http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/migraine-attacks-barbiturates-and-narcotics-abuse-can-increase-frequency-of-migraine-attacks-200811276078 Entertainment, Showbiz, Celebrities, Television, Movies, Fashion! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:43:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/migraine-attacks-barbiturates-and-narcotics-abuse-can-increase-frequency-of-migraine-attacks-200811276078/comment-page-1#comment-3843 susan-jillian smith Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:18:38 +0000 http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/?p=6078#comment-3843 I would like to suggest you not use the word abuse. It creates a blame the victim mentality that is dangorous to say the least. When someone is in pain, extreme pain, they will do what ever they have must to get out of pain. If you are under the impression that doctors treat migraine people with the right amount of medication, you are wrong. We are undertreated all the time. Unless you know what that feeling is, to sit through 72 agonizing hours of pain, the kind that could lead to suicide, you have no right to flippantly write an article that suggests that we "abuse" medication. I have been abused by doctors, lovers, employers and the misinformed. I have tried to cope in a world that is very difficult for healthy people. If the end result of years of taking only those meds I could get - to get out of the hellish pain I was in, is summed up not as courage but as abuse - then there is something very wrong with your team of reporters. Do you suggest I stay in my work cubicle and scream in pain with each minute worse than the last or take the meds I can find and get out of pain? is that abuse? I would like to suggest you not use the word abuse. It creates a blame the victim mentality that is dangorous to say the least.
When someone is in pain, extreme pain, they will do what ever they have must to get out of pain. If you are under the impression that doctors treat migraine people with the right amount of medication, you are wrong. We are undertreated all the time. Unless you know what that feeling is, to sit through 72 agonizing hours of pain, the kind that could lead to suicide, you have no right to flippantly write an article that suggests that we “abuse” medication. I have been abused by doctors, lovers, employers and the misinformed. I have tried to cope in a world that is very difficult for healthy people. If the end result of years of taking only those meds I could get – to get out of the hellish pain I was in, is summed up not as courage but as abuse – then there is something very wrong with your team of reporters. Do you suggest I stay in my work cubicle and scream in pain with each minute worse than the last or take the meds I can find and get out of pain? is that abuse?

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