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Are You a Candidate for Preventive Migraine Treatment?   Managing migraine can make you feel like you need an arsenal of medications at your side. Rescue medications help stop attacks that have already started. However, preventive migraine treatment can help reduce the number and severity of attacks. As part of their personalized treatment plans, options may […]

Ways to make a difference in the lives of those living with migraine There are many ways to be an advocate in the migraine community. In celebration of Migraine and Headache Awareness Month (MHAM), we asked our Move Against Migraine Facebook support group to give insight into how they practice migraine advocacy. Group members shared […]

Understanding how and why migraine symptoms appear on non-headache days could help improve migraine management Many people living with migraine often grapple with the pervasive misconception that their disease is “just a headache.” “Migraine isn’t just a headache disorder,” said Dr. Julianna VanderPluym, a pediatric neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ, “We’re learning […]

American Migraine Foundation Shares Key Insights About the Reality of Migraine Despite the fact that more than one billion people are living with migraine worldwide, it has historically been overlooked as one of the most disabling diseases on the planet. That’s why one of the primary goals of the American Migraine Foundation is to stop […]

The SEEDS mnemonic describes five types of lifestyle changes that can reduce environmental triggers and help manage migraine Making changes to your daily routine, like ensuring you get enough sleep, can help decrease the frequency and severity of migraine attacks. Recent research uses the mnemonic SEEDS to outline five types of lifestyle changes you can […]

How to share your experience and ask for support Talking about migraine isn’t always easy. It’s an invisible disease that often gets misunderstood, minimized, or brushed off. You may worry about being judged at work, not taken seriously by friends, or labeled as unreliable by people who simply don’t understand what living with migraine really […]

Hormones play an important role in many aspects of health—including migraine. For many women and people assigned female at birth, migraine attacks are closely linked to hormonal changes that occur throughout the menstrual cycle. In fact, more than half of women living with migraine report that their attacks are associated with menstruation, and these attacks […]

There are a variety of available cluster headache treatment options that can help provide relief. Cluster headache (CH) is an uncommon type of headache that belongs to a group of headache disorders called the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. While it is one of the most painful headache syndromes, there are cluster headache treatment options available. People […]

Getting to Know the Symptoms & Treatment Options for Cluster Headaches Cluster headache is a relatively rare type of headache. People typically experience short, incapacitating attacks that present on one side of the head around the eye, forehead and temple, says Dr. Stewart Tepper, a neurologist and vice president of external research at at the […]

Cluster headache is one of the most painful headache disorders and can interfere with practically every aspect of a person’s life. A recent study offers insight into this extremely painful disorder. Cluster headache is a primary headache disorder that affects 1 out of every 1,000 people. Cluster headache attacks happen in groups (or “clusters”) that […]