Message To Bret Michaels

Bret Michaels
Poison frontman and reality TV star, Bret Michaels, suffered a relapse in his health, after a brain hemorrhage (aneurysm) that occurred last month. Last week, he suffered a stroke, which is a different type of brain bleed.
As some of you know, I sustained an unprecedented brain hemorrhage in October 2008. I have not incurred a repeat aneurysm since and would like to offer Michaels some friendly advice.
First of all, you should take it easy. I've read of your tour and television plans and it will jeopardize your health. You've already been doing stressful interviews since being released from the hospital and have actively been planning a comeback, slated to launch in a matter of days, which is ill-advised.

For two weeks after I had the aneurysm, centered in a part of the occipital lobe that doctors had no precedent for, not even in the Mayo Clinic database, I could not even see straight, as the phrase goes. Literally. Things were blurry and I couldn't even read the text on television shows.
I even struggled to read items on my computer screen, as two lines of text, would merge into one line, due to the aneurysm. My 20/20 vision was gone, but after constant prayer, my vision returned in two weeks.
Vitamins And Iron Supplements
The things that helped me were quite simple and I believe they will help you as well. Take a good, reputable multi-vitamin. Take iron tablets as well (if your doctor says it is okay for you), as it helps with the blood and can ward off anemia, which I experienced. Anemia can contribute to and intensify the dizziness brain bleeds create. You should also drink plenty of sugarless fluids.
Depression
After a hemorrhage, the probability of depression is pretty high, due to the trauma one has sustain. Your mind begins to process the fact your brain was bleeding, which can become unsettling. Most medical journals indicate, one can become depressed and tearful without warning, after said event. It's also a physical reaction in the brain that will affect your emotions for a time.
Comedy
Watching funny, light hearted shows, even some from your childhood that made you happy, will lift your mood. I rediscovered old sitcoms and movies that made me laugh and it cheered me up.
Music Therapy
Music therapy is also good. Many underestimate the positive effects of music therapy on people's cognition, emotions, well being, will to survive and mood. Soothing and inspirational music helps the brain and boosts serotonin levels. It also has a calming effect, which relieves involuntary and unwanted anxiety and depression brought on by hemorrhages.
Headaches And Head Pains
After brain bleeds, one will experience a new breed of headaches and head pains. It is almost as though the diametric of the brain has changed for some, making one prone to more severe head aches and potential repeat hemorrhages.
Medication
Be careful regarding the medicine doctors will prescribe, as some such as Topamax, will do more harm than good and you can develop other terrible maladies such as metabolic acidosis, which can turn deadly if not treated in time. In short, watch what they give you for the headaches and head pains, as it can deteriorate your health even further.
Nausea
Nausea will be another problem, which can get pretty bad, constantly provoking your gag reflexes, before, during and after meals. Green tea or ginger tea helps with the nausea that becomes persistent for many. Deep breathing and holding your head back for a short period of time, helps suppress your gag reflexes urge, to make you conduct an involuntary regurgitating session with the toilet bowl.

Bret, that's green tea, not weed. I know you're a musician, so I have to be specific
Once again, touring and constant air travel is not a good idea for you right now. Changes in altitude and cabin pressure will wreak havoc on your head, creating intense headaches and head pains.
The stress of traveling on tour, long lines, flying, tour buses, checking into hotels after retrieving your luggage, sound checks (another serious headache source) is not good for you at this time.
You need to give yourself a chance to heal, as the blood from the initial hemorrhage and separately the stroke, most likely have not reabsorbed into the brain yet. Significant stress can cause another aneurysm or stroke, decreasing your probability of survival, which is very serious. Best wishes on your recovery.

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"Off Label Use" - Part 2

Topamax
6-months ago, the Judiciary Report wrote a series of articles, beginning on November 19, 2009, regarding the "Off Label Use" of the terrible pharmaceutical drug Topamax and its debilitating effects. "Off Label Use" is a term used when drug companies promote their products for uses other than what they were originally intended and approved for by the government.
Topamax is an epilepsy medication, but doctors, under the instruction of pharmaceutical companies, began prescribing it for other medical conditions, such as migraines, thunderclap headaches, depression and as a diet drug, because they were paid to do so. They greedily marketed it as a cure-all drug to cover a wide range of medical ailments, when it is a dangerous pharmaceutical.
6-months later on Friday, May 21, 2010, Johnson & Johnson, the makers of the drug, Topamax, pled guilty to pushing the pharmaceutical drug Topamax for uses other than what it was approved for by the government, using doctors in pay for play schemes, who then prescribed it to their patients under said inducements. They have agreed to pay over $80 million dollars in government fines.
I was speaking from experience when I wrote those articles last year, as I had a stress induced brain hemorrhage and was prescribed Topamax in 2009, for the headaches and head pains I began to experience after the incident, due to ongoing acute emotional distress and harassment.
I resisted taking the medication, a fact that was noted in my medical records more than once, as based on my significant understanding of pharmaceutical drugs, it did not seem like something someone who had experienced the unprecedented type of brain hemorrhage I did, should be prescribed.
However, a female doctor, who was a trainee at the teaching hospital, got upset during a follow up visit they ordered and demanded I take the medication.
Concerned they would discontinue treatment, while I was still very sick from the hemorrhage and angiogram they botched, leaving me with nerve damage in my right leg, I took the Topamax.
Within two days of doing so, I was as sick as a parrot, due to the Topamax. It was worse than the stress induced brain hemorrhage. I developed a condition known as metabolic acidosis, which is the end result of medication creating an environment in the body that promotes acid in the blood, which is horrible. In essence, it is like blood poisoning.
The first signs of it was a very elevated heart rate, which simulated the feeling of having a heart attack and involuntary hyperventilation, which is the lungs trying to blow off the excess carbon dioxide, thanks to the Topamax.
It reached a crescendo on the day before Thanksgiving last year. I fell asleep and one hour later, was awoken by a terrible pain on my right side that was wrapping around from my back to my ribs and depressing my breathing to the point I had stopped taking in oxygen. In short, I was choking to death in my sleep, with a sharp pain on the right side of my back and ribs, constricting to the point, I could barely move.
When I was finally able to move and stand up, I started breathing again, but when I slowly walked over to a mirror, I noticed I was shaking like a leaf, a term known as "tremors" which was created by the Topamax.
I asked my mom to call 911, as I was concerned I would lapse into a coma and die and the pain in the ribcage constricting my breathing, was still there. It literally hurt to breathe. The ambulance took me to the hospital that originally prescribed the Topamax, after the paramedics noticed the tremors.
The hospital did everything they could to limit liability, realizing I was experiencing a very adverse reaction to the Topamax, an epilepsy drug, they had prescribed to me, someone without epilepsy, who was experiencing headaches and head pains (linger effects of the hemorrhage) and nerve pain in my leg (due to the botched angiogram).
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