Mac and Brew,

I'll just put it to him this way.  If you're willing to spot the $100 to cover the tests, i'll take it.  Otherwise, you can omit that test from your observation. 

Out of the two neuros I have been to, this guy is much better than the other jackass for the mere reason of pushing for O2 therapy and clusterbusting.
My first neuro rolled his eyes at me when I said I spoke on chat boards to folks like yourselves.  This new guys encouraged it.  He even showed me framed drawings of other clusterheads and how they feel when they get hit.  If the MMPI test is the only disagreement i've had with him thus far, that's minor.  He's a keeper.

Brew wrote on Dec 17^th, 2009 at 3:06pm:
Brew, I wouldn't expect anything less coming from you, lol

deltadarlin, No offence, but if this is considered the gold standard for evaulating psychological problems we as a Nation are in deep kimshee.

Once I lived for 3 winters (years) in a tee pee, off the land because i was hurt on the job and AIG screwed me out of back surgery. I was sent at one point for a psychological exam.

That ju ju doctor was as gay as a rainbow. He wore frilly scarves and had hundreds tied to a floor lamp.

I would maintain I was more average and more normal, what ever that is, than that so called doctor, who held out a pinky just ever so', and behaved as if he were a woman. He was very proud of his scarf collection.

Now before this goes totally south, I worked with a gay guy building wooden musical items, like church organs, and a female gay, driving teams of horses to haul tourists around in winter on a really big sleigh (logging pung), and had no problems with them.

But Doctor fu fu was just over the top. I didn't fill the prescription he gave me either, as there wasn't anything wrong with my thinking, while the court thought so. The court was upset because i got their papers a little too damp for their liking.

The court failed to understand when I said tee pee and woods I ment tee pee and living in the woods. It just happened to be -50 below 0 degrees F. It wasn't my fault no court investigator would come after I made an invite for around 3:00 am any time they wanted.

That test is total schlock.

The problem is there is no 'science' in any one of the questions..

Mac_Muz wrote on Dec 17^th, 2009 at 3:35pm:
Trust me Mac, I felt like punching the F'er out.

Brew wrote on Dec 17^th, 2009 at 3:50pm:
From what I understand, the test would be performed by a psychologists.  It won't be in my neuro's office If I do it at all. 

Mac_Muz wrote on Dec 17^th, 2009 at 3:55pm:
OUCH!!!

Brew,
Think I already said what you did, didn't I?

deltadarlin wrote on Dec 17^th, 2009 at 4:10pm:

Yep. I was agreeing with you. Wasn't I?

Chad,
I'd forego the MMPI.  It's actually not designed for general psychological testing/usage.  The MMPI was designed to measure pathological personality traits. 

If the doc is worried about your emotional well-being, then that's fine, but that's where a good counselor (or this board) comes in.

Mac,
I'm a little confused by your responses (nope, not a ch'er, just a migrainer who's supported her ch'er for over 25 years).  I have said on more than one occasion that I do not believe that the MMPI would be beneficial to Chad or any other person with ch.  or anyone with an illness or chronic pain.

Should I type slower?

Alright, here's my opinion:  cluster headaches are still "shrouded" in mystery in the medical community.  Seems impossible to medical community that people could actually be experiencing so much pain without an actual physical injury.  Seems flabbergasting that these said people get pretty upset about having to have all that pain.  So, the next step is to start suspecting/probing things like personality defects/weaknesses, rather than face the fact that the damn headaches really hurt like hell.  Especially when they come over and over again and wake you up at night and then you have to cope with a lot of pain on top of having no sleep.  People don't understand what they haven't experienced--that's all.  That is the reason for the personality test to find out if the person is "overreacting" or "misinterpreting" the pain.  TOTAL BS.

deltadarlin wrote on Dec 24^th, 2009 at 9:45am:
Heck, every doc may have something you don't agree with and if this MMPI test is the only thing, so be it.  Everything else he has said is dead on.  I had my MRI and EEG on Monday, that's usually routine. He writes scripts for the things I need like O2 and Trex inj. and most of all he supports the use of LSA and LSD.  I doubt half of everybodies neuros on here back that up.  I wouldn't trade this guy for the world.

["It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known.]
But ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

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