Articles
You know you can search the blog, or browse by month or category. But I also wanted to point you to some key articles to get you started, especially if you’re new here. Check out the ones that interest you, and be sure to contact me to request a post about something specific!
Tips
(For more tips, don’t miss our 1% Thursday series!)
- Top 7 ways to stop Weekend Headache
- How Disabled is your Child with Migraine?
- Don’t Ignore Migraine During Perimenopause
- The Migraineur’s Quick Guide to Reading Food Labels
- How to avoid that Altitude Headache
- More Headache Technology (for iPhone and iPhone Touch)
- How to be a better Headache or Migraine Doctor
- The Unexpected Stress-Killer
- Juice and Blood Sugar Spikes
- A Migraine Diary: The Lazy Way
- Stopping Headaches after Seizure
- A Sleep Apnea Mystery Solved?
- Get a Headache after Working Out?
- How to do a “Headache Massage” (Video)
- Finding the Right Pain Clinic (4 things to look for)
- Headache and Migraine: Too many not seeing a doctor
- Health Insurance – 6 ways to Maximize Your Coverage
- 12 ways to Evaluate Migraine News
- Migraine triggers: The Onion
- Have your child draw their headache (why and how)
- Energy drinks – know what you’re drinking
- Exercise and Migraine: 5 top tips for staying active
- Those flickering Compact Fluorescents!
- Those One-Idea Days
- Nitrates and Nitrites
- Splenda – migraine trigger?
- My monitor is too BRIGHT!
- Eye pillows
- Take a break!
- Alka-Seltzer Gold for migraine?
- Healthy whole grain recipe
- Precision tinted glasses
- Unexpected food headaches
- Computer users-this one’s for you!
- Getting better treatment faster
- Is it time to make a change?
- Love lavender?
Drugs
- Genetics and Triptans
- A New way to take Toradol
- Nortriptyline for Chronic Pain
- Two Botox Studies Published (and it’s good news for Botox)
- Zanaflex for Migraine? and Chronic Daily Headache?
- When using Triptans, do you make this mistake?
- How Dangerous are Migraine Drugs during Pregnancy?
- More on DHE: Home Therapy for Chronic Daily Headache?
- Levadex – inhaled migraine drug on the way
- Migralex finally launched – new abortive
- Easy injections and needle-free injections
- By the Way – Botox Lawsuit one to Watch…
- New Migraine Drug Telcagepant – Not Dead Yet
- New Botox Trials – Encouraging News on the bumpy road to acceptance
- What is Verapamil?
- Migraine Associated Vertigo Treatment – Steroids?
- Generic Medications – The same but different?
- Cambia – new drug for Migraine
- FDA Warning: Reglan (Metoclopramide)
- The Latest on Tezampanel, a new Migraine Drug
- New Migraine Topamax study: Adolescents
- Namenda Migraine Treatment
- Let’s think about drug trials
- DHE Migraine Treatment: Why some people still use it
- Triptans and NSAIDs: 1 better than 2?
- Migraine Nasal Spray – Should You Try One?
- Anti-seizure meds and Suicide
- What Everyone should know about Telcagepant – the coming Migraine Drug
- Caution: Giving Medications to Children
- Taking certain drugs with juice could be dangerous
- Treximet (formerly Trexima)
- Atenolol (Tenormin) for migraine
- Topamax may cause language disturbances
- Excedrin Migraine (and other specific drugs)
- Travel and drugs
- Actiq for migraine
- That drug’s hidden ingredients
- Intranasal Zolmitriptan for Cluster
- Keeping track of medications
- Narcotics tip
Types of Migraine
- Familial Hemiplegic Migraine 1 – Not Always the Same
- Migraine Associated Vertigo Symptoms
- Visual Snow and Persistent Migraine Aura – tests and treatments
- Persistent Migraine Aura and Visual Snow?
- Have a slight headache? Might be migraine
- Migraine without Headache: More common than we think?
- When Menstrually Related Migraine isn’t Alone
- Basilar-type Migraine – Strangest Migraine on the Block?
- 5 Signs You have Retinal Migraine
- Vestibular Migraine – Why the confusion?
- Do you REALLY have Ocular Migraine?
- Symptoms of Abdominal Migraine
Alternative treatments
- Enzyme Supplements and Migraine
- How to use Peppermint Oil or Menthol to Fight Migraine
- Capsaicin – A Little Cayenne with your Migraine?
- Gluten-free, Casein-free Diet – for Migraine?
- Should we give up on the PFO Closure Solution?
- Biofeedback for Migraine and Headache (podcast)
- Magnesium: Top of the List for Migraine
- New Study on Virtual Reality for Pain
- Just three drops to kill a Migraine Attack
- What are the best brands of probiotics?
- Vitamin B2, Migraine, and Genetics
- Omega 3 and Migraine
- Vinpocetine for Migraine?
- Trigger Points: Identification, Myths, and Preparing to Fight them
- More on the NTI-tss device (with video)
- Menstrual Migraine: Back to Vitamin E
- Christian Body Migraine Defense (now Tuliv Migraine Defense)
- The Forgotten Therapy
- 9 Easy Ways to use Aromatherapy for Headaches
- Aromatherapy: Top 5 for Migraine or Headache
- Migraine and Magnesium – new study
- Alternative treatments for cluster headache?
- Probiotics for IBS – study review
- Trigger points – do they trigger headaches?
- Trigger Points and headache – Fakery or Fact?
- Probiotics and fermentation
- Myofascial Release
- Ear candling
- Magnets for migraine?
- HeadOn?
- Pine bark extract for migraine
- Cheap headache killer you can learn
- Acupressure bands
- Is Melatonin a help?
- Herbal and botanical treatments
- Indian Head Massage (Champissage)
- Pilates and migraine
- Butterbur for kids
For fun
- How to introduce a migraine
- 9 Aphrodisiacs for the Romantic with Migraine
- Beaver for headache. Really.
- The Migraine Quiz
Investigation
- Migraine and Depression: Shared Genetics
- Migraine and Stroke in Young Adults and more
- Do "Migraine Diets" have this in Common?
- My Polysomnography – Sleep Study (podcast)
- 15 Diseases, disorders and syndromes that go along with Migraine
- Cancer, Antidepressants and CT Scans
- Is anyone else like me?
- Migraine and Out of Body Experiences
- Cluster Headache: Seeing is one step closer to believing
- If People Only Knew – the Power of Getting the Word Out
- Is it a Concussion or a Brain Injury?
- Using the Toilet in the Night? A surprising new study…
- Those with Migraine more Sensitive to Stress?
- Increased risk of Migraine and Heart Disease – new study
- Chocolate for Migraine?
- Deeper into Migraine, Glucose and Insulin…
- My Hair Hurts! Migraine and Allodynia
- Migraine and Cardiovascular Disease – Why?
- Migraine, Pregancy and Cardiovascular diseases – more disturbing news
- Migraine: Does your face hurt?
- Rating Doctors: Smart Technology or Dangerous Practice?
- Surgery for Occipital Neuralgia
- Sports Head Injury Controversy
- Major shift in Migraine Thought? (part 1)
- Major shift in Migraine Thought? (part 2)
- Popular ways to misdiagnose Hemicrania Continua
- Allodynia: A feature of Cluster as well as Migraine?
- The Gluten Syndrome and Migraine
- Cluster or Migraine: What’s the Difference?
- Cluster Headache in Children
- Understand Migraine
- Your Medication Didn’t Work: The Surprising Reason Why
- Podcast: Focus on Sleep Apnea
- Slimmer waistline – fewer Migraine attacks?
- First Migraine then Bloodshot Eye – What’s up?
- Chiari 1 Malformation, Mitochondrial diseases (podcast)
- Trigger points: A key to stopping Cluster Headache Pain?
- Migraine and Sex: The Pain Connection
- What is Migraine? (The Life Impact Story)
- Fight Migraine: Be nice to your Mitochondria
- Sorry about that… Should Your Doctor Apologize?
- Is High Blood Pressure Causing My Headache?
- Doxycycline for daily headache?
- What is Migraine? (the Story of Symptoms)
- Measuring Pre-Migraine Stress Levels
- What is Migraine? (the scientific story)
- Migraine Art (video)
- Migraine Expressions (a review)
- Splenda and Migraine revisited
- Is a Deviated Septum giving you a headache?
- Why Migraine Auras are the way the are
- Computer games for headache?
- Do I need an EEG?
- So we’re smart people with brain damage?
- Headaches, migraine and depression
- Are patients kept in the dark?
- Food intolerance
- Stomach problems?
- Internet migraine fraud
- Sleep apnea and migraine?




