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More on DHE: Home Therapy for Chronic Daily Headache?

by James on 5 February 2010

I appreciated Ellen’s blog post on Home therapy for intractable Migraine.  She mentions an interesting study, and brings up, once again, DHE migraine treatment!
DHE, or dihydroergotamine, has been a topic of conversation here more than once.  See especially DHE Migraine Treatment: Why some people still use it and Levadex – inhaled migraine drug on the [...]

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Levadex – inhaled migraine drug on the way

by James on 19 January 2010

Levadex is something new, and it isn’t.  It’s a new formulation of dihydroergotamine mesylate (DHE), known by many as DHE 45 (an injection) or Migranal (a nasal spray where the drug is accompanied by caffiene).  DHE was introduced in the 40s, so it’s been around in various versions for a long time.
This new version known [...]

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My Hair Hurts! Migraine and Allodynia

by James on 19 September 2009

Like about 2/3 of migraineurs, allodynia is one of the wonderful symptoms that comes along with many of my migraine attacks.  It’s always uncomfortable, and usually painful, and believe it or not most people have never heard of it.
Allodynia.  Migraineurs often suffer from cutaneous allodynia – that is, sensitivity and/or pain when the skin is [...]

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DHE Migraine Treatment: Why some people still use it

by James on 20 February 2009

To get some background on DHE migraine treatment, we need to go back to the days before DHE, or dihydroergotamine, was used.  It was actually in 1925 that the first migraine patient got an injection of ergotamine tartrate.  It worked – stopping the migraine that just wasn’t going away.
In 1943 came the next step for [...]

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