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BarbaraD
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Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« on: Nov 16th, 2003, 5:51am » |
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Found this on a headache website. Thought is was interesting......
Recent studies indicate that cluster headaches may be occurring more frequently or are being diagnosed more often among women than in the past.2, 3 The reasons for this are unclear. One possible explanation is that as women have moved into social and workplace roles once occupied primarily by men, they may be experiencing more of the stresses associated with these roles.
Now we know WHY women get clusters... If we'd just stayed at home barefoot and pregnant we could have avoided this disease!!!! Think I'll go back to my knitting now....
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #1 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 8:59am » |
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A typical female stunt! The men have something, and the ladies are not happy till THEY have it too!!!
When will they learn?   
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« Reply #2 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 9:04am » |
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Chuck 
You'd be deader if you do what most Doctors do (and my own pet theory why most women don't get diagnosed)
i.e. Tell us it's migraine caused by our hormones!
Grrrrrrrr
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #3 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 9:27am » |
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on Nov 16th, 2003, 5:51am, BarbaraD wrote:| ...Think I'll go back to my knitting now... |
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Lets see now...
Sweater
Socks
Scarf
yep... That should do it. Can I expect them by Christmas?
grant
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #4 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 9:56am » |
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Sure Grant, just as soon as the "stress" of "helping" the men out gets out of my system and I quit having these damn headaches..... I'm going back to "women's" work! 
Now, let's see - what day am I the school monitor? What kid has to be WHERE? Who left dirty socks in a pile in the bathroom? You're bringing WHO home for dinner? What do you mean the Checking account is overdrawn? No, honey the pants are ironed even if the zipper is cold! It's YOUR dog - you take care of him!!!
Aweeeee, I long for those "unstressful" days........ 
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« Reply #5 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 10:03am » |
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Hmmm.
So they're putting the suffering back in 'suffrage'
And they say there's no progress.
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #6 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 10:15am » |
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Come on Barbara, you can whine better than that!
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« Reply #7 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 10:16am » |
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WOMEN DONT GET CLUSTERS!!
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #8 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 11:31am » |
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Chuck -- just remembering WHY I went out in the big world to WORK!!!!
Ok, another theory on this one....  When I was a "non-working" mother, I NEVER got RELIEVED of the stress. Getting out into the "man's" world RELIEVED the stress. It was like a "vacation" compared to being a "stay at home Mom".....
And Jonny, maybe women DON'T get CH -- it's just that we've been out in the Man's World so long we THINK we do. And I voted against women's lib -- burned my bra and no one even noticed!!
Come on girls, jump right in here --- I'm being ganged up on!!!!!!
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #9 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 11:55am » |
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WHY didnt someone tell me women do not get chs before I started taking this topamx Just upped my dose and feel braindead...You guys sure are alot of help here. LOL nancyc
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #10 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 12:13pm » |
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on Nov 16th, 2003, 10:16am, jonny wrote:WOMEN DONT GET CLUSTERS!!
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Damn ! I was gonna say that ! Guess you gotta get up pretty early in the morning around here !
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« Reply #11 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 1:37pm » |
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Bugger this girls!!!
I'm off to go boil my bra!
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #12 on: Nov 16th, 2003, 4:22pm » |
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Well, it's been confirmed. I'm woman, I have no stress, so these things are all .. uh .. in my head..?? I'm going to return the 02 tomorrow and try to come up with a different diagnosis...
Accorging to http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/life_stressor.asp: The Medindia Life stress calculator indicates that you are leading a stress free life.
Yay...happy dance...course, it could be hormones. I've yet to determine that I don't have those.
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
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That's the answer I got...figures ! But then again, I already knew that !
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #14 on: Nov 17th, 2003, 6:37am » |
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Oh, women DO get clusters! 
But I still don't think that stress is the only cause... otherwise there would be loads of more clusterheads than there is. And I would be happily cluster pain-free...
Besides, what about the study made by Peter Goadsby, Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, University College of London?
In the study the Headache group found out that us clusterheads have interesting grey cells in the area of hypothalamus, in the same very spot the cluster pain arrives. And that we have those cells there all the time, with or without ch and non-clusterheads don't...
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #15 on: Nov 17th, 2003, 10:17am » |
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Oh good, women don't get CH! Maybe that will make mine go away! lol
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Re: Women and Clusters -- now a reason!
« Reply #16 on: Nov 17th, 2003, 10:37am » |
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[quote]Now, let's see - what day am I the school monitor? What kid has to be WHERE? Who left dirty socks in a pile in the bathroom? You're bringing WHO home for dinner? What do you mean the Checking account is overdrawn? No, honey the pants are ironed even if the zipper is cold! It's YOUR dog - you take care of him!!!
[quote].... When I was a "non-working" mother, I NEVER got RELIEVED of the stress. Getting out into the "man's" world RELIEVED the stress. It was like a "vacation" compared to being a "stay at home Mom".....
I totally agree there! I worked full time with the first 2 cause I was single  I spent a year part time after the 3rd cause I finally found a good man who said it was my choice  After the fourth- I thought I would try to be a stay at home mom That was funny It lasted about 8 monthes at which point my husband decided it wasn't my choice any more and sent me back to work because I was soooo stressed  that he couldn't stand me being home all the time anymore. I got Clusters wether I was working or not!
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