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    If you want to lose weight, then you need to write in a food diary.  Likewise, if you want to lose migraine headaches, then you need to keep a migraine headache diary.  It’s no joke- Writing in a migraine journal is an effective way of tracking your migraine symptoms, determining your migraine triggers, […]

    Magnesium is a popular natural ingredient for migraines and pain, and is also good for your heart, muscles, nerves, immune system, and for boosting stamina. How much magnesium do you need? A healthy adult requires anywhere between 310 and 420 milligrams of magnesium per day, according to the RDA.  However, certain people require […]

    How far would you go to get rid of a migraine attack– not just a headache, but rather a weeklong gut-turning, head-pounding assault of migraine headaches?  In prehistoric times, migraine patients resorted to drastic means like trepanation to relieve migraine symptoms.  Today, a startling percentage of migraine patients have either contemplated suicide… or […]

    Did you know that you could keep track of Migraines on your iPhone…that you can make our own custom migraine symptoms app for your iPad?  It’s true!  With very little technical know-how, you can tweak your favorite Apple device to remind you when to take your migraine medications, find the nearest pharmacy in […]

    Millions of people around the world suffer from excruciating chronic headaches; migraines, tension headaches, and cluster headaches cause stabbing head pain, nausea, vomiting, stroke-like symptoms, and extreme hypersensitivity to lights, sounds, and scents.  Why then are so many people ignorant to the agony felt by fellow coworkers, friends, teachers, and parents who suffer […]

    If you’ve tried every other migraine remedy to relieve crushing migraine headaches with no success, maybe it’s time you tried remedies for ADHD.  According to recent findings, an unusually high correlation exists between migraine disorder and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD- It’s not just for kids anymore In a new approach […]

    Migraine headaches are excruciatingly painful, exhausting, and scary, but almost worse than the head pain and nausea of migraine disorder is the inevitable sense of isolation– the feeling that you are alone, adrift on a raft amidst a sea of tumultuous waves of pain.  Social isolation is common in chronic pain illness, but […]

    If you’ve ever fantasized about drilling a hole in your head to get rid of migraine symptoms, know that you are not alone, and that you are not the first.  Since prehistoric times, migraine attacks have caused immense agony, driving sufferers to try shocking, and often dangerous, experiments to end the constant nausea, […]

    Darkness rules the den of a migraine sufferer- no bright lights or glaring television screens here.  Shades and curtains are pulled down, bed is unmade, and the sign on the door warns, “Migraineur’s lair- Enter if you dare.” No, light is no friend of mine when a migraine headache strikes.  Take me to […]

    Migraine art exhibits are hard to watch; sometimes gruesome, always disturbing migraine art portrayals of migraine symptoms like migraine aura, excruciating migraine headaches, and stomach-clenching nausea allow migraineurs to give skeptics a glimpse into their struggles with chronic pain. Migraine stigma affects everybody “If only you could see what migraines feel like, you […]