Comments on: Express Migraine to Congress! http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/ mindbloggering about life & migraine Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Betsy http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-693 Betsy Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:39:54 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-693 Hi, Randy! Thanks so much for your thoughtful and meaningful comment. I'm sorry for your longtime migraines (sounds like me) and extremely sorry that you can no longer get the injections that worked for you. I agree that in this great country of ours, which can do anything it decides to do, we can't all get the health care we need. I hope one of your Congress members sees your comment or that you have an opportunity to send it to them, too! Hi, Randy! Thanks so much for your thoughtful and meaningful comment.

I’m sorry for your longtime migraines (sounds like me) and extremely sorry that you can no longer get the injections that worked for you. I agree that in this great country of ours, which can do anything it decides to do, we can’t all get the health care we need.

I hope one of your Congress members sees your comment or that you have an opportunity to send it to them, too!

]]> By: Randy http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-686 Randy Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:18 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-686 I'm 53 and I've been having migraines as long as I can remember. The past couple of years I had been getting anasthetic trigger point (neck) and nerve block (head)injections that my health insurance was paying for. Well, wouldn't you have it that all of a sudden they decided that they were no longer going to pay for the shots. Something about them being to close together to be diagnostic. Well, they aren't diagnostic, they are theraputic! On my next visit to the headache center I go to in Philly I was shown a folder about 3/4" thick with letters that the doctor has written to the insurance company to get them to change their mind. It's not only me they have done this to, they are doing this to many of their patients. There is only one reason they are doing this, COST! Let the patient suffer and hope they give up trying to get their treatment and just take more drugs that they have to fight to get. I absolutely hate the amount of drugs I need to take just in hopes that I can get through a single day w/o a headache or a migraine. My food trigger is onions, which I didn't know until a few years ago. That would explain many of the migraines I had as a kid. Now I have bad osteoarthritis in my neck along with several herniated and bulging discs. So, I take lots of muscle relaxers now that I can't get my shots. Boy they sure helped. I hope that all the work from the people at Jefferson and the letter I am writing will convince them to let me get them again. I really dislike waking up in so much pain. It makes me very angry at our "insurance for profit" system. Everyone in this country seems scared to death of the words "socialized medicine". It may be a bit slower, but everyone gets what they need at a reasonable cost. No, doctors don't get rich, but insurance companies aren't paying them much for what they do anymore anyway. They have to keep up their profits after all so they can pay their CEO's millions of dollars. No, we don't need health care reform in the USA. I’m 53 and I’ve been having migraines as long as I can remember. The past couple of years I had been getting anasthetic trigger point (neck) and nerve block (head)injections that my health insurance was paying for. Well, wouldn’t you have it that all of a sudden they decided that they were no longer going to pay for the shots. Something about them being to close together to be diagnostic. Well, they aren’t diagnostic, they are theraputic!

On my next visit to the headache center I go to in Philly I was shown a folder about 3/4″ thick with letters that the doctor has written to the insurance company to get them to change their mind. It’s not only me they have done this to, they are doing this to many of their patients. There is only one reason they are doing this, COST! Let the patient suffer and hope they give up trying to get their treatment and just take more drugs that they have to fight to get.

I absolutely hate the amount of drugs I need to take just in hopes that I can get through a single day w/o a headache or a migraine.

My food trigger is onions, which I didn’t know until a few years ago. That would explain many of the migraines I had as a kid. Now I have bad osteoarthritis in my neck along with several herniated and bulging discs. So, I take lots of muscle relaxers now that I can’t get my shots. Boy they sure helped. I hope that all the work from the people at Jefferson and the letter I am writing will convince them to let me get them again. I really dislike waking up in so much pain.

It makes me very angry at our “insurance for profit” system. Everyone in this country seems scared to death of the words “socialized medicine”. It may be a bit slower, but everyone gets what they need at a reasonable cost. No, doctors don’t get rich, but insurance companies aren’t paying them much for what they do anymore anyway. They have to keep up their profits after all so they can pay their CEO’s millions of dollars. No, we don’t need health care reform in the USA.

]]> By: Betsy http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Betsy Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:47:17 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-674 Thank you, Sandy! I can't tell you what a pleasure it will be to send these first five books off this week! All my best, Betsy Thank you, Sandy! I can’t tell you what a pleasure it will be to send these first five books off this week!
All my best,
Betsy

]]> By: Sandy Poffenberger http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-673 Sandy Poffenberger Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:13:30 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-673 Hi, I have just sent a copy of Migraine Expressions to my senator, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland. Thank you for the wonderful idea! Sandy Hi, I have just sent a copy of Migraine Expressions to my senator, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland.

Thank you for the wonderful idea!
Sandy

]]> By: Betsy http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-669 Betsy Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:55:41 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-669 Thanks so much, MJ. I will send your book with pleasure! Thanks so much, MJ. I will send your book with pleasure!

]]> By: Betsy http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-668 Betsy Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:54:55 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-668 Thanks for writing, Marie, and WOW - 49 years! I am sorry to hear it, but I honor you. I hope you will go to the list of senators and representatives and write to yours! I hope for those who come after us, there will be a cure for migraine! Thanks for writing, Marie, and WOW – 49 years! I am sorry to hear it, but I honor you. I hope you will go to the list of senators and representatives and write to yours!

I hope for those who come after us, there will be a cure for migraine!

]]> By: Betsy http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Betsy Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:51:26 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-667 Thanks, Megan! I hope we can get books to every senator and representative! Thanks, Megan! I hope we can get books to every senator and representative!

]]> By: MaxJerz http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-666 MaxJerz Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:45:43 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-666 What an awesome idea! I will be publicizing this, and I just placed an order to be sent to one of my Senators. Thanks for advocating on behalf of all of us! Be well, MJ What an awesome idea! I will be publicizing this, and I just placed an order to be sent to one of my Senators.

Thanks for advocating on behalf of all of us!

Be well,
MJ

]]> By: Mrs. Marie W. Guthrie http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Mrs. Marie W. Guthrie Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:24:44 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-660 I am a 73 yr.old woman who has suffered with dehabilitating migraines for 49 yrs. I know there are thousands that are also suffering with little or nothing to provide relief.I would like to ask the Congress to do all they can to provide education and research to put an end to the unnecessary pain and suffering for us. The laws have tightened up on the availibility of pain medication which helps so many sufferers. I am a 73 yr.old woman who has suffered with dehabilitating migraines for 49 yrs. I know there are thousands that are also suffering with little or nothing to provide
relief.I would like to ask the Congress to do all they can to provide education and research to put an end to the unnecessary pain and suffering for us. The laws have tightened up on the availibility of pain medication which helps so many sufferers.

]]> By: Megan Oltman http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/2009/10/07/express-migraine-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Megan Oltman Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:02:10 +0000 http://wordmetropress.com/migrainejourney/?p=325#comment-659 Betsy what a great idea! I am going to link to this on my blog. - Megan Betsy what a great idea! I am going to link to this on my blog.
- Megan

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