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Where Do You Find New Information?
Where do you find out the most information about treatment options and upcoming new treatments on the horizon?
There were several so I put other......of course medhelp, my GP dr is good, other internet research.
Also I found this sight helpful http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1179268-followup
Tracy
Also I found this sight helpful http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1179268-followup
Tracy
remarkably enough, I get the bulk of my new info from my psych, who works in collaboration with my neuro on managing my meds. My psych is really into the latest researches on migraines, as she's been treating me for years, and has other migraineurs as patients.
I put from my GP or migraine doctor...
although, I also subscribe to a couple scientific journals (Science, Nature, etc.) and popular journals/magazines (Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Wired), so I get information from those as well.
If a new drug comes out, the peer-reviewed scientific journals are the first to jump on those stories and talk about new technologies, drugs, and discoveries about the brain, etc... so, I get a lot of realllly new information that way.
I also get a lot of much easier to read information from the popular magazines like Scientific American... like last year there was a big article all about new drugs that were being developed for migraine treatment, both for preventative and acute treatment, that was based on the discovery how cortical spreading depression is linked to migraines.
But, the first time I ever heard about cortical spreading depression was from my family doctor, BEFORE that Scientific American Article came out... so, I still think that I get some of the best "first" information from my doctors.
Like, just the other day, my neurologist mumbled something under his breath about a new class of migraine medication that would be out soon that might really change things for all of us so-far "difficult to treat" patients... because, they finally understand what's going on, like, exactly, and have begun to develop a classes of drugs to target what all those off-label drugs and miracle-by-mistake drugs end up sort of targeting some of the time... so, basically, instead of just off-label uses of other daily medications... or instead of acute medication that amazingly works by mistake even though it was created under a flawed theory about migraines because it happened to do something completely different as well that actually does in fact help migraines... although... all of them not 100% of the time because none of them were developed with the proper purpose in mind... but now!! all these new medications in development, now that they understand exactly what's going on in the brain when a migraine happens... what a migraine physically looks like... where it starts, where it goes... where it ends up... what neurons are involved and how... so that they can treat it... some medications even as far as phase 3 trials, that will be out on market for me to try Eventually.... although at least it will be in my life time!
anyway. so, i think as far as new information... some of the best new information still comes from my GOOD doctors.
although, I also subscribe to a couple scientific journals (Science, Nature, etc.) and popular journals/magazines (Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Wired), so I get information from those as well.
If a new drug comes out, the peer-reviewed scientific journals are the first to jump on those stories and talk about new technologies, drugs, and discoveries about the brain, etc... so, I get a lot of realllly new information that way.
I also get a lot of much easier to read information from the popular magazines like Scientific American... like last year there was a big article all about new drugs that were being developed for migraine treatment, both for preventative and acute treatment, that was based on the discovery how cortical spreading depression is linked to migraines.
But, the first time I ever heard about cortical spreading depression was from my family doctor, BEFORE that Scientific American Article came out... so, I still think that I get some of the best "first" information from my doctors.
Like, just the other day, my neurologist mumbled something under his breath about a new class of migraine medication that would be out soon that might really change things for all of us so-far "difficult to treat" patients... because, they finally understand what's going on, like, exactly, and have begun to develop a classes of drugs to target what all those off-label drugs and miracle-by-mistake drugs end up sort of targeting some of the time... so, basically, instead of just off-label uses of other daily medications... or instead of acute medication that amazingly works by mistake even though it was created under a flawed theory about migraines because it happened to do something completely different as well that actually does in fact help migraines... although... all of them not 100% of the time because none of them were developed with the proper purpose in mind... but now!! all these new medications in development, now that they understand exactly what's going on in the brain when a migraine happens... what a migraine physically looks like... where it starts, where it goes... where it ends up... what neurons are involved and how... so that they can treat it... some medications even as far as phase 3 trials, that will be out on market for me to try Eventually.... although at least it will be in my life time!
anyway. so, i think as far as new information... some of the best new information still comes from my GOOD doctors.
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