Headache and Migraine News Highlights from the past 3 Months (December 2021 edition)

One more quick summary of recent highlights, and then we’ll do the year-end version! Here are the four most popular posts from the past 3 months, with a bonus popular post from earlier.

• Headache: Is Your Eye Twitching? – Have you ever wondered if a “twitching eye” is related to your headache symptoms? Well, researchers have wondered the same thing.
• A Natural Alternative to Sumatriptan? (Your Questions) – It may surprise many people that there are excellent, often well-studied alternatives to medications. Many people still assume that a “natural alternative” is going to be inferior. But that may not be the case at all.
• PEA Supplements for Migraine? – Supplements don’t tend to have the rigorous and expensive testing behind them that drugs have, but there is a growing interest in PEA, or palmitoylethanolamide, for migraine pain.
• Men and Migraine: Relationships, Work, and Depression – Every once in a while you still come across material that basically considers migraine to be a “women’s disease”. But a recent survey from The Migraine Trust reminds us once again that migraine has a huge impact on the lives of many men.
• BONUS – DHE Migraine Treatment: Why some people still use it – 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.