Migraine Tip of the Month: Avoiding “Botox failure”
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For reasons often not obvious or perhaps not even identifiable, a patient’s migraine prevention therapy that has proven to be beneficial…
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From the Patient’s Perspective: Pain
/The editorial office was fortunate to receive the poem that follows from a particularly articulate and insightful migraineur and scientist, Dr. Ena Bromley
Read MoreDoctor on Call: Migraine therapy during pregnancy
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Olivia, a 31-year-old environmental scientist who lives in Kensington, Maryland, writes…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor
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In my editorial for the last issue of this magazine, published shortly after the atrocities of October 7, I expressed my support for the Israeli survivors…
Read MoreMigraine International: South Africa
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In past issues of this magazine we have explored how the epidemiology and management of migraine may differ in other nations when compared with the United States…
Read MoreFrom the Patient’s Perspective: The Migraine Experience
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Headache is like the dread windstorm
No one knows its course
No one knows its full time or its bond.
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month Revisited: Female migraineurs are hyposexual
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In the Summer 2023 issue we presented data from research recently conducted by this editor and his colleagues that appeared to contradict the proposition that females with migraine are deficient in libido.
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Never use an oral and injectable triptan on the same day
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How this particular myth ever gained traction is something of a mystery, but a persistent myth it is…
Read MoreMigraine Treatments of the Month: The Oral Triptans
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Ever since injectable sumatriptan was approved for use in the US…
Read MoreDoctor on Call: Why don’t the treatments work for me?
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Melissa, a 32-year-old accountant who lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina, writes…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor
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I was in the process of completing this issue of Migraineur when I first learned of the horrific events that were occurring in southern Israel…
Read MorePreemptive Therapy for Acute Migraine Headache: Treatment during the “prodrome”
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As was discussed in a previous issue, a compleat migraine episode, one that produces all the courses from soup to nuts, includes…
Read MoreMigraine Prevention Therapy: How long is “long enough”?
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You’ve had migraine for years, but until recently it was never really that much of a problem…
Read MoreMigraine Myth of the Month: Females with migraine have little interest in sex
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However the notion initially arose and for whatever conflation of reasons, misogynistic or otherwise, there persists in America a prevailing cultural trope that females are prone to using headache as an excuse to avoid engaging in sexual intercourse…
Read MoreMigraine Tip of the Month: Ask, and ye shall receive
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After the more complex management recommendations we have made in this “Tip of the Month” section over the years this tip may seem pretty simple. But here it goes…
Read MoreMigraine Treatments of the Month: Topiramate
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Examined through the lens of the historical development of therapies for migraine, topiramate is a particularly interesting drug...
Read MoreDoctor on Call
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Amelia, a 25-year-old administrative assistant who lives in Philadelphia writes…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor
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In 2016, when we first conceived of publishing an “educational, but entertaining” magazine for the 12%…
Read MoreMigraine and Sexuality: Are Migraine and Libido Linked?
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When it comes to sexual desire and performance, migraineurs - specifically female migraineurs - have long been getting a bad rap…
Read MoreMigraine Triggers and Aggravators: Flipping the ‘On’ Switch
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“You’re a neurologist,” he demanded. “Tell me why I never have a headache when I’m working 20 hour days, but then almost every vacation we go on is ruined because I have a horrible migraine for the entire time.”
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