Cannabis Chronicles

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Living Life with Migraine Disease authored by ~AFLAC~

I am hopeing that I can make this a series report on Migraine Disease, with types & names of commonly used medications, as well as different types of Migraine & headache. Keep in mind that any additions are subject to the level(s) of pain I have at any given moment, so my time, Life, and abilities are dictated by that on a daily basis.

Along the way, you are more than welcome to ask questions, and/or add comments.

First, a very short history of my own case:

I had my 1st Migraine about the age of 21. Through the next several years they became more & more often, until I had Cluster headaches nicknamed “Suicide headaches” for the higher rate of Cluster headache suffers committing suicide because of a lack of help for them. Cluster headaches, which is still very unknown about it’s mechanisms, so there had been very few treatments for it, but that too is changing! In the last few years, there have been many more discoveries made in the area along with medications used for it’s treatment!

This went on for years until all of the Clusters merged into one long, non-stop Cluster. However at that time period, my pain started to “change.” I was then diagnosed as having Intractable Migraine for the next number of years till present.

Fast forward to 2001-2002. I had known that all of the Pharmaceutical medications that I was taking, although no outward side effects showed, that there was no telling what they were doing to me inside. It was about this time a friend had sent me a small amount of Cannabis. The results were marginal, but it peaked my interest, which began my reading & studying into it and finally got to a point a couple of years ago that I started finding that stronger Indica’s did a good job at managing my own Migraine pain. It doesn’t totally rid me of my pain, but it does bring the pain levels way down to a very tolerable level. Almost normal…..normal in the sense of a more commonly lower held pain level of most Migraines. Tho, I recognize that people have different pain thresholds.

Of course I am still looking for the “Holy Grail”, but even I never find it for myself, my hopes are that I will find it for the patients I have taken under my care.

Genetic Research into Migraines
Migraine headaches are a huge health problem. In a 2004 report, the World Health Organization (WHO) called migraines and headache disorders a global public health calamity.
Migraines and other chronic headache conditions are disabling. In the same report, the WHO ranked migraine as one of the top twenty conditions in the world to cause years of healthy life lost due to disability. Migraines and all other headache disorders combined rank in the top ten causes of disability. As a result of the increasing global recognition of migraine as a health threat, genetic research into the condition has multiplied exponentially in the last ten to fifteen years.

For more information see the Migraines Expert