Perspective
Hart: How do you feel now? Kerrie: You know, it’s not too bad. It’s like a hot steel rod is poking through my left temple and out my eyebrow. Hart: Um, not many people could fathom how that description would constitute “not too bad.” My…
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What’s Your Carrot?
Why are you seeking treatment for your migraine or headache disorder? Obviously, you want to reduce the pain, but what else motivates you to find relief? Wanting to be pain free is certainly important, but it’s not enough. The patients whose treatments are most successful…
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Update on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Device Availability
Cerena, the transcranial magnetic stimulation device that the FDA approved in December, is a prototype that will not be made commercially available. Instead, eNeura Therapeutics, the company that created the Cerena, is working on a smaller, more portable, and easier-to-use device, which they anticipate manufacturing…
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Chronic Migraine | Coping | Diet | Treatment
My Improvement is Not a Miracle
“If I believed in miracles, this would qualify as one.” I wrote that last week in reference to how much better I felt on Tolerex. It’s been bugging me ever since. A miracle arrives out of the blue and is conferred by an outside force,…
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Being a Human Guinea Pig and Digging into Clinical Research: Food and Histamine, Mast Cells and Migraine
The treatment approach/information gathering technique I describe below is highly unconventional, but the discoveries it led to were invaluable. I do not recommend that anyone try what I’ve done. If you absolutely have to, only do so under the guidance of a medical professional and…