truly reluctant to seek out treatment where I now live because of all the new laws regarding pain medication, etc. I am in legitimate non-stop pain and I always worry about my temper in those situations. I try hard not to lose it, but I am pretty sure at some point, I’ll be on the ten o’clock news explaining exactly what you & I are discussing here. There’s an immense double-standard and women have been blamed for one thing or another since Eve! In 2016, that’s unbelievably shameful.
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