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Today is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.  Actually, it’s also Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (otherwise known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) Awareness Day. Both Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS are nasty relatives of migraine.  Fibromyalgia in particular is a well-known comorbid condition with migraine.  How exactly these interact is a complicated issue. We do know that chronic headache and/or migraine conditions are very [...]

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A recently published study explored the unique character of cluster headache in women.  Cluster in women has not been studied a lot because it’s so rare.  In fact, cluster in men is rare, but it’s much more common in men than in women. So how are woman clusterheads unique?  Here are a few of the findings: [...]

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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 [...]

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