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LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches'
sciencehabit writes "Patients suffering from the agony of cluster headaches will take anything to dull the pain, even LSD, it turns out. Results from a pilot study reveal that six patients treated with 2-bromo-LSD, a nonhallucinogenic analog of LSD, showed a significant reduction in cluster headaches per day; some were free of the attacks for weeks or months. And some of these patients are still reporting significant relief more than a year after they were treated with the compound." I'm told, by people with reason to know, that the hallucinogenic variety has the same effect on cluster headaches.
Yes, I can tell you from personal experience that LSD does indeed (at least for me) help knock back "cluster" headaches. The only real problem for me was the ensuing giant insects.
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Dr prescribed phrenilin (butalbital + acetaminophen) for mine.
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Yep. LSD is synthesized and is structurally similar to Ergotamine, which is a treatment for migranes. Hoffman was studying derivatives from ergotamine, one can safely presume he was trying to work out what about ergotamines structure causes the migrane relief, either to create a better drug, or to avoid some of the nastier side effects of ergotamine which unfortunately can be pretty savage.
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> The episode in question in s03e23, titled "The Jerk".
Shouldn't EVERY episode of House be titled "The Jerk"? Or was this referring to someone besides House?
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"Sauer." It is German for "acid." LSD is a German acronym.
There's nothing like 3 years of high school German and 5 years of taking LSD to round out an education.
This story begs for a rewite... could we at least have a hyperlink for science habit? Anybody check his user number? Timothy claims he has unknown sources... or hiding his own job-disqualifying problems?
You do realize that Timothy's last name is Leary, right? He's writing based on first-hand knowledge.
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I bet you're glad that you were saved from the government death lists :(
I'm getting a cluster headache from all the *whooshes* around here
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Most grammar nazis I know assume that language never changes but it doesn't make them right.
I'm quite happy to accept most linguistic evolution, however people who say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less" are, and always will be, fucktards.