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Vicky8675309

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  1. I'm confused as to why was Eileen the one who told Rinna to talk to Yo about Munchie AFTER Eileen had already told Yo that Rinna had talked about it. Ok, that is convoluted. Why did Eileen tell Yo about Munchie rather than let Rinna tell Yo? Did Rinna know Eileen had already told Yo? If so then was she pissed? If not then was she pissed? I don't understand why Eileen is involved in this situation.
  2. Sorry, I am unfamiliar with that medication. As I am sure you know, the list of side effects are actually potential side effects. Send me a PM if you want me to look it up on UpToDate and I can copy/paste what it says about Latuda in a PM to you
  3. so Harry started the Munchausen speculation (without knowing the official name)? lol ah ha! Yolanda actually started the Munchausens train without realizing the official name;-)
  4. This brilliant comment needs to be immortalized in Yo's thread!
  5. pros when used as directed: excellent efficacy, minimal to no drug to drug interactions, not harmful to liver/kidneys, usually leads to less use of oral medications (eventually you may be able to wean off some daily prevention medications and use less as needed pain killers, if you have any side effects they aren't permanent and wear off, less wrinkles (lol), you just get the injections every 3 months rather than another daily prevention medication, limited potential side effects compared to oral medications for migraine prevention, and more pros... cons: can be painful (not excessively) getting injections since migraineurs are more sensitive to pain (migraine patients can have allodynia where non-painful stimuli is perceived as painful---like headbands can be painful, pain when brushing hair) and the face has more pain receptors than the top of the thigh for example, if the doctor injects the wrong area or uses too much botox then you may have temporary eyelid/brow drop or neck weakness but these potential side effects are rare and usually dependent on the person administering the botox, and then the usual potential side effects that go with any injection (pain, infection, bleeding, bruising) If you read the package insert for almost any drug, including botox, they will list a billion (exaggeration) potential side effects but typically botox has less side effects in most people than the typical oral preventative medications like (amitriptyline/elavil, nortriptyline/pamelor, depakote/valproic acid, topamax/topiramate, propranolol/Inderal, magnesium oxide, butterbur, and riboflavin, etc...) IV depakote is often used to break an intractable migraine (like an as needed pain killer) and oral depakote is taken daily to prevent migraines but I haven't heard of a regimen of scheduled infusions of depakote. Make sure they are periodically checking your liver function while on depakote (and blood cell counts). If you haven't tried the Raskin Protocol of DHE (dihydroergotamine) then you may want to ask your neurologist about it. It is a 3 day admission for IV DHE every 8 hours for 3 days and it kind of works as a reset button (breaks the migraine and keeps you migraine free for a few days while a transition treatment is given to hold you over until the new preventive agent starts to work). For example, a person could get botox then get the Raskin Protocol while waiting for the botox to "kick in". However one has to be able to take medicines that cause blood vessel constriction (i.e., can't have heart problems, etc) if they are to get DHE. Often private practice neurologists don't do Raskin Protocol since many of them just do clinic work and don't do hospital work (so they don't admit patients but sometimes they will have a hospitalist do it....one great thing about academic centers is there are residents and interns to take care of the hospital patients and the attending doc can just come in once a day at a set time to round on the patients...hence Raskin Protocol admission maybe more common at academic centers) Always talk to your neurologist about anything your read about migraines that interests you since they know you and your health. I just jumped in because this is my niche and passion;-) Unlike a lot in neurology, with migraineurs you can really help them (not all) and improving the quality of someones life is so rewarding! The potential problems swallowing/breathing with botox is rare with injections for migraines since the front of the neck is not injected (unlike with torticollis or spasmodic dysphonia....botox for those disorders more commonly affects swallowing). Also distant migration of botox to other muscles causing diffuse weakness/paralysis is very rare with injections for migraines. As with any treatment you have to look at potential benefit vs potential harm and it just seems so clear to me that the potential benefit outweighs potential harm but botox for migraine prevention isn't anything new to me and I can understand being worried/anxious about something new for oneself. oh yeah, sometimes a patient will get a migraine after the injections (if anxiety is a trigger and sometimes it just happens) or the day after...it's ok to take your migraine pain killer (unless your neurologist says otherwise) also go to the Allergan website (drug company) and see if they have any "rewards". I don't know if they still have it but they had something last year where you got like a 100 or 250$ back (to be applied to future purchases or something)...any little bit helps
  6. I don't check this thread much and I know this is a late response. Anyway, Botox is FDA approved for migraine prevention. The injections are into muscles on the forehead, head, back of neck and trapezius (top of shoulders). You may start noticing help in a week or two...maximum benefit around 1.5 months and wears off after about 3 months (however the benefit may indirectly last longer since if you have less migraines then you are using pain killers less which in turn lessens the effect of rebound headaches or analgesic overuse headaches). Basically if you use pain killers more than 2 days a week on average then you are more likely to have more frequent headaches (this only applies to migraineurs). So with Botox you reduce your migraine frequency (ideally, but it also may help the severity and duration) which in turn lessens the amount of pain killers you take so you have less migraine headaches and less "regular headaches" (those daily headaches that you can get in-between the super severe migraines). If the first set of injections don't help, then still consider getting the 2nd set in 3 months. It's very efficacious even in this hard to treat patient population (often they have already failed multiple other preventive medications so they are already refractory patients). There's no magic 2 year time frame for head injuries and for migraines. More likely they have exhausted all other treatments and if this doesn't work then they don't know what else to try Good luck and it sounds like you are getting top notch treatment;-)
  7. Watching John makes me nervous. I keep thinking he is going to have a heart attack. He is morbidly obese, uses viagra, smokes and may use cocaine.
  8. Please don't stop! I love reading your posts and they have useful information. Often something needs to be said or written at least three times before it starts to sink in. I loved your excellent comment about the CDC and "chronic lyme" and I assume that like me, you get frustrated when people still don't get it. It's not an opinion (the info on the CDC and CLD are facts) and so I do think it is useful for educating people (something Yo claimed she wanted to do but hasn't done...in fact she did the opposite which is misinform people). I agree with your post (all of it) and am definitely not sick of reading them. Shoot you? Hell NO, I want to pin a medal on you;-)
  9. She did see credible doctors at Cedar Sinai for her constellation of symptoms. It sounds like they did exhaustive testing (extensive testing but she never said all the tests they did other than an MRI and blood work but she did say it was extensive....she never mentioned a lumbar puncture or anything specific despite them keeping her for 5,7, or 9 [lol] days). This is when she went in for her "swollen brain" (not the same time as when she missed Erika's dinner but back when she "collapsed" [something like that] and the kids had to drive her to the ER [not sure why they didn't call 911]) and she was discharged with a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which prompted her to see a Chronic Fatigue Literate (lol) doctor in Belgium who later said she had Lyme Disease. Interestingly Bella said she (bella) was diagnosed over the phone. edit: I don't think she ever said how she was diagnosed other than maybe a "clinical diagnosis" not supported by tests (well maybe once she had her blood tested at the lyme lab [Genex?] it came back positive). Anyway, credible doctors didn't think she had lyme and I don't know if she has been back to see a reputable/credible doctor since getting sucked in the web of the lyme literate quacks.
  10. nope, completely weary is not as bad as completely bedridden imo [edit: they both would suck equally...probably] nope, completely weary doesn't mean incapacitated I do think that everyone, especially the housewives, should avoid using absolutes when possible. Interesting deflection onto one comment made by Kyle when trying to negate years of Yo's intentional lying (and misinformation). Yo exaggerates and lies so frequently that it seems to be the norm for her. I don't think she is just exaggerating but a combination of lies and exaggerations. Regardless, the context of Kyle's use of debilitated seems to be emotional rather than physical.
  11. weary is a synonym for debilitated immobilized is a synonym for bedridden if you get up to use a bedside commode, you are not bedridden unless someone had to transfer you to and from the bedside commode. If you are able to stand and hobble to the bathroom then you should include qualifiers such as "essentially (meaning almost but not quite) bedridden but I could hobble to the bathroom." debilitated is more subjective whereas bedridden is more objective If Yo stuck with fatigue or exhausted or debilitated then that would have been fine but to claim she is bedridden is different
  12. completely debilitated is not the same as bedridden. it's the same as saying she was completely weary. Whereas bedridden is a very objective or concrete word which means confined to a bed by sickness
  13. We do know Yo has misinformed people. Just read her blogs: http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/season-6/blogs/yolanda-hadid/yolanda-lvp-and-kyle-could-learn-a http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/season-6/blogs/yolanda-hadid/yolanda-hadid-my-circle-got
  14. how do we know that the people transporting the ponies for LVP didn't hobble and/or tranquilize the ponies?
  15. Despite previously having depression, Yolanda still discounts it as a cause of her symptoms. She says she has been depressed at times due to her health but that it is not the cause of her health problems. She minimizes the role of depression but this is the woman with suicidal IDEATIONS and even a PLAN
  16. I think Lydiot will be gone since Chyka and Jackie HATE her. I think they all find PF annoying and draining but she doesn't spread malicious gossip about them. However, despite disliking Lydiot, I do find her much more entertaining than Jackie (I also dislike her) and Chyka (I like her but she isn't that entertaining)
  17. I wonder how Andy/Bravo feel about Rinna who broke the 4th wall by saying "there goes the storyline"? LVP did mention that the cameras where there the whole time but that was after Rinna already broke the 4th wall. Doesn't "breaking the fourth wall" also include when a character addresses the viewer directly such as when one of the killer in Funny Games addresses the viewer or when Francis Underwood in House of Cards turns towards the camera and talks to the viewer/audience?
  18. The swan would be out of the crate before you put it in the crate such as when you are in the driveway in the vehicle with the crate. You pet and calm the swan (while getting filmed) and then place it in the crate. Obviously you remove the swan from the crate in the vet's office which is why we see both the crate and the swan in the vet's office.
  19. I'm not a fan of Erika but I do think she is handling herself very well at this reunion and it's her first reunion. She just doesn't answer what she doesn't want to or she shuts it down promptly.
  20. I didn't see or hear Erika gasp "bitch" this time after Rinna showed the phone records but the promos made it look like it. Was it editing or did I just miss this during my viewing of the reunion?
  21. Kathryn was in OJ's suicide note that was read for everyone so Kathryn saying Faye is the only reason her name is mentioned is bullshit. They all had microphone packs on so if LVP said "there goes our storyline" then they would have audio of it and could easily prove it if that was said (Rinna already broke the 4th wall)
  22. I didn't think it possible, but I now dislike Yolanda even more than before the reunion and I really disliked her prior to the reunion!
  23. The Swann was in a crate during the car trip--I suggest re-watching the scene. The swann is only out of the crate when they first get in the car and later at the vet's office (you can see the crate in the office & in the car). I thought she didn't purchase the horse on the trip and who knows how she would have brought it back if she did purchase it. I seriously doubt she would have stuffed it in that plane, despite them joking about it, and I doubt she would have stuff the horse into her car. Maybe I am wrong
  24. I can't stand Lydiot and PF but they are perfect for this show....it's so fun to laugh at them! Unfortunately I don't think the cast will film with PF & Lydiot anymore (maybe Gina would film with them but that isn't enough)
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