In a recent study of more than 1,000 women with headache, those with chronic headache were four times more likely to report symptoms of major depression than women whose headaches are episodic. Chronic headache sufferers were also three times more likely to report other headache-related…
Harvard Medical School researchers have found brain changes in patients with migraine. For a more accessible article about the study, read The Migrainous Brain: What You See Is Not All You Get? by Peter Goadsby of the Institute of Neurology. I fear this more than…
The night-striking migraines continue. I’ve had one every night since my last post on them — I’m up to 10 of 11 nights. Since Thursday, the pain has been controlling my days too. I woke up 40 minutes ago and my pain is at a…
That’s what a New York Times article from yesterday says about migraine! (That’s right, the New York Times.) The article begins, “Everything you thought you knew about migraine headaches — except that they are among the worst nonfatal afflictions of humankind — may be wrong….
Yesterday an 18-year-old woman named Sarah Burgoon died in a car accident that her mother believes may have been caused by loss of sight during a migraine. How very, very sad. My heart goes out to her family.