Posted by floatingbridge on January 18, 2010, at 16:15:38
In reply to Re: so anxious about Stanford, posted by inanimate peanut on January 17, 2010, at 18:35:41
> If they're the best in the nation and they can't make me better, I just can't get better. That's why I'm truly scared. This is like a last ditch effort.
Yes, I know the feeling. I almost backed out of my appt. A good friend told me I would regret not going, and she's right. Stanford, she told me, is very cutting edge and open to newer ideas and therapies. She also said a mutual friend went to their migraine clinic--she had intolerable, intractable episodes of month length duration. They didn't cure her; however she has only about one migraine a year of shorter duration. She learned to stop migraines before they happened. BP is not curable; but what if you really did feel better, with increasing lengths of time between episodes--and the episodes diminished in duration?
You can get a good life back. I know you will. And I completely empathize with the terror.
Courage--and I know you have that!
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