Migraine Myth of the Month: If your headaches are becoming worse, different or both... you need an MRI scan!
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To address this myth it helps to have evaluated thousands of migraine patients over a period of three decades…
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Migraine Myth of the Month: Migraine Always Improves During Pregnancy
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As with all matters migraine, the problematic word in the title of this month’s myth is “Always”. It can never be emphasized enough…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month Revisited: Female migraineurs are hyposexual
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In the Summer 2023 issue we presented data from research recently conducted by this editor and his colleagues that appeared to contradict the proposition that females with migraine are deficient in libido.
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Never use an oral and injectable triptan on the same day
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How this particular myth ever gained traction is something of a mystery, but a persistent myth it is…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Females with migraine have little interest in sex
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However the notion initially arose and for whatever conflation of reasons, misogynistic or otherwise, there persists in America a prevailing cultural trope that females are prone to using headache as an excuse to avoid engaging in sexual intercourse…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: If you don’t have a family history of migraine, then you don’t have migraine.
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If, as estimated, roughly 40 million Americans have migraine, then almost 300 million don’t…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Migraine always vanishes following menopause
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Sounds good. And quite reasonable. After all, between the ages of 15 and 45 migraine is roughly 3 times…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Elimination of migraine triggers is highly effective in reducing migraine burden
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Well, yes…but also no. Often helpful, definitely. But “highly effective”, not so much…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: The triptans are potentially dangerous drugs
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The first “designer drug” for migraine treatment, injectable sumatriptan (Imitrex), was approved by the FDA for general clinical use in this country in 1992…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Every Migraineur Needs to See a Healthcare Provider?
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For a number of reasons I’ve long have had a problem reading papers published in the medical literature…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month
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Patients often report that along with migraine they experience “eight other types of headache”. Most often, what they are confirming is that the clinical manifestations of migraine range along a spectrum
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: It’s migraine only if you have an aura, etc.
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Amongst healthcare providers, headache patients and the general population there is a common misunderstanding…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Are your daily headaches a sign of a brain tumor?
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If your headaches always occur on the same side of your head, there is a very good possibility that you have a brain tumor or another serious cause for your headaches.
Migraine Myths of the Month: Debunking 10 of the Most Common
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Rather than focus on one particular myth, we decided to start off 2021 in style and tackle 10(!) common myths.
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Migraine Myth of the Month
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If you have a history of migraine and experience a change in the character or frequency of your headaches, you should be concerned that you have developed a brain tumor or another serious neurologic disorder.
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Migraine Diagnosis Requires a Brain Imaging Study
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Many patients presenting to a medical provider for evaluation of migraine become uneasy - even angry - when that provider fails to order a brain CT or MRI scan. Understandably convinced that "there must be something wrong with my brain to cause this terrible pain", they worry that a brain tumor, aneurysm or some similarly serious structural abnormality will be missed unless a scan is performed.
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