I woke this morning at 4am with a massive #migraine already in progress. Easily an 8 on the (relatively useless) pain scale. If this one had an aura, I slept through it. Ugh.
Got up and took some Tylenol. The pain has moved from acute severe to chronic annoying. Yes, Tylenol. Can't take NSAIDs due to #CKD. No Rx meds for the migraines as they don't occur often enough to meet the criteria. 🤷♀️
Blood letting and cupping most effective for migraines
Initial findings indicate that acupuncture-related therapy exhibits superior effectiveness in the treatment of migraine and clinical decision-making should be patient-specific.
https://www.acupuncturetimes.com/blood-letting-and-cupping-most-effective-for-migraines/
#migraine #acupuncture
Lovely afternoon. TMI.
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First there was extreme vertigo, accompanied by excessive sweating.
Less than a minute later the projectile vomiting began. That continued for 30 to 45 minutes. That settled down about an hour ago. haven't tried to even take a sip of water since it finally stopped. I'm afraid it'll start up again if I do.
Such a fun time. Now the migraine is beginning to manifest.
The past decade have witnessed the rapid development of acupuncture research about migraine, and many high-quality papers have been published, especially after 2016 (He et al., 2022).
Acupuncture research has grown markedly in the past two decades, with a 2-fold higher growth rate than for biomedical research overall. Both the increases in the proportion of RCTs and the impact factor of journals support that the quality of published research has improved (Ma et al., 2016).
https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/forum/
#acupuncture #evidence #eba #evidencebasedacupuncture #migraine #research
