Having been through the medical sawmill for the past 4 years with a family member who has been placed in the medicals worlds "conversion disorder bucket" which is pretty much anything neurological that does not show up on a MRI. My daughter has severe migraines that trigger blackouts and from time to time she will have neurological impacts after these blackouts , such as loss of color vision, loss of sense of touch, loss of speech motor skills. In my book it just boils down to medical science not really having any true understanding of the neuro chemical processes of the brain. It's not their fault. We are just not technologically ther yet. You can't see the flu with a X-ray and you can't necessarily see what's going on in the brain with a MRI. Just like a hundred years ago all cancers were the "consumption" , now days we have the medical understanding that ther are hundreds of different cancers with thousands of different causes. I have faith that medical science will also understand the neurological cause and effect that is lumped under the catch all of "conversion disorder". I know this post does nothing to answer your original questions, just more of a rant/support post to let you know you are not alone. There are also some doctors that leave the impression that is a "in your head issue" rather than just admitting they don't know. They are in the mode of wait and see or go to therapy with no real inclination of if a issue is helped by therapy or would have cleared up on its own. I will put away my soap box now.
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Having been through the medical sawmill for the past 4 years with a family member who has been placed in the medicals worlds "conversion disorder bucket" which is pretty much anything neurological that does not show up on a MRI. My daughter has severe migraines that trigger blackouts and from time to time she will have neurological impacts after these blackouts , such as loss of color vision, loss of sense of touch, loss of speech motor skills. In my book it just boils down to medical science not really having any true understanding of the neuro chemical processes of the brain. It's not their fault. We are just not technologically ther yet. You can't see the flu with a X-ray and you can't necessarily see what's going on in the brain with a MRI. Just like a hundred years ago all cancers were the "consumption" , now days we have the medical understanding that ther are hundreds of different cancers with thousands of different causes. I have faith that medical science will also understand the neurological cause and effect that is lumped under the catch all of "conversion disorder". I know this post does nothing to answer your original questions, just more of a rant/support post to let you know you are not alone. There are also some doctors that leave the impression that is a "in your head issue" rather than just admitting they don't know. They are in the mode of wait and see or go to therapy with no real inclination of if a issue is helped by therapy or would have cleared up on its own. I will put away my soap box now.
July 9, 2012 - 12:31pmThis Comment
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