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The National Headache Foundation (US) will be hosting a chat session focused on cluster headache this coming Tuesday. You need to sign up to be involved, because the number of participants will be limited. Special guest will be Dr. Frederick G. Freitag, Medical Director of Baylor University Medical Center’s Comprehensive Headache Center in Dallas, TX. [...]
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I was recently sent this infographic from The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Infographics can be useful summaries. But sometimes when we summarize information, we can miss important things. How do you think this infographic does? Source: Mount Sinai Medical Center
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This past October, The Lancet Neurology published a study from France using steroid injections for cluster headache patients. Though certainly not the silver bullet for cluster, the treatment did show promise. The study featured patients who were having at least 2 cluster headache attacks per day. Patients were randomly chosen to take an injection of [...]
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A new study in Neurology suggests that sodium oxybate may be one of the future drugs for cluster headache sufferers. We’ve long known about the connection between sleep disorders and cluster. But typical medication for sleep has not been the miracle solution for cluster. But sodium oxybate may be the exception to the rule. Sodium [...]
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I mean it. I’m tired of cluster migraine. I’ve had enough. It needs to go. I know, some people think they have a use for it. They don’t think there’s any easy alternative. But frankly, I think it’s causing more problems than it’s solving. It’s had its day, and it’s time for it to be ditched, [...]
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