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Confused about the difference between chronic daily headache and chronic tension type headache? Let’s talk about it. This month a report came out about the use of Botox for various headache disorders. The meta-analysis (a study of earlier studies) concluded that Botox had been helpful for "chronic daily headache" and "chronic migraines", but had not [...]
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Women (and men) with chronic headache conditions know that headache can impact every area of life. But different symptoms can impact different people in different ways. And headache doesn’t have an equal impact on every area of life. A recent study in Italy focused on how primary headaches (ie migraine and chronic tension-type headache) impacted the [...]
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Transformed Migraine is another older term that isn’t used as often anymore. What used to be called transformed migraine or evolutive migraine can now actually be called several different things, depending on the diagnosis. The most basic diagnosis is chronic migraine. Transformed migraine (TM) referred to patients who had migraine symptoms very frequently or even [...]
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It’s time to take a look at what’s new with Namenda migraine treatment. Namenda is actually just one brand name for memantine. It’s also sold as Axura, Akatinol, Ebixa and Memox. Namenda is commonly used for Alzheimer patients, but is being tested for a number of other neurological disorders. Technically known as a moderate affinity [...]
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Two types of headache that are similar, but usually should be treated differently: Transformed migraine and Chronic tension-type headache. The second type happens to many people from time to time. Every day or every other day you find yourself with a tension headache. It’s usually on both sides of the head and has that pressing [...]
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