Migraine. Maybe you have to see it to believe it. For a long time visitors have been sharing their art and photos with us (what am I saying? Photos are art!). They are trying to describe some aspect of their migraine attacks visually, so we can understand just a little bit better. I put all [...]
by James on 25 January 2010
We’ve talked a lot about migraine aura – especially visual aura – here in the past. Typically, visual aura hits before an attack of pain in migraine, although sometimes it hits all by itself, and can be quite debilitating in its own right. But what if that visual aura never went away? That’s what does [...]
by James on 8 January 2010
Hanging out on Twitter, I see a lot of talk about "cluster headache". Some people actually know what they’re talking about. But I suspect most do not. Some seem to casually mention that they have a cluster headache today. Some mix up terms completely, saying things like cluster migraine. Or they say they have a [...]
by James on 3 December 2009
This week, try a buckwheat pillow to cool your head. I got my first buckwheat pillow many, many years ago. At times I’ve gone back to a regular pillow, but always return to the buckwheat as quickly as possible. I don’t care that it fills up half of my suitcase when I travel – I [...]
by James on 26 March 2009
I made up this little video to help us think through some of the numbers and percentages we hear in relation to new drugs that are coming out. Sometimes the numbers don’t really mean what they appear to mean on the surface. So, what does that mean for you? What are the chances that this [...]