It confounds me that every other industrialized nation in the world (and many non-industrialized nations) figured out long ago that for profit healthcare is barbaric. Yet, we Americans think we are sooooo awesome that we can profit off of illness. “Everyone else does it differently, but American exceptionalism means… Read more
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that their neighbors kind of hate them, including one legendary rich lady who stood in her front yard in a fur coat, drinking wine and watching protesters dancing and “twerking on top of an SUV”
Migraine is a family curse with me. Me, my mom, my aunts, my cousins, basically anyone with an extra X chromosome gets both migraine and cluster headaches.
In the past I’ve come home to my mother actually banging her head on the wall the pain was so bad. I found a younger cousin screaming under the stairs because she… Read more
I can speak truth to the fact that good health insurance helps manage migraines. When I had a particularly bad one, my doctor started trying me out on different abortives until we found one that worked (orally dissolving Maxalt) and then went to work on finding a preventative (Topomax did the job). But I was extremely… Read more
I started getting them around 11, which, same as you, was when I got my period. I had heard pregnancy can make migraines better, but I haven’t been so lucky. I’m at 10 weeks, and I’ve had a migraine almost every day, ranging from “barely functional” to “curl up in a ball and die.” I’ve dropped ten pounds and it’s down… Read more
Libby, I am 59 years old—I got my first migraine when I was 12, which, coincidentally, was when I got my period for the first time. In the 70s and 80s, the only drug that I remember getting was Fioricet, which was a barbituate mixed with acetaminophen and caffeine. Once you took it, you couldn’t drive. Read more
Looking forward to Splinter News’ imminent correction: http://gawker.com/a-blog-post-by-me-ashley-feinberg-1783973589 Read more
We had a child in the ER today crying because - in his words - he doesn’t have medicaid and his mom can’t afford for him to be sick. Read more
actually it’s spelled “Barron” Read more