{"id":10559,"date":"2011-07-21T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2011-07-21T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:01:28","slug":"bachmann%e2%80%99s-migraines-do-not-require-%e2%80%98heavy-pill-use%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10559\/bachmann%e2%80%99s-migraines-do-not-require-%e2%80%98heavy-pill-use%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann\u2019s Migraines Do Not Require \u2018Heavy Pill Use\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Troy\u2019s earlier point<\/a> about the media creating a false story about presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-MN) being a pill-popping migraine sufferer is borne out by reporting from Byron York.\u00a0 Citing what amounts to a doctor\u2019s note from the resident physician in the House of Representatives (released with Bachmann\u2019s permission), York says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The doctor says Bachmann has had “an extensive evaluation by both my office and by a board-certified consulting neurologist.”\u00a0 That evaluation, he continues, “has entailed detailed labwork and brain scans, all of which were normal.”\u00a0 Monahan says Bachmann’s migraines occur “infrequently,” and that when she does have a headache, she is “able to control it well with as-needed sumatriptan and odasentron.”\u00a0 Monahan says Bachmann has not needed to take the medication daily.\u00a0 The two drugs, he adds, are “commonly used therapies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With that behind us, let\u2019s get news that really matters, like whether Joe Biden\u2019s botox habit<\/a> is compromising his ability to advise (or possible succeed!) the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Troy\u2019s earlier point about the media creating a false story about presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-MN) being a pill-popping migraine sufferer is borne out by reporting from Byron York.\u00a0 Citing what amounts to a doctor\u2019s note from the resident physician in the House of Representatives (released with Bachmann\u2019s permission), York says: The doctor says Bachmann […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,1702,645,84,101,116,2066,2889,1017],"class_list":["post-10559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-ashton-ellis","tag-byron-york","tag-congress","tag-joe-biden","tag-media","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-migraine","tag-msm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10564,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}