Got Migraines? Dunk PTSD In It
A study from Drexel University doctors have come out claiming that those with PSTD (more commonly known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — once known as “shell shock”) most likely get migraines. This is not really a surprise for migraineurs. After all, going through a migraine is a pretty traumatic experience in an of itself. Like most current medical studies, this one was done in respose to an earlier study.
What Is PTSD?
It needs to get back to being called “shell shock”, that’s what it means (as George Carlin pointed out years ago). Ever see a Mack truck come at you and just miss sending you to The Wild Blue Yonder? The response you feel after that is shell shock, or PTSD. There is some talk that shell shock is only what immediately happens after the scary event and PSTD are the long-term effects. For some of us, that’s pretty much the same thing. There’s probably a lot of doctors who’ll disagree with me and feel free to do so. I’m not a doctor. But I have been diagnosed as having major depression, migraines and PTSD.
After living my life, you’d have shell shock, too, as opposed to PTSD.
The practical upshot is that with both migraines and PSTD, legal acess to powerful prescription drugs is involved. Unlike many people with migraines, though, PSTD can lessen it’s grip on you over time, while the migraines tend to hang around.
To qualify migraineurs for this study as having PTSD, they had to have at least one traumatic event happen to them. This could include surviving a natural disater, seeing a friend get killed, or being forced to listen to Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” for the millionth time. People with chronic migraines had higher percentages of having shell shock or PTSD than people who only get migraines once in a while (called episodic migraines. Oh, how I wish to merely have episodic migraines. Oh, God, if You could do anything, just boot me from the chronic migraine list to the episodic migraine list.)
The study also notes that people with clinical or major depression are also more prone to getting chronic migraines.
Ooo, don’t you just wish you were me? Like me, you could have a happy Trinity living in your head — major depression, chronic migraines and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I’m not entirely sure that announcing the findings of this study was such a wise idea. We migraineurs are already depressed. Don’t give us even more misery to look forward to.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I’m not entirely sure that announcing the findings of this study was such a wise idea. We migraineurs are already depressed. Don’t give us even more misery to look forward to.
Isn’t that the truth?! We already know we’re screwed, thankyouverymuch!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:36 am
And the choir says amen!
May 19th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
LOL
OK,
I have migraines, I’m always depressed.. (Not diagnosed.. my Doctor felt since I’m too smart to kill myself, or my kid, I couldn’t REALLY be depressed… LOL) and I was almost killed in a motorcycle accident when I was in my sophmore year of HighSchool… (I have hysterical amnesia.. so don’t ask me anything between 2 blocks before, and the ambulance ride after)
OK!!
Bring on the drugs!!!!
LOL
Oh.. hmm… I never heard “SexyBack”… I guess I’m not qualified after all.
September 7th, 2009 at 3:33 am
Never checked with a doc about this exactly but just my expierence. I served in iraq a few years ago and still in to this day, in my blood I guess, anyways, I started having bad migraines and went to the hospital, they called it tension migraines….ok… Well then they talked to me about ptsd. I’ve never been diagnosed with it cause I always make up some story trying to avoid all that crap. But it got me thinking, do I have ptsd or what. I don’t know, I guess what I’m sayin is more of a suggestion. If this is happening to you or someone you know, just get it checked out. Could be ya got ptsd and maybe ya can catch the problem early before it goes nuts ya know. The hospital says its ptsd but I don’t know.