Are We “Counting” Migraine Attacks Wrong? (podcast)
A podcast about an interesting new study that may begin to change the way we calculate the number of “migraine attacks” we get in a given period. Find out why this is important to future research, and to your current understanding of your personal migraine attacks.
[display_podcast]You can read the full study here: What constitutes a migraine attack? -A counting clinician’s perspective.
25 October 2019 @ 1:30 pm
This is so interesting; thank you for the summary! I first went to the PDF but it was difficult to pull out the main points. Now the only thing I’m wondering about is when the pain of an attack switches sides–I’m assuming given all the same metrics you talked about that this would still be considered the same attack, as long as there isn’t a significant amount of pain-free time in between. I think in the past I’ve often recorded a migraine starting on the other side of my head as a new attack, but more recently I’ve started to record those as the same attack. It’s hard to tell sometimes though. Thanks again!