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Magnesium: Top of the List for Migraine

by James on 27 October 2009

We’ve talked about magnesium for migraine a lot here, and we’re not going to stop because it’s something that actually helps a lot of people.
There have been quite the conversations going on here at Headache and Migraine News about magnesium, and I’m going to highlight one comment in a moment.  But first, let me just [...]

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Migraine Associated Vertigo Treatment – Steroids?

by James on 21 September 2009

Finding migraine associated vertigo treatment continues to be a challenge.  But we need better answers – vertiginous aura from migraine can be debilitating, and frightening.  Sometimes mild, but sometimes so severe it lands people in the hospital.  Migraine is to blame for a huge percentage of vertigo in the population.
The journal Headache recently published a [...]

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Migraine and Magnesium – new study

by James on 6 November 2008

Is there a migraine magnesium connection?  Could you lower your risk of a migraine attack by taking a magnesium supplement?  A new study suggests that the answer is yes.

It was actually over 70 years ago that it was first suggested that there is a migraine magnesium link.  Today, many migraineurs take a daily magnesium supplement, [...]

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Back to brain lesions

by James on 16 July 2007

There has been concern over the past few years about the link between migraine and brain lesions.  I wrote about the study back in early 2004 that demonstrated that people with migraine with aura had some damage to brain tissue, known as lesions.  This is not uncommon damage, but the fact that there were more [...]

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