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Rmatt
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recommended Docs?
« on: Feb 11th, 2004, 1:16pm » |
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How should I go about locating a good one in the Charleston, SC area?
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Re: recommended Docs?
« Reply #1 on: Feb 11th, 2004, 3:22pm » |
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Click on the "ouch website" button on the left. Once there look under "cluster help" for a list of recommended Dr's.
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Re: recommended Docs?
« Reply #2 on: Feb 11th, 2004, 4:35pm » |
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PHYSICIANS--LOCATING HEADACHE SPECIALISTS
The National Headache Foundation, 1/888-643-5552, will send a list of doctors, by state, who have self-identified themselves as being interested and experienced in treating headache.
I suggest using this source for several reasons: first, we have read several messages from people who, even seeing neurologists, are unhappy with the quality of care and ATTITUDES they have encountered; second, the clinical director of the Jefferson (Philadelphia) Headache Clinic said, in late 1999, that upwards of 40%+ of U.S. doctors have poor training in treating headache and/or hold attitudes about headache ("hysterical female disorder" which block them from sympathetic and effective work with the patient; third, it's necessary to find a doctor who has experience, skill, and a set of attitudes which give hope of success. This is the best method I know of to find such a physician.
www.HEADACHECARE.COM. See physician finder; limited listings.
WWW.ACHENET.ORG American Council for Headache Education.
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Re: recommended Docs?
« Reply #3 on: Feb 11th, 2004, 8:15pm » |
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on Feb 11th, 2004, 4:35pm, Bob_Johnson wrote:
the clinical director of the Jefferson (Philadelphia) Headache Clinic said, in late 1999, that upwards of 40%+ of U.S. doctors have poor training in treating headache and/or hold attitudes about headache ("hysterical female disorder" which block them from sympathetic and effective work with the patient; |
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Forty percent must be an extreme underestimate. If that were true, then sixty percent of US MDs would have GOOD training in treating headache, and the odds would be better than 50-50 of getting a good one with one try. With all of the people posting about seeing multiple MDs prior to even getting diagnosed properly, it is VERY hard to believe that statement.
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No, it's not a headache--it's a Stage Ten Primary Chronic Periodic Idiopathic Trigeminovascular Cephalalgic Crisis.
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Re: recommended Docs?
« Reply #4 on: Feb 11th, 2004, 9:12pm » |
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Finding a "Good" one is a crapshoot, at least it has been in my experience, however, the others have gotten you off to a great start.
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Re: recommended Docs?
« Reply #5 on: Feb 11th, 2004, 11:34pm » |
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Matt, I am calling one of our sisters who lives in Columbia, and see if she knows a clusterhead down in Charleston who can help you.
Hopefully she can help you.
Chuck
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Re: recommended Docs?
« Reply #6 on: Feb 12th, 2004, 8:12pm » |
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I did an educational module today about..........migraines. (Aren't any for clusters as far as I know.) It said that one large study found that only 48% of migraneurs were properly diagnosed with the most common misdiagnoses being sinus headache (sound familiar?) and tension headache.
If migraneurs with their well-known affliction only get diagnosed properly 48% of the time, then that really leaves us ClusterHeads sh*t out of luck trying to get diagnosed. (There are about 5 million of them in the US compared to less than 300,000 of us.)
There was no mention of how many physicians the migraneurs saw to reach an overall 48% level of proper diagnosis.
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No, it's not a headache--it's a Stage Ten Primary Chronic Periodic Idiopathic Trigeminovascular Cephalalgic Crisis.
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