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    There’s a growing interest in using supplemental vitamins to help headaches among migraine sufferers, and for good reason. Over the years, scientists have found convincing proof that supplementing with vitamin B2, magnesium, Coenzyme Q10, and butterbur yields substantially high results in migraine efficacy, while also sustaining optimum neurological and vascular health. Listed are […]

    If you suffer from chronic migraines, then you understand the need to stick to a strict sleep schedule. But getting enough sleep at night is one of the hardest pieces of advice to follow; how are you supposed to get any shut-eye when you’ve got a blinding headache and nausea, to boot? Here […]

To prevent migraines, it’s helpful to include natural migraine treatments into your daily life, in addition to consulting in a naturopathic doctor who specializes in chronic migraines. An osteopath is one such alternative medicine practitioner who can provide amazing results in a few office visits. What is osteopathy? Many migraine headaches are triggered or worsened […]

    Visual disturbances are common symptoms of migraines with aura, a type of migraine that affects approximately one third of all migraine sufferers. Bright flashing lights, tunnel vision, and blind spots occur prior to and during a visual migraine attack, in addition to stroke-like symptoms. Below are some typical types of visual disturbances that […]

    Do small amounts of beer, wine, or alcohol mixers cause migraines, and are you sure? The science regarding alcohol and its triggering effect on migraines is not always clear cut. A drink of whiskey can either trigger a migraine, or it may relieve it, depending on your migraine type. Just as certain foods […]

Abdominal migraines are “migraine equivalent” symptoms that don’t include headaches, but rather cause intense stomach pain. For many, that “aha” moment when you realize you’ve been suffering from abdominal migraines all along, albeit without crushing headaches, often occurs later than usual. When we think of migraines most of us think of headaches – pain that […]

    Acupuncture is a collection of procedures involving placing fine needles at specific points on the body’s surface to stimulate certain points on the body, followed by gentle manual or electrical stimulation of the needles.  The needles are said to relax the nervous system around central pain pathways and promote the release of endorphins, […]

    A migraine attack by any other name is still a migraine, so why use terms like migraine equivalent to describe migraine attacks that don’t involve headaches? Listed are some migraine equivalent neuropathy symptoms. Migraines are relative. Literally. Migraines are a neurological disorder, and crippling headaches that can last for days are the most […]

    Migraine with aura could be linked with brain damage, according to an analysis of 19 medical studies which was just released. Screaming headaches, nausea, and extreme light sensitivity typical of chronic migraines with aura often occur in people with minor brain damage in the pain-sensitive white-matter areas, as observed in MRI brain scans […]

    Statistically, more women than men have migraines.  However, those statistics might be skewed.  There is increasing evidence that most men tend not to seek advice from headache experts about their migraines, and thus remain undiagnosed. So there may be many more male migraine sufferers out there than we realize, suffering silently. Man-graines are […]