February 20, 2020

A Migraine Revolution! Understanding the New Migraine Therapies

February 20, 2020/ JFR

There is currently occurring nothing short of a revolution in migraine therapeutics. Little had emerged in the way of new migraine medications since onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) became available for the treatment of chronic migraine in 2010. Suddenly, starting with the appearance of erenumab (Aimovig) in May 2018, new therapies for migraine prevention and acute migraine treatment have been dropping in our laps like eggs from an especially ambitious hen.

February 15, 2020

Migraine Myth of the Month

February 15, 2020/ JFR

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.

February 11, 2020

Migraine Treatment of the Month

February 11, 2020/ JFR

With so many new therapies for migraine rapidly becoming available, it was difficult to pick one single therapy to highlight in this issue.

February 07, 2020

Tip of the Month

February 07, 2020/ JFR

Our tips this month are drawn from that article and others in which we have attempted to correct common misconceptions about migraine.

February 03, 2020

Migraine International: Croatia

February 03, 2020/ JFR

The Republic of Croatia is a country of 4 million people that is roughly half the size of Florida. It is bordered to the north by Slovenia and Hungary, Serbia to the east and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the south and beautiful azure waters of the Adriatic Sea to the west.

January 23, 2020

Treatment of Migraine: Acute vs Preventive

January 23, 2020/ JFR

Despite my efforts to ensure that she would understand how to use the medications I’d prescribed, this intelligent and articulate young woman used a medication intended for acute headache treatment as a prevention therapy and medication intended for prevention therapy as an acute treatment. This particular error is by no means uncommon.

January 21, 2020

How Bad are Your Headaches? Assessing Headache Burden

January 21, 2020/ JFR

While any measure of “migraine burden” should include an assessment of headache frequency and severity, when you really think about migraine and the way it influences your quality of life, “migraine burden” is more than merely a function of how often you have a headache and how severe those headaches are.

January 09, 2020

Letter from the Editor

January 09, 2020/ JFR

This is the first issue of Migraineur published since last spring, a pause made necessary by the unprecedented emergence of so many new therapies for headache occurring over such a short period of time.

October 01, 2019

Vestibular Migraine: Where Headache and Dizziness Intersect

October 01, 2019/ JFR

Migraineurs often report experiencing "dizziness" during migraine attacks, but in medical jargon "dizziness" is a highly non-specific symptom. In many cases, the "dizziness" migraineurs describe simply implies they are dehydrated from migraine-associated nausea and vomiting or a general disinterest in taking fluids by mouth.

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