by Dr Robbins | Jun 20, 2012 | Headache Drugs
What do we mean by “chronic migraine”?? Episodic migraine is migraine that occurs less than 15 days a month; less than 15 days a month of any sort of headache. Episodic migraine may be 1, 2, 6,9 headaches a month, but certainly not daily or most days. Most...
by Dr Robbins | Jun 17, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Recently, in the Journal of the American Medical Association there was a review and meta-analysis on the benefits of onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox A), or rather a devalued opinion of it’s benefits for chronic migraine (CM). As a therapy for migraine, the authors...
by Jeff Poleet | Jun 12, 2012 | Headache Drugs, Miscellaneous
“Pain must be regarded as a disease… and the physician’s first duty is action–heroic action–to fight disease.” –Benjamin Rush The impetus of this post originally came from the very brave and truthful comments posted by Dr....
by Jeff Poleet | May 15, 2012 | Headache Drugs, Miscellaneous
This is a post taken from excerpts from comments I shared between another migraine patient and I in regards to preventive migraine treatment. I wanted to share it in a blog post, as I didn’t want the information to be overlooked in the comments section. With that...
by Jeff Poleet | Apr 22, 2012 | Headache Drugs, Miscellaneous
It was a little over a year ago that I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Robbins. Like most headache/migraine patients I had spent many years bouncing around between Family Practice doctors, Internists, Allergists, Neurologists, all to no avail. At the time I walked...
