Yep, I am serious: migraineurs are forced to quit drugs in secret because of prescription-paid doctors!
I run a large Facebook group with migraineurs. My group has a goal: become migraine free without adding any new drugs and if possible, reduce those a migraineur takes. We use the Stanton Migraine ProtocolTM which is a non-medicinal but scientific understanding of what migraine is, why it causes pain, and how to prevent or abort it without any medicines, without any herbs and without any supplements. Just by understanding what is causing it, prevention and treatment is completely possible. The explanation–though not the protocol–is available in paperback or e-book from many sellers (I used the links to Amazon).
In the Facebook group, once members start the protocol they see results very quick–some are able to abort their migraines immediately but those on many medications often cannot for some time. Many medications prescribed to migraineurs interfere with hydration of the cells. A very large number of these medicines block the functions of the voltage gated sodium pumps that would allow the cells to open their doors for nutrition while others block the high voltage gated calcium channels, which would permit the neurotransmitters to be released by the neurons. Both sodium and calcium blockers are systemic, meaning they block the functions of cells all through the CNS and sometimes even the heart and other vital organs.
In spite of that, many migraineurs are able to overcome their pain by at first increasing some parts of the protocol to override the block of the medicines. Once they are pain free, they would like to stop their medications! There is a long list of medications I am collecting that will be written up under the title “Medicines of Shame” in later blog posts. But the worst part of it is that often times these medicines are extremely addictive–or let me be politically correct: “discontinuation syndrome” is the proper name now and not addiction.
This means that reduction can take a very long time–sometimes over a year–of a single medication! Reducing a medication this slow requires the doctors’ cooperation since they have to refill the prescriptions at decreasing doses as the patient feels at comfort with the reduction speed and NOT at the speed the doctors usually prescribe. I now understand why that is. Since many doctors have a vested interest in their patients continuing to take these medications, the last thing on their mind is to let them reduce it comfortably! No way! Let’s make them so miserable in the reduction that they will come right back on and take it again!
So now patients check first for the name of their doctors in the open database that lists (supposedly) doctors who take payments (interestingly some doctors’ names do not appear even as doctors; no idea why). Those who take no payments simply show as $0 accepted.
However there are many doctors who take tens of thousands of dollars each year for prescribing medicines. For them to have a patient quit medicines is money lost!
Conflict of financial and medical oath interest!
Hence if migraineurs find their doctors in the database, they need to hide that they are reducing and quitting else they get dumped and go through living hell and then back on the drugs again! Unfortunately this happens quite often. Often enough to prompt me to create this blog to call attention to doctors of shame who chose money of their own financial wealth over the welfare of their patients!
Shame on you!
Opinions and comments are welcome! Please share this blog so those doctors to whom this is relevant get their faces burning and feel like hiding!
Angela
Clueless Doctors & Scientists 
In the natural world, humans are not suppose to live in long-term pain. If you do have long-term pain, it must be assumed to be a function of store stress, strain and tatters which reside in muscles. Muscles are the only organ that can store these stresses and scars which must be removed and maintained by the owners — us.
The best treatments and Therapy for muscle pain are curative, simple and non toxic. Therapy can be viewed on a spectrum and within a recipe:
The Holistic Healing Recipe-Self Care: In many advanced ancient cultures wellness and proactive care was a standard concept. Keeping balanced, harmonized, tending to the subtle requests of your body’s needs early on in the course of everyday pain. Daily self-care with a wholesome diet, herbs, extra vitamins and Magnesium supplements, exercise, stretching, yoga, heating with pads, hot tubs, hot springs, mineral springs, Epsom soaking, massage, kneading, rolling, scraping, acupoint or acupressure treatments, strain-counterstrain, unwinding, chiropractic spinal adjustments, traction and most importantly sleep hygiene.
Don’t be misinformed, if the above therapy is not full forced and focused or the pain does not go away. This means the disease has grown deeper or denser in the muscle bundles. Once these muscle tissues become severely corrupted they will need the benefits of atraumatic “pinhole” minimal-invasive surgery. NEEDLES will be absolutely required. The use of stainless steel needling to stimulate the sick muscles. This part of the therapy can also be viewed on a spectrum from simple Acupuncture, modern or myofascial acupuncture, dry needling and GunnIMS. Then onto traumatic but still pinhole minimal wet needling with hypodermic needles, Travell’s TrP injections and various other Bio/Prolo/Neural hypodermic injections.
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That sounds beautiful Stephen but so totally wrong! Here are some articles for you to read to get the real scientific understanding:
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2. A multicenter pilot study of subcallosal cingulate area deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression. Lozano, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.S.C., et al., J Neurosurg 116:315–322, 2012
3. The Brain Reward Circuitry in Mood Disorders. Scott J. Russo and Eric J. Nestler. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2013 September ; 14(9)
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21. Stanton, Angela A. Fighting The Migraine Epidemic: How To Treat and Prevent Migraines Without Medicines – An Insider’s View. Los Angeles: Authorhouse, 2014.
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24. Vecchia, Dania, et al. “Abnormal cortical synaptic transmission in CaV2.1 knockin mice with the S218L missense mutation which causes a severe familial hemiplegic migraine syndrome in humans.” Front. Cell. Neurosci. (2015): epub ahead of print.
25. Wei, Yina, Ghanim Ullah and Steven J Schiff. “Unification of Neuronal Spikes, Seizures, and Spreading Depression.” The Journal of Neuroscience (2014): 11733-11743.
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Dear Angela, a friend of mine will get your article immediately, she has this Problem for years and did not find help, only many pills………… Thank you so much, Dagmar Helbig
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Wonderful Dagmar! Glad to have written this article. Hope it will open some eyes! ❤
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