migraine

If you suffer from migraine, the culprit could be a gene labelled TRPM8 The researchers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5688093/Humans-migrated-50-000-years-ago-genetic-mutation-cold-predisposing-headaches.html This is interesting as I know so many people who claim never to...

I had my third ever migraine attack yesterday. But it was the first time I realised it was a migraine attack. My vision went fuzzy (strange illuminous lines in vision) and quite soon after that suffered from bad headache and nausea. I had to go to bed and sleep. Just a few months ago I had...

Hi All! Haven't posted in a while, and I'm hoping the brilliant minds here can help me out a bit. I've been getting migraines with aura with increasing frequency. My primary care doc is going to send me to a neurologist in a couple months; meanwhile I'm supposed to keep a "headache diary" and...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5301690.stm?ls Pragmatic fallacy? Check Placebo not accounted for? Check Regressive fallacy? Check Testimonial evidence with confirmation bias? Check Change in environmental factors? Check Makes you wonder what the use of the article is really.....

So I was at the gym, and saw a commercial for this migraine relief "GlueStick" (for lack of a better term) that you apply directly to your forehead (red flag #1 went up) to help relieve migraine pain. The happy migraine free woman on the commercial declares it's "all natural" (red flag #2) I...

Has anyone ever heard of this? Christian Body Migraine Defense My normally very intelligent wife suffers occasionally from migraines and became interested in holistic ways to treat it. She says that some of the people that she talked with about migraines said that after years of taking...

I saw an ad for this headache remedy on TV today. According to drugstore.com it has-- Active Ingredients: Blue Flag 12X H.P.U.S. 0.1% (Iris Versicolor - Pain Reliever**), Potassium Dichromate (6X H.P.U.S. 0.03% - Pain Reliever**), White Bryony (12X H.P.U.S. 0.04% - Pain Reliever**) --and the...

I have read reports and watched programmes stating that many people who regularly suffered severe migraines recovered fully after undergoing cosmetic treatment with Botox jabs. Supposedly the deadly Clostridial neurotoxin from which it is made, botulinum toxin (supposedly the most deadly...

Rather than derailing a current thread, I’d like to ask advice about migraines here. Migraines seem to be a common condition and bloody annoying, both as the tension headache and the classic „sick headache“ in which as well as the throbbing pain in your skull you’re puking your guts out...

Here the abstract of a study comparing acupuncture, sumatriptan, and placebo for migraine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12542558&dopt=Abstract How does the fact that they had no sham acupuncture affect the outcome of this study? There is only a...