And Introduction to living with migraines
I have suffered from chronic migraines ever since I was a young child, occassionally I get the occassional migraine marathon and can be dehabilitated for days or even weeks, but mostly 4 - 5 hours or so in a dark room, away from sound, light sources and heat, really does the job. So today, when I got a splitting one, I decided that I was going to try and fix it, anyway, I possibly could at my disposal. I lay on the bed streaming for ideas, as my head ached the further that I thought, I wondered what would have an influence on my migraine , as much, or better than my medical prescription sumitrupan succinate (also known as immigram in the UK by GSK). There wasn’t much available short of a bunch of PC’s, an air conditioner, and a great deal of electronic equipment that wouldn’t be doing me any favours in a hurry.
The Find of a Migraine!
So, I lay there for a while thinking what could have an affect on the blood in the brain (much like immigram works)… So… I look accross the room at a pc speaker, and think. nawwwwwww. That wouldn’t work. A regular PC speaker, with a fairly strong magnet which would all in all stick fast to the side of a fridge, so not the worlds most strongest, but certainly as strong as or stronger than those crappy little armbands that i’ll never touch. So I proceeded to disconnect the wires from my newly found prize so that I was left with the speaker and the magnet only (all in once peice but the wire). And placed it directly on my head, it was very cold, and that did help of course.. but not a lot. When it began to get warm, I picked it up with my left hand and helf it in my hand by the rim of the speaker, with the magnet facing away, after only 20 or 30 seconds my arm began to become weak, and I thought , gee this is strange I’m not meant to believe in all that crap, im a technician. So as a control, I placed the speaker down , rested my arm and then proceeded to put it back exactly how it was when it began to sorta hurt (like all the muscles were twitching). Nothing.. to my surprise I put the speaker back in my left hand in the same configuration, within a few seconds it began to hurt, and I was pretty surprised by this. The way my headache feels is sortof “clockwise”, if your a migraine sufferer you might know what I mean, the pain sorta shoots around in a circle and works its way across the left of my head an arc over my forehead and down into my eye (sortof a spiral). I found that waving this fair magnet over my left head where my head hurt really didnt help so good when moving it clockwise, so I tried anti-clockwise..
figure 1.1 what could the magnet have done to this?
This might sound a bit strange, but this was of course purely on instinct, and , it seemed to work, very well infact that my migraine went within about 25 minutes, as fast or faster than medically effective drugs that I have been prescribed to take for this. Before I wrote this article I had a little search on digg , google, reddit and the usual, it seems like a few people have already discovered this amazing little idea/evidence/scienceifyouwill , and I feel suitably validated, and extremely relieved to be able to write this article saying
This could be a Placebo, but it worked for me, and seems documented elsewhere, time for me to make a migraine buster prototype, ahhhh another great project!
Read into this little gem as much as you like, but if you suffer from migraines, and don’t mind putting a pc speaker to your head and looking like a moron, then thats your doosy to migraine mishap medical magica because it certainly worked, and I think, will work again!
