Category: Symptoms
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Daily persistent headaches
Today’s post is a summary of another fascinating interview from the World Migraine Summit, this time with Dr Andrew Hershey, a director of neurology at University of Cincinnati. This presentation on ‘new daily persistent headaches’ revealed (again) that headaches and migraines are complex critters (my word not theirs). There were…
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Migraine and neck pain
OK, so this is one of the last posts from the notes that I took during the Migraine World Summit that took place at the beginning of 2024. This summary is of the presentation by Dr Rashmi Singh, a professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. It was…
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Hypnic jerks… um.
OK, so that title looks a lot like ‘hippy jerks’ or something possibly ruder, but ‘hypnic jerks’ ARE a real thing… + Ever twitched violently while you were resting in bed? + Perhaps your leg or arm suddenly jerked in your sleep – so much so that you woke yourself…
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Hysterectomies and migraines
You may or may not know that The Mindful Migraine Blog has a CONTACT page that you can use to send me an email – you can ask a question or just say “Hi!” About two weeks ago, I received three emails back-to-back. The first was from a musician asking…
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Headaches that start behind the eye
In my continuing summary of some of the Migraine World Summit presentations (back in early 2024), today’s blog post is about the presentation by neuro-ophthalmologist Deboah Friedman from Dallas, USA. She listed a huge number of conditions in which pain can occur behind the eye. The main take away was…
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Menopause and migraines
Heads up team: today’s post is a summary of notes from the wonderful and ever-giving Migraine World Summit, from the presentation by Dr Christine Lay, a professor of Neurology in Toronto. It refers to menstruation – frequently – so feel free to give it a miss if it’s not for…
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Mouthguards for migraines
In the worst migraine I have ever had, the pain was so bad that I broke three of my own teeth. (I’m not sure why I wrote it like that – who else’s teeth would I break – and how?!) Not long after the major migraine attack, when I was…
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A letter to neurologists
Dear neurologist, I am writing this letter to you so that you might better understand our relationship and the emotions that I am experiencing when we meet. I know that you see hundreds of patients each year, but you are the only neurologist that I have met. I might have…
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Trauma and migraine
Dr Aimie Apigian was interviewed about trauma for the series of interviews held at the 2024 Migraine World Summit. I made a promise to myself when I started this blog at the beginning of the year that I would not post content that I felt might be triggering to myself…
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