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What exactly are migraine associated vertigo symptoms? For that matter, what is migraine-associated vertigo (MAV)? Is it a disease? What causes it? How is it treated?
Another term sometimes used is vestibular migraine. But neither MAV or vestibular migraine are considered specific types of migraine (according to The International Classification of Headache Disorders). So it better not [...]
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What is comorbid with migraine, and what does that mean? Comorbidity basically refers to two conditions that tend to go together. That doesn’t mean that one caused the other. In fact, we usually don’t know why they go together.
It could be there’s a common cause, or maybe one could cause the other. It could be [...]
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In the last post we introduced two concepts – visual snow (VS) and persistent migraine aura (PMA). The first is a specific symptom which can have a number of causes; the second a diagnosis which can include the first.
First, persistent migraine aura (PMA) is diagnosed when other causes are ruled out. But as we’ve said [...]
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We’ve talked a lot about migraine aura – especially visual aura – here in the past. Typically, visual aura hits before an attack of pain in migraine, although sometimes it hits all by itself, and can be quite debilitating in its own right.
But what if that visual aura never went away?
That’s what does happen to [...]
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Hanging out on Twitter, I see a lot of talk about "cluster headache". Some people actually know what they’re talking about. But I suspect most do not.
Some seem to casually mention that they have a cluster headache today. Some mix up terms completely, saying things like cluster migraine. Or they say they have a migraine [...]
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