How to pay for Aimovig? Will insurance cover it? How am I paying for my first dose? These are the questions I got when I posted the delivery date of my Aimovig to Facebook. My insurance isn’t covering it yet (though some insurance companies are),…
gammaCore is an external vagus nerve stimulator that is FDA-approved for treating cluster headache and migraine. To explain what makes the gammaCore work, I have to back up a bit to talk about the vagus nerve. What is the vagus nerve? The vagus nerve is the body’s…
Updated 2/8/18: I have updated information after speaking with a patient education specialist today. What the representative I spoke with Tuesday told me was mostly accurate, but not entirely. I’ve added updates throughout the post. I’m embarrassed by all the changes and apologize for passing…
The gammaCore is an external vagus nerve stimulator that can be used to treat migraine and cluster headache. It received FDA approval for cluster headache last summer and was approved for migraine today. It’s also the new treatment I’ve been using since June 2016 and…
I wrote the following post last May and didn’t post it because I needed to edit it. I still haven’t edited, but finally decided it was more important to post that to have it be finished. May 27, 2017 “I’m so happy to see all…