Author |
Topic: This hit me as Funny (Read 201 times) |
|
BarbaraD
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Hugs to ya
Gender: 
Posts: 5164
|
 |
This hit me as Funny
« on: Oct 31st, 2003, 7:25am » |
 Quote  Modify
|
Does anyone else see the irony in this?
Sounds like they're trying to sound like US! Limit activities? Miss work? What the heck? Guess I have a weird sense of humor, but this just struck me as funny.
Happy Halloween.... BD
sorry guys, I don't know how to put a LINK in so I just have to copy and paste. Some of us "puter illerates" have to still do that you know.
Aug. 18, 2003 -- By asking three simple questions, you may be able figure out if you have a migraine -- an often-missed diagnosis.
If you answer yes to at least two of these three questions, you could have a migraine, according to a new study.
Has a headache limited your activities for a day or more in the last three months?
Are you nauseated or sick to your stomach when you have a headache?
Does light bother you when you have a headache?
The study, appearing in the recent issue of Neurology, calls the test ID Migraine.
Migraines Often Misdiagnosed
Researchers say this test is a major breakthrough because as many as half of migraine sufferers go undiagnosed -- leaving many people frustrated from lack of answers for their pain.
"Because patients with migraine often present [themselves] in the primary care setting, the hope is that ID Migraine will help primary care doctors identify migraine quickly and easily," Richard Lipton, MD, vice chairman of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, says in a news release.
"ID Migraine is very easy to use for both patients and doctors, and we hope it will prompt patients to talk to their primary care doctor to get diagnosed and to receive treatments that will relieve their pain and improve their ability to function."
Easy as 1, 2, 3
Researchers tried out the migraine screener on more than 400 patients making routine primary care visits to their doctor. Each patient completed a nine-question survey. Patients in the study either had headaches that interfered with work, study, or daily life; or they wanted to talk to their doctors about their headaches. The patients were referred later to one of 12 specialty headache centers where specialists diagnosed them without knowing the responses to the questionnaire.
Later, researchers compared the diagnosis from the specialists with the nine-question survey and came up with three questions that could solidly determine which patients had migraines. The questions worked regardless of sex, age, presence of other headaches, or previous diagnosis.
The researchers estimate that these three questions would accurately identify 93% of people with migraines.
Migraine headaches are more common than diabetes or asthma. Migraines strike women more frequently than men. The exact cause is unknown. Because the condition is so debilitating, researchers say they hope their simple screening tool will help more people get a proper diagnosis. They note that sometimes headaches have serious causes not identified by the screener, but they say the test should get patients and doctors talking about what is going on.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------
SOURCES: Neurology, August 2003. News release, Neurology
|
|
 IP Logged |
What don't kill ya, Makes ya stonger!
|
|
|
BobG
New Board Hall of Famer
Gender: 
Posts: 5747
|
|
Re: This hit me as Funny
« Reply #1 on: Oct 31st, 2003, 8:12am » |
Quote Modify
|
Yes it is funny and sad.
Quote:| this test is a major breakthrough |
|
"Major" breakthrough...WTF?
Quote:| Because patients with migraine often present [themselves] in the primary care setting |
|
Well duh? Where else would they go?
Quote:| ID Migraine will help primary care doctors identify migraine quickly and easily |
|
Are they saying a primary care doctor can't recognize a migraine. Now that is scary! and sad.
|
|
IP Logged |
Stay stressed. Never relax. Never sleep. Ever.
|
|
|
BarbaraD
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Hugs to ya
Gender:
Posts: 5164
|
|
Re: This hit me as Funny
« Reply #2 on: Oct 31st, 2003, 9:03am » |
Quote Modify
|
Are they just NOW discovering MIGRAINES? And what's this "often misdiagnosed" stuff? I swear they've been reading OUR board.....except for the laying down in the dark room part...
|
|
IP Logged |
What don't kill ya, Makes ya stonger!
|
|
|
aprilbee
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Ain't I a stinkah!!
Gender:
Posts: 1442
|
|
Re: This hit me as Funny
« Reply #3 on: Oct 31st, 2003, 9:07am » |
Quote Modify
|
Wow! Talk about behind the times!!! These people are absolutely 100% like totally out of it!! 
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
brain_cramps
New Board Hall of Famer
Gender:
Posts: 2103
|
|
Re: This hit me as Funny
« Reply #4 on: Oct 31st, 2003, 1:03pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Oct 31st, 2003, 7:25am, BarbaraD wrote:Has a headache limited your activities for a day or more in the last three months?
Are you nauseated or sick to your stomach when you have a headache?
Does light bother you when you have a headache? |
|
and all this time I thought they were hangovers! 
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Tiannia
New Board Hall of Famer
Life does not apologies......
 
Gender:
Posts: 3241
|
|
Re: This hit me as Funny
« Reply #5 on: Oct 31st, 2003, 1:27pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Oct 31st, 2003, 1:03pm, brain_cramps wrote:
and all this time I thought they were hangovers! |
|
'
|
|
IP Logged |
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. - Carl Rogers
|
|
|
Prense
CH.com Alumnus
New Board Hall of Famer
Kerry is an idiot!
Gender:
Posts: 1607
|
|
Re: This hit me as Funny
« Reply #6 on: Oct 31st, 2003, 1:37pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Oct 31st, 2003, 1:03pm, brain_cramps wrote:
and all this time I thought they were hangovers! |
|
Just stay drunk...
|
|
IP Logged |
Where does the white go in a snowman when the snow melts?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Home
Help
Search
Members
Member Map
Login
Register
Reply
Notify of replies
Send Topic
Print
test rss