Paralysis and hemiplegic migraineWritten by James Cottrill
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There are other challenges when it comes to hemiplegic migraine. First, number of severe symptoms that need to be treated all at once, including weakness or paralysis. Second, connections with stroke mean that most common migraine-targeting medications (triptans and egotamines) are not recommended. There is good news! For one thing, new genetic research is helping us to diagnose this type of migraine more easily. Also, there are many other migraine treatments and medications that can be used, and that have been used successfully. The important thing, however, is to seek expert help as soon as possible. If you're already aware of a migraine connection, find a headache and migraine specialist if at all possible. If you're not sure, make sure you see a doctor so that she can rule out other severe problems, such as stroke. If you seek help right away, you can avoid serious problems. There is help available, as we understand more and more about migraine, paralysis and other types of headache.
James Cottrill, himself a migraineur, lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains with his wife and two children. He is a health writer at www.relieve-migraine-headache.com. He's written more about headache and hemiplegic migraine at www.relieve-migraine-headache.com/headache-hemiplegic-migraine.html
| | Chemotherapy Drugs: Little known side effect YOU need to know about!Written by James Arond-Thomas, MD
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What Cancer Patients Need to DO is Reduce Expression of Inflammation-Related Genes Once you know your specific genomic blueprint for excessive inflammation, we work together to develop tools you need to re-set expression of your inflammation blueprint. These tools must be unique to you, precisely because your genomic expression capabilities are unique to you. These tools include anti-inflammatory diets supported by oral and intravenous nutrients that block and down-regulate NF-kB. Remember, it is this protein that is responsible for abnormal rise in IL-8 during Paclitaxel administration. By measuring markers of cellular inflammation before, during, and after chemotherapy treatment, and using your unique tools, we compile a personalized treatment record of inflammatory responses (normal and abnormal) that serves as a benchmark for your risk of cancer recurrence after chemotherapy treatment. With these personalized guidelines, you will have insider knowledge about choices of foods, behaviors, and interpersonal relationships that will be conducive to keeping your inflammation-related genes quiet. Patients with high inflammatory markers during chemotherapy are at higher risk for recurrence, and thus need to more closely monitor and modulate their NF-kB expression after chemotherapy ends. What is important to understand is that: - There is an optimal amount of expression of NF-kB consistent with health; - Excessive expression contributes to diseases like cancer recurrence, especially when NF-kB is turned on continuously; and - You will have power and tools needed to regulate NF-kB’s expression. Become Captain of Your Healing Team! As your physician-coach, I recommend that you become captain of your healing team, and let me and my team partner with you to clarify specific molecular mechanisms driving your specific cancer. We coach you to learn skills and to master tools needed to reduce collective contribution of foods, emotions, and behaviors to excessive expression of inflammation-related genes. By working together, you learn to modulate your inflammation blueprint by modulating expressive capacity of NF-kB. Modulating your expression of NF-kB is inner game of self-discovery, consciousness expansion, forgiveness, and cell (self) renewal that is what allows healing to occur. (To view diagrams describing NF-kB in health and in disease, visit our website at http://www.arond-thomasonline.com!) Learn More about How You Can Improve Your Chances of Not Having a Cancer Recurrence… You or a loved one can learn more about how you can improve effectiveness of your cancer treatments and improve your chances of not having a recurrence. at http://www.1CancerCoach.com.
James Arond-Thomas, MD, is Director of The Center for Learning about Healing in Ann Arbor and West Bloomfield, MI. Dr. Arond-Thomas partners with people with cancers and other serious illnesses to construct a "whole person" roadmap leading to health and well-being. To find out more about Dr. James' ground-breaking research and clinical experience, email to DrJames@1CancerCoach.com, or call at 734-995-4999.
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