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(Message started by: pubgirl on Jan 30^th, 2005, 7:10pm)

Title: The Prof's description
Post by pubgirl on Jan 30^th, 2005, 7:10pm

Thanks Em for reminding me of this, thought people over here might like to hear it if they haven't before.

This transcript was from a radio interview with Prof Goadsby where he had minimal time to get his message over to people who know nothing about CH.

The answer was prefaced by a question from Mike (a chronic sufferer) about suicide headaches.

GOADSBY
"Yeah sadly I have managed people - cluster patients - who've committed suicide and I've managed a couple who've died for various reasons during the management. It's a terrible disease - imagine that you break both of your legs or imagine that you stick your hand in a fire or imagine that you're giving birth without any anaesthetic or imagine that your head was tied down and someone had a drill out drilling in your teeth and then imagine the cluster headache is worse and pause for a second, and imagine Mike is delivering a baby five times a day - just think about that for a second, it would drive people to distraction. It's a horrible condition, more common in men, usually very severe one sided pain - that lasts for up to a couple of hours - and is associated with some eye watering or redness and blocking of the nose. Now the great thing about cluster headache is - to me - is the patients, that they can put up with this problem and they can work through their lives. Most patients have episodic cluster headache - where it comes and goes and only affects them for a couple of months of the year. We've understood a lot more about the disease in the last five years and I'm pleased to say some of our research has been pivotal in that. The treatments have vastly improved but our understanding has vastly improved and my message to cluster headache sufferers everywhere is to get out and see someone who's interested because there's so much more we can do for you"

W the B

Title: Re: The Prof's description
Post by don on Jan 30^th, 2005, 7:35pm

Another "Bravo Prof Goadsby"

Title: Re: The Prof's description
Post by PrettyH8Machine on Jan 30^th, 2005, 7:39pm

Professor Goadsby is THE MAN!!!

SOMEBODY Who knows what they are talking about on the subject to a T!

CD