Injury Report: Nolan Patrick Diagnosed With Migraine Disorder (Sep. 26); limited practice, quotes (Feb 17-20)

[Bankers Box]

I have had 1 migraine in my life. I woke up blind. No joke. NO one believed me. It took 3 hours for my vision to come back. I was freaking the **** out.

I had a family member who got them on the reg until they figured out what caused them. The root cause was the oil on the peel of oranges. THey could eat oranges, drink orange juice, but could not touch the peel or an orange without getting a devastating migraine. Migraines are very weird and can be debilitating.

Very interesting but how did they figure out that it was the oil on an orange that caused the migraines?

 

[hatcher]

Sounds like you've never had a debilitating migraine before.

Hey dude we might get along on here but I feel for ya. If Patrick's is bad he could be done. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. All the best to you.

 

[Flyotes]

Once in a blue moon when I get a migraine, there is little to do beyond taking migraine medicine, turn off all stimuli, lights, noise, and try to time travel by sleeping. Noise hurts.

 

[StoneHands]

Interesting a bunch of you are talking about coffee. If I don’t have at least a cup by early afternoon, I get very fatigued and develop a headache. It’s brutal. And I don’t think it comes close to the pain of an actual migraine.

Hope he gets better and can get effective treatment. Very tough to function period, never mind as a pro athlete, with that kind of condition.

Yeah, that's called addiction.

 

[FlyerNutter]

You also do wonder how long this has been going on.

Or if it was helped along by a concussion.

f***.

 

[Here4ThaLids]

Hope we've learned something from the Lindros era and the kid sits until he's truly comfortable coming back. He can sit a whole season if he needs to and I wouldn't mind one bit. We are cursed, absolutely cursed as a franchise but we don't need to compound the damage.

Two stray thoughts, one hotter than the other:

- not a doctor, but there are lots of reasons for migraines not related to concussions. I don't get them often, but mine are neck-related, and I immediately think of Crosby's struggles with what we all thought were concussions but what turned out to be at least one concussion combined with a significant neck injury that went undiagnosed for months and months. Multiple doctors completely missed it. Definitely would get Nolan out for lots and lots of opinions.

- Gabriel should not make this team under any circumstances, mostly because he sucks and doesn't have any way of helping the team win, but also because of these optics. An injury is bad enough, but imagine seeing the guy who gave it to you fill the very spot he vacated.

 

[Jtown]

Very interesting but how did they figure out that it was the oil on an orange that caused the migraines?

So these migraines were brutal. They had to be in pitch black room with no noise. Any sort of stimulus was agonizing. Progress was slowly made. A family friend who was a physician recommended muscle relaxers, which made them more bearable. Then when it occurred at a family members house they put it together, that they had just peeled and eaten an orange, and it dawned on them that this had occurred before. They had gotten about 10 of these devastating migraines per year. Since the self diagnosed orange theory they haven't had a single one. Citrus is a well known substance that can lead to migraines. Caffeine is another big one.

 

[landsbergfan]

Eh backstrom had migraine disorder his whole career. Time to suck it up.

Exactly! JFC. Haven't these people heard of Advil?

 

[Beef Invictus]

It's kind of amazing how many things can make the brain go "Fine, f*** it, f*** you, here's infinite pain."

 

[SuchySays]

Once in a blue moon when I get a migraine, there is little to do beyond taking migraine medicine, turn off all stimuli, lights, noise, and try to time travel by sleeping. Noise hurts.

Taking a dump could help too.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Yeah, that's called addiction.

Yeah, I know.

 

[The Burdened]

Good thing they signed Hayes tbh
Let him take as much time as is required.

 

[Curufinwe]

Exactly! JFC. Haven't these people heard of Advil?

I just reported a main board post for trolling that was a picture of Advil.

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Taking a dump could help too.

Is that so?

 

[Hivemind]

Fortunately, we don't really need to "play internet doctor" to get a decent idea of the root causes of his migraines. We can just look at the doctor the Flyers said he went to, Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher.
https://www.thesportsneurologyclinic.com/jeffrey-kutcher-md

The Kutcher Clinic (formerly known as The Sports Neurology Clinic) is led by Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher, an internationally recognized expert and sports neurology pioneer, specializing in the diagnosis and management of concussion, post-concussion syndrome and neurological conditions in athletes.

 

[landsbergfan]

I wonder if he has tried Peppermint oil

 

[VladDrag]

This sucks for Nolan. Hope he recovers, not even for hockey reasons. No 20yr kid deserves chronic migraines to last the rest of his life.

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Fortunately, we don't really need to "play internet doctor" to get a decent idea of the root causes of his migraines. We can just look at the doctor the Flyers said he went to, Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher.
https://www.thesportsneurologyclinic.com/jeffrey-kutcher-md

Well he’s clearly been having an awful offseason if that’s why he missed the last two games.

 

[Starat327]

I have had 1 migraine in my life. I woke up blind. No joke. NO one believed me. It took 3 hours for my vision to come back. I was freaking the **** out.

I had a family member who got them on the reg until they figured out what caused them. The root cause was the oil on the peel of oranges. THey could eat oranges, drink orange juice, but could not touch the peel or an orange without getting a devastating migraine. Migraines are very weird and can be debilitating.

Retinals are absolutely terrifying.

That's the crazy and terrible thing about migraines, there are just so many stimuli that can cause them - the possibilities are endless.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Taking a dump could help too.

You mean...more than once per year?

Sounds reckless.

 

[Curufinwe]

Just turned 21 a week ago.

 

[Jtown]

Interesting a bunch of you are talking about coffee. If I don’t have at least a cup by early afternoon, I get very fatigued and develop a headache. It’s brutal. And I don’t think it comes close to the pain of an actual migraine.

Hope he gets better and can get effective treatment. Very tough to function period, never mind as a pro athlete, with that kind of condition.

Caffine withdrawl is serious. Every 3 months you should go at least a month without caffeine in order to let the receptors reset. If you don't you are not getting any performance improvement from caffeine , but the decrease in performance from withdrawal feels like baseline. Trust me I perform tons of chemistry experiments on my body.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Fortunately, we don't really need to "play internet doctor" to get a decent idea of the root causes of his migraines. We can just look at the doctor the Flyers said he went to, Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher.
https://www.thesportsneurologyclinic.com/jeffrey-kutcher-md

Also the NBA’s resident concussion expert for years. I knew I had heard that name somewhere.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Caffine withdrawl is serious. Every 3 months you should go at least a month without caffeine in order to let the receptors reset. If you don't you are not getting any performance improvement from caffeine , but the decrease in performance from withdrawal feels like baseline. Trust me I perform tons of chemistry experiments on my body.

May I also perform tons of chemistry on your body

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Yeah, that's called addiction.

No, that's called dependance. Big difference.