HH Satsvarupa Goswami's Migraine Problem

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Somehow it seems that migraine was never taken seriously by medical science and even today 2008 all those medicines, like Zomig, Blocadren, Depakote, although quite expensive, don't treat, according leading medical doctors, the actual cause but supress the symptom. Meanwhile doctors even prescribe antidepressants in big scale. In other words all those medicines just block the awareness of pain but don't treat the actual causation. HH Satsvarupa das Goswami is no singular case. "I was exhausted from the constant migraine pain and reaction to the doctor’s supervised medical regimen. This low point also manifested in several ways including reduced japa.Somehow, in the hours in between pain, I managed to write, including letters." Today one can say that migraine reached epidemic dimensions of millions of persons concerned.

 

 

Migraineurs required 3.8 bed rest days for male and 5.6 days for female patients each year, resulting in a total of 112 million bedridden days. Migraine costs American employers about $13 billion a year and close to $8 billion was directly due to absenteeism. Patients aged 30 to 49 in both sexes incurred higher indirect costs compared to younger or older employed patients. Annual direct medical costs for migraine care were about 1 billion dollars and about $100 were spent per each diagnosed patient.

 

 

Physician office visit accounted for about 60% of all costs in contrast to ER visits, which contributed less than 1% of the direct costs. CONCLUSIONS: The overall cost of migraine to society is quite large, and comparable to that reported for diabetes and higher than reported for asthma. The economic burden of migraine predominantly falls to patients and their employers in the form of lost productivity and bedridden days.

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102234506.html

 

Migraine is nothing but a headache, a signalling system that there are doshas, pitta, vatta, kapha not in balance. Not enough fire element in the digestive tract, air circulation blocked, etc etc.

Since western medical doctors are still in darkness how to actually treat this disease, it seems that their collegues from the ayurvedic department in South India are in the same way in darkness how to solve this problem.