Category: Treatment
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Humming the pain away
The vagus nerve runs from your brain, behind your ears and down to your stomach. It helps your nervous system move between ‘fight and flight’ mode and ‘rest and digest’. In an attempt to reduce chronic pain, anxiety, or even just give yourself a lift on those days when you’re…
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Metabolic migraines
Ugh – I suppose that a blog writer who writes about migraines is going to have to expect to get a migraine from time to time. But I’m back – it’s 2.30pm in Australia and now that I’m up and at it, I thought I’d send you some notes I…
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Pet therapy for migraines
This post is about ‘pets for migraines’ – as opposed to ‘pets with migraines’ – which is really too terrible to think about… Although if you do think about it, it makes you wonder what specifically it is about the human brain that sets us apart from animals. Perhaps one…
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Finding migraine relief
The Migraine World Summit is almost over, but there’s a few more hours left of their good information. I’ll definitely be back next year to listen again. Yesterday’s presentation was by headache specialist, neurologist and founder of Migraine Quebec, Dr Elizabeth Leroux. The contents of her interview are simplified, and…
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The future of migraine research
In another instalment from the Migraine World Summit, (which is still accessible if you want to watch), Dr Walter Koroshetz, director of neurology disorders (NINDS) in the United Sates, was asked about the future of migraine research. The interview stretched my pain-brain a tad, and there was a lot of…
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Controlling chronic migraine
The Migraine Summit is currently underway, and I’ve watched 2 of the first 4 sessions available. So far, I’ve been impressed with the quality of the speakers and the material they cover in the 30-minute sessions. There’s enough material in each session to make a blog post, but I won’t…
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Buddhism, nasal sprays and AI blog crawlers
This morning was a strange morning, made up of two negatives and a positive. I set off early to get ahead of the rush at the local Medical Centre, intent on getting a script for a nasal spray version of my migraine abortive. After waiting forty minutes to see the…
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Migraine terminology (words matter… mostly)
The other day on Twitter-X, I saw a post that essentially read “I’m 50 years old and I’ll go to my grave using two spaces after a full-stop.” The replies varied from “preach brother” and “I’ll die on that hill with you”, through to “do what you want – editors…
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Migraines – as advertised
My intention was to write a completely different post today, something about why words matter and how the terminology around migraine care is changing. I’ll get there. Instead, I opened up my web browser and saw an ad from an overseas online store that sells everything you could imagine for…
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