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...
by Dr Robbins | Mar 17, 2012 | Headache Drugs
There are a number of “comorbid(co-occurring)” conditions that may go along with chronic headaches. Chronic headaches represent what we call “central sensitization”, where the brain just keeps on firing those headache waves over and over,...
by Dr Robbins | Mar 10, 2012 | Headache Drugs
I have a new article, on this homepage(upper left) on refractory(difficult to treat) headaches, a 10 year study using a unique “refractory scale”. Refractory is difficult to manage or treat, headaches that do not respond easily to the usual meds. I would...
by Dr Robbins | Jan 14, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Refractory means “difficult to treat”…where the headaches have not responded to the usual minstrations..this is a common situation. Previously, I had published several studies(in our Archives) on long-term effects of daily headache preventives:...