[HN Gopher] Why Hasn't Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches?
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       Why Hasn't Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches?
        
       Author : fortran77
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-08-13 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com)
        
       | theLegionWithin wrote:
       | the Aspirin lobby won't allow that (presumably, article is
       | paywalled, so who knows)
        
       | cluckindan wrote:
       | Because psilocybin cannot be patented.
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       | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/...
        
       | kelseyfrog wrote:
       | I don't get it. The prevalence of headaches must mean some
       | doctors also get headaches. How do they reconcile their symptoms
       | with their practice?
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       | Same goes for women's health. Surely some typically painful
       | routine procedures are experienced by the very doctors that
       | perform them. Again, how do they reconcile their experience with
       | how they practice?
        
         | viraptor wrote:
         | > How do they reconcile their symptoms with their practice?
         | 
         | What do you mean by that?
        
       | viraptor wrote:
       | https://archive.is/20250813193253/https://www.newyorker.com/...
        
       | ElijahLynn wrote:
       | Pain Brain Film covers the new pain reprocessing therapy which
       | might be linked to untreatable headaches.
        
       | elliotto wrote:
       | The author is a New yorker columnist, and seems to be a
       | practicing / ex-practicing doctor. They talk about their
       | experience with their various doctors and being passed around
       | different medications with various side effects, to some degree
       | of success. Despite all their expertise and expense, they still
       | cannot find a root cause (which may not exist at all), and
       | struggle to find a medication protocol that works for them.
       | 
       | If you really want a bad trip, head over to the r/migraine and
       | r/chronicpain subreddits. These subreddits are full of people,
       | with none of the resources or experiences as the author, betrayed
       | entirely by the medical system which does not serve them, and
       | condemned to chronic pain. The complexity and range of headache
       | and migraine causes does not lend itself well to a 15 minute GP
       | appointment every few months, and without the technical expertise
       | these people turn to alternative medicine, online pseudoscience,
       | and opiates.
        
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