by Sue Robbins | Dec 19, 2019 | Migraine
Nearly half of all patients who suffer migraines report sleep disturbance as a trigger for their headaches. But the relationship between sleep and migraine headaches is not well understood or well-studied. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 18, 2019 | Migraine
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that ubrogepant demonstrated greater rates of pain and symptom relief from migraine compared with a placebo. More than 20% of participants in a large-scale clinical trial reported being pain-free...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 16, 2019 | Migraine
Ann Jones tried everything short of surgery for her chronic migraines, which have plagued her since she was a child. “They’ve actually gotten worse in my old age,” says Jones, who is 70 years old and lives in Tucson, Ariz. Jones would have as many as...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 11, 2019 | Migraine
Compared with nonmenstrual migraine attacks, menstrual migraine attacks have been linked with increased allodynia scores at the onset of migraine attacks, according to a study recently published in Headache. This prospective cohort study included 32 participants (all...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 6, 2019 | Miscellaneous
In recent years, chronic-pain patients on long-term opioid therapy have been living in fear. They fear being abruptly cut off from their medication by doctors who no longer feel comfortable prescribing opioids. They fear the prospect of withdrawal and a life of pain....
