Category: Triggers
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Acupuncture for migraines
About five years ago, a friend recommended I try acupuncture for my migraines. I have mixed feelings about (un)solicited advice. On the one hand, I’m open-minded, keen to get better, and curious to learn about my options. On the other hand, I’ve had more than my fair share of advice…
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Migraine Biomarkers
The next instalment from my file notes from the ever-giving 2024 Migraine World Summit is a discussion on whether increased knowledge about biomarkers could improve migraine diagnosis. Dr Patricia Pozo-Rosich, the head of neurology at a Spanish institute was interviewed, and the short answer to the hypothesized question is yes……
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Having a migraine on TV
I want to add to my series of blog posts the occasional post about other people and how migraine effects their lives. The first in this series comes from an event I remember from 13 years ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long!). A reporter named Serene Branson was…
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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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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 and car crashes
In Australia, you can get your Learners License when you turn 16, and then sit a driving test for your Provisional License when you are 17. When I went for my driving test (decades ago), my examiner told me that I had done everything right and broken no laws, but…
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Migraines in The Matrix
Sometimes it can feel like you’re living in an alternate reality to everyone else, like the movie The Matrix. This is not, however, the sort of Matrix I want to talk about today. There will be no advice on how to bend spoonies, for example. (As an aside – if…
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Eye masks and migraines
Eye masks are possibly our most humble defense against migraine pain. I suspect they’re probably our oldest too. It’s not hard to imagine everyone from a caveman, to a Roman gladiator and a medieval babe in a beribboned cone-hat with an arm thrown across their face to keep the sun…
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Nasal sprays for migraines
My general practitioner recently advised me that I could switch the abortive medication that I take for migraines when they are happening, from a tablet that I swallow to a nasal spray. She said the medicine works faster because it goes straight into your bloodstream through the blood vessels in…
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