I got migrane, it's not a pleasant thing to have so I thought that I would check out a doctor about it
I have had this condition for most of my life and I know that it can be induced by stress, insomnia, neck and back problems, (lack of) food and drinks (e.g. coffee) etc. It's something that I know because I have direct experience of it. Some months ago I suffered from many attacks every other day and I had a hunch that it was from the new ergonomic pillow which I had bought expensively. You know, the kind of pillow that should alleviate these kind of things. But I soon discovered that they do nothing of the sort. I woke up several times a night to tinnitus and searing neck pain. But first I thought that it was because I was getting used to it. But no, they stayed and so did my migrane. Desperate, I looked up videos about mattresses and pillows just to discover that there was this one guy that said that you should sleep without a pillow! Wow, could that actually work?!
I tried it first and it wasn't too great, but then I had the idea of just making my pillow very flat (which meant I had to buy another pillow with a filling that I could vary). And alas! It worked quite well. While it's still not perfect, I feel that my sleep has improved tremendously and my migrane got better as well. At times it was so bad that I actually had migrane in my dreams which I never had before and it was how I knew that it was caused by my head being in the wrong position.
So this post was supposed to be about conventional medicine and I am coming back to that because after my situation improved I still felt like checking out a normal doctor to see what the newest insights of medicine were. I didn't expect much as I know that this paradigm is based on materialism and that the only way they know how to treat someone (notice that I don't use the word heal) is with scalpels and molecules (which I guess oversimplifies it a bit). In my case and that of many others this translates into drugs. Lot's of drugs as I was about to find out.
It started with Lamical (5mg). He said that this was a drug generally used for epilepsy, but that it could also improve migrane (the auras, the headache). He warned me that it could cause severe rashes and other skin ailments and that I should immediately stop using it if it occured. I mentioned that I also suffered from nerodermitis which probably wouldn't be a good combination. I do have to say that he just put it out there as an option and didn't strongly recommend it to me. But he was just getting started. Next was Ibuprofen which he said I should take in a higher dosis than the general 400mg available in drug stores. I agreed that it might be a good idea to try a somewhat higher dosis as it really does alleviate the pain (although of course one shouldn't use it too frequently). And finally a drug based on Triptane which he said could work wonders for some patients. Although I mentioned that I had tried it before and it didn't work, he suggested that I should still try it since the drug varied from manufacturer to manufacturer. Well, I guess I could try it, right?
At the pharmacy I was told one of the side effects of triptane was headaches. Ouch. Not really what I wanted. The potential side effects for Lamical weren't necessarily better: it could also lead to depression and suicidal thoguths and flu-like symptoms... In his defence, he did prescribe me a very low dosis and of course he would have told me to stop using it if any of the strong side effects should occur. I suppose it all comes down to considering the pros and cons. This is especially so for pharmaceutical drugs. They pretty much all have side effects and the quesiton is if they are worse than the symptoms that you want to treat.
Which bring sme to my main point: conventional medicine is about treating symptoms. The actual cause is rarely explored. For example, he could have asked me about stress, back or neck problems, sleeping problems, what I eat and drink etc. But no. None of that seemed to be of relevance. It is clear to me that conventional doctors don't look at patients wholistically and explorer with them the potential real causes of their ailments. This would take time and energy which also often means less income (due to less patients). Conventional medicine has become a system. It is integrated with the pharmaceutical industry that has the main goal of selling more drugs which simplifies the work of doctors and they are therefore happy to prescribe them (you are sick? Just swallow this pill!). It is integrated with the insurances that only give money to materialist science and it is integrated with the drug stores that sell that addictive stuff.
Conventional medicine is good for emergencies, when you brake a leg or fall down the stairs. It can also help with more serious diseases when you need an operation. But all of this has nothing to do with the other side: healing. Conventional doctors do not heal. You do it yourself. Your body knows how to heal itself. A more complete picture and a more comprehensive approach to medicine would be therefore to include what is currently lacking. A comprehensive anamnesis, an exploration of a patients history (and of his family) of diseases, methods that are not based on materialism but in science like Osteopathy, Accupuncture, Ecotrophology, Meditation, Physical excercise etc. To get well again is to combine these different systems and more importantly to choose the ones suited for a patient. Our current medical system (in the "West") does not do this. And so it is actually something that we have to do ourselves (except for the few lucky ones that have a doctor that knows about this). If we go to a doctor on either extreme (Homeopathy would also be a bad idea for treating a broken leg, at least initially) we also shouldn't really expect to get well.
What are your experiences with healing and doctors, conventional, traditional etc.?
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