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Chronic pain, including migraines, can strain even the closest relationships. Learning how to manage migraine headache symptoms without alienating your friends and family is a difficult, but worthwhile, mission that all migraine patients need to learn.  Here are some strategies that will make that task a bit easier to accomplish. Don’t get migraine trigger-happy Migraines […]

    Integrative medicine is beneficial with migraine headaches.  A new twist on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrative medicine takes traditional medicine and incorporates natural ingredients such as herbs and magnesium for migraines. What is integrative medicine? When you combine Western medicine with ancient Chinese therapy, what you end up with is the latest and […]

    Brain drain– it’s a symptom of migraines that you could do without.  Difficulty concentrating, feeling as if your brain is lost in a fog, (hence the other popular term “brain fog”), always feeling tired, and constantly forgetting where you left your keys…fatigue symptoms like brain drain could be caused by migraine headaches, or […]

    Basilar-Type Migraine (BTM) headaches are not your average migraine headache- while many migraines with aura cause symptoms like dizziness, visual distortions, and nausea that can last for 30 minutes, basilar-type migraine attacks come on stronger and more aggressively.  Typical BTM auras include severe vertigo, speech slurring, and impaired walking, lasting up to two […]

    Basilar-Type Migraine (BTM) headaches are not your average migraine headache- while many migraines with aura cause symptoms like dizziness, visual distortions, and nausea that can last for 30 minutes, basilar-type migraine attacks come on stronger and more aggressively.  Typical BTM auras include severe vertigo, speech slurring, and impaired walking, lasting up to two […]