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About Headaches has been online for just six
months now, and our forum opened in early October. From the beginning, I was
sure that my fellow headachers (OK, so I invented a word — I'm tired of the word "sufferers")
would get involved, and get involved they have!
For anyone who missed it, I
dubbed the members of this hardy community the AHHHs — About's Headache Help
Hunters. From my email to
submissions for our You're Not Alone!
area to our forum and chat
room, these are the folks who are always there. They're full of questions,
answers, the occasional rant and rave, humor, and always — always — very
generous support for each other. For those of you who have already visited the
forum and our Thursday evening chat, I'm not telling you anything new. Here are
some highlights:
From
You're Not Alone! "I seriously advise people who never had migraines before but only
started to suffer from throbbing headaches to visit a specialist instead of
dismissing the problem. I'm saying this because I suffer from horrible
migraines not long ago after I recovered from a fever. Family doctors couldn't
see the problem & simply gave me Panadol.... it became worse & started
to keep me awake in the night. I couldn't stand it anymore and went to the
hospital for a scan and the neurologist found a growth of pus to the size of a
golf ball on my brain that is pressing on the nerves causing the horrible
pains. I underwent four operations to remove the abscess and is now recovering
well. It was a horrible experience so I hope others that are having throbbing
headaches to take care of themselves."
18yearsgal took time to send a readers submission urgently warning others not to
ignore headaches:
From the About
Headaches Forum
MALICHIA1 found a place to vent where
others would understand.
"I've looked for a discussion board like this and stumbled on it by accident (fate?). My problem right now lies in my dr's opinions. He examined me on Monday, and asked how long I'd had my migraine. I told him since Saturday morning. He then informed me that migraines don't last 3 days!? That's news to me. Then he pressed hard on the side of my head that was hurting on pressure points (or that's what he said anyway) Then told me because that hurt me, it was a migraine that had developed into something to do with the outer tissue of the skull, that I wasn't having a migraine anymore. Funny, it was still hurting on the inside like my migraines always do. How do I go about education this guy? I'm from a small town, these are my only Dr.s unless I want to travel. Thanks for letting me rant :)"
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