I think the inexpensive treatments are abused by many different actors because they carry little or no cost to develop, thus there is reason a to be sceptical.
For example you can find a lot of supplements that claim to cure various cancers and many have been proven to have no effect. People even claim that objects or they by themselves cure diseases.
If not much money or effort has been put into a 'treatment' you have reasons to sceptical, don't you think? It's like working in the financial services and someone is trying to sell you a $10 e-book that will make you rich in 1 year. It could do the trick but I bet you would be sceptical.
Testing/clinical trials usually cost a lot and even if the treatment it's not great, at least you have some hard data that you can rely on.
I had a similar success with taking magnesium to control restless leg syndrome. As some people no doubt remember there are a few speciality drugs ( which you see TV commercials about) that are designed to treat RLS, but I have found that regular magnesium supplementation works very well. I have even done a few inadvertent 'tests' by forgetting to take it with me when I travel that has reinforced the role it has in helping my RLS.
Yep. I noticed that concurrently with regularly taking magnesium (for other reasons) my semi-regular (5/year?) effectively vanished. Not sure it’s causal but I don’t care — they’re gone.
What was the process by which you found your self-treatment regimen? I've heard of magnesium's role with muscle clenching, what do the other things do?
Had a LOT of muscle aches. Took it for a few weeks. Aches went away. Mostly stopped taking it.repeat every few months.
Later on I started hearing from many sources to try it for migraines.
Realized my migraines had been ebbing and worsening a lot.
Got serous about taking it. About A 50% reduction In severity. Had multi hour ones 7 days a week. Can’t walk kind.
Dentist suggested a mouth guard for TMJ.
I looked up videos on it. Found a massage one, found a bad trigger point. 3 days later it eased up. Poof migraines almost completely gone.
I tried basically everything.
Elimination diet to find troublesome foods, etc.
Prism glasses, etc
The thing is, this is very personal. No one knows you better than yourself.
I wish people were allowed to just experiment with different solutions. Sign a paper saying that you take full responsibility and they're not obligated to treat you and that's it.
Some people live in areas that good doctors left a long time ago.
I'm not sure what value you think your point has, especially as the OP wasn't attempting to detail their entire medical history.
Yes it could just disappear, but for some migraines are a chronic issue and the meds for it are preventative and not a cure.
I'm not sure if you've dealt with chronic illnesses but I can tell you from experience that a lot of us regularly attempt to come off our meds to see if anything has changed 'underneath' the drugs, as often the drugs have other side effects that make it hard to tell what's really going on.
It's highly likely then that the OP has indeed tested to see whether their migraines have just gone.
It's also odd when people defiantly state that we don't make medical decisions based on anecdotes when clearly all medical decisions were once anecdotes that were then tested for efficacy and became best practice.
The most clear recent example of medicine catching up with annecdoatal evodence for me is severe epileptic using diet manipulation to manage their condition when prescription medicine did little to nothing as a preventative.
I'm certainly not arguing against trying different treatments and self-experimentation. If had a chronic illness I'd do the same.
I'm arguing against the experience of anyone person being applicable to anyone other than that one person. That why we have the FDA and randomized controlled trials. There are so many confounding factors that unless you test a treatment under very strict conditions, there is a very good chance you observed is completely unrelated to the treatment. Hell, drug manufacturers run trials and fall into that trap all the time.
You can search my comment history under both this handle and Mz. It goes back more than 11 years.
I've spent nearly 20 years getting better when that's supposed to be impossible. I've done so while dirt poor and even homeless for several years. What I've spent to get better is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions my condition is supposed to cost under conventional treatment while merely slowing your slow, gruesome, torturous death.
No one's interested and I've been thrown off of various forums over the years and been openly hated on and called a liar, teller of tall tales and insane.
No wants it because no one will get rich off of it. No one wants it because I'm a former homemaker, not a physician or scientist. And no doubt several other reasons, none of which I can really fathom.
The world basically agrees with you, turns a blind eye to any and all evidence to the contrary and actively tries to silence people like me.
If not much money or effort has been put into a 'treatment' you have reasons to sceptical, don't you think? It's like working in the financial services and someone is trying to sell you a $10 e-book that will make you rich in 1 year. It could do the trick but I bet you would be sceptical.
Testing/clinical trials usually cost a lot and even if the treatment it's not great, at least you have some hard data that you can rely on.