[ABC] TAKE YOUR LIFE BACK: ENDING MIGRAINE PAIN

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TAKE YOUR LIFE BACK: ENDING MIGRAINE PAIN 

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): And now the latest in our special series on new frontiers in medicine, [1]cutting edge treatments for [2]the worst kind of chronic pain.  Tonight, [3]migraines.

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(VO): And ABC's Deb Roberts, who [4]knows something about migraines firsthand, tells us about a new idea.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): [5]I would have shooting pains up the back of my head.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): 13 years ago, Kelly Amspacher [6]woke up with a massive headache that [7]sent her to the ER.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): I thought I was going to die.  [8]Throbbing feeling like spears are coming through my eyes.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): And for 4,750 days, it's never gone away.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): Kelly became one of the 22 million American women who suffer from migraines.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): I needed to [9]leave my job.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): She [10]pleaded daily with her doctors for help and was [11]on a massive cocktail of drugs.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): 44 medications.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(OC): 44 medications.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): Yes.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(OC): And none of them worked?

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): No.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): [12]At her wits end, Kelly [13]found her way to one of the country's top headache specialists, Dr Stephen Silberstein.

DOCTOR STEPHEN SILBERSTEIN (JEFFERSON HEADACHE CENTER): [14]We get the worst of the worst here.  Their life is [15]a continuous migraine hell.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): He [16]offered an exciting ray of hope in a new study, using this tiny, spaghetti-like wire.  Called a neurostimulator, it [17]acts like a pacemaker.  It was [18]implanted inside Kelly's body, below the hip with [19]two wires were then threaded up her spine to the nerves at the base of her neck.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): That's where they come together.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): Whenever the migraine hits, she uses a remote control to [20]send tiny electrical impulses to interrupt the pain signals.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): When I [21]woke up from the anesthesia, I noticed that I didn't have any pain at all.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(OC): Immediately?

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): Immediately.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(VO): Today, Kelly's headaches are fewer and milder.  Now she's doing what she couldn't before, like watching her daughter's field hockey game.

KELLY AMSPACHER (MIGRAINE SUFFERER): It has freed me immensely.  It has given me my life back.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(OC): The stimulator is widely used in Europe but it is still being tested here [22]in the testing phase, as [23]the FDA, Diane, has not given it the go ahead.  So...

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): But safe so far in Europe.

DEBORAH ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)(OC): So far - so far so good.

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[1] 첨단 치료법들

[2] 가장 심한 만성 통증

[3] 편두통

[4] 편두통을 어느 정도 직접 알고 있는

[5] 머리 뒤편에 갑자기 총에 맞은 것 같은 통증이 와요

[6] 엄청난 두통과 함께 깼어요

[7] 그로 (통증으로) 인해 응급실로 갔다

[8] 계속 찌르는 듯한 통증인데 송곳이 눈을 뚫고 나오는 것 같아요.

[9] 직장을 그만 두다

[10] 의사에게 매일 도와달라고 간청하다

[11] 여러 가지 약을 다량으로 먹다

[12] 도저히 어찌할 바를 몰라서

[13] 우리 나라 최고의 통증 전문의 중의 한 사람을 찾아가게 되었다

[14] 여기에는 참다 참다 못 참겠다 싶은 분들이 와요

[15] 편두통으로 인해 지옥 같은 생활이 계속되는

[16] 희망의 빛을 주다

[17] 심박기와 비슷하게 작동하다

[18] 켈리의 몸 안에 이식되다

[19] 전선 두 가닥을 척추 위로 해서 목 뿌리 부분의 신경으로 연결하다

[20] 작은 전기 신호들을 보내서 통증 (신경) 신호를 차단하다

[21] 마취에서 깨어나다

[22] 시험 단계

[23] FDA가 아직 승인을 하지 않았다