by Sue Robbins | Sep 8, 2020 | Miscellaneous
While acetaminophen is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be making you more willing to take risks, a new study suggests. People who took acetaminophen rated activities like “bungee jumping off a tall bridge” and “speaking your mind...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 31, 2020 | Migraine
Aura has long been a perplexing issue in migraine. Primarily viewed as a prodromal sign of migraine in some patients some of the time, aura has been largely overlooked in clinical trials that tend to enroll patients with migraine with and without aura.1 However, new...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 24, 2020 | Migraine
Fewer than one in three people with migraine took guideline-recommended prescription medication, data presented at the American Headache Society (AHS) annual scientific meeting showed. About 28% of survey respondents with mild to severe migraine-related disability...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 18, 2020 | Migraine
When Jennifer Latson began having migraines at 12, she wasn’t sure exactly what was going on. She just knew she felt terrible. “I would be out sick for a day or two each month,” she said. “It was intense pain, and it made me puke constantly.” Her parents...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 13, 2020 | Migraine
I was sitting in my neurologist’s office, as my doctor and I reviewed the long list of things we’d already tried to treat my chronic migraine—supplements and hard-to-pronounce drugs, abortive and preventative medications, near-misses and...