by James on 21 April 2011
I don’t think I’ve specifically focused on this on 1% Thursday, but now that the price has dropped so much, it’s time to give it some serious consideration. Do you want to cut down on your time in front of that flickering computer screen? Do you want to have a wealth of things to do [...]
by James on 1 December 2009
A recent study from Brazil asked the question – are those with migraine more sensitive to stress? Is there a difference between those with migraine and aura, and those without aura? And what about different types of stress? Note, this is not asking whether or not stress is a true "trigger" of migraine – a [...]
by James on 30 November 2009
During my recent reading of Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within, I was struck by a note that was sent in along with an entry to a migraine art competition. It certainly brings up some interesting questions: I have suffered with migraines since my early teens, and I am now seventy. The only time [...]
Though there’s some debate over just what role stress plays in headache and migraine, we all know that we don’t want too much of it. And when we’re down and out and in dealing with headache and other symptoms, we usually want to keep our stress to a minimum. Researchers in the UK at the [...]
by James on 25 November 2008
A new study out of Japan is raising questions about the connection between stress levels and migraine attacks. A little background here. Headaches have traditionally been connected to stress. It’s natural that migraine, with the common symptom of headache, has also been connected to stress levels in people’s minds. But in recent years, the connection [...]