by Dr Robbins | Dec 9, 2012 | Headache Drugs
For those unlucky enough to inherit chronic headaches, where the meds do not work all that well and the headaches are frequent, life can be very rough. Personally, family/spouses/friends often do not want to hear about it, and have little empathy(altho there are some...
by Dr Robbins | Nov 30, 2012 | Headache Drugs
I have an adolescent headache center. Adolescents, severe headache, and home schooling: a complex issue. In the 80’s and 90’s, I took a tough love approach, “my job is to work here, yours is to go to school… no excuses, you have to go, if you...
by Dr Robbins | Nov 24, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Dr. Zachary Roth, a resident in ophthalmology at Albany Medical Center in New York and his colleagues looked at 158 children under the age of 18 who were referred to ophthalmologists for frequent headaches. The researchers had noted that children complaining of...
by Dr Robbins | Nov 16, 2012 | Headache Drugs
“My wife had a nickname for me, ‘Glowworm,’ because my face was constantly illuminated by some sort of screen in bed,” says Daniel Sieberg, a former technology journalist and author of “The Digital Diet,” a 2011 book on how he...
by Dr Robbins | Nov 4, 2012 | Headache Drugs
So we were in New York during the hurricane(I was there for a psychopharmacology conference and exam……bad timing….). At CVS and Walgreens, there were long lines for medications; the woman in front of me was getting her sumatriptan for migraines. Many...
