Search results for query: migraine

  1. Eddie

    Brain FADE syndrome: the final common pathway of chronic inflammation in neurological disease, 2024, Khalid A. Hanafy

    ...we haven't had the tools to image what glial cells are doing in humans with any decent resolution? There are certainly some conditions like migraine, schizophrenia and depression that have some brain pathology that we have historically struggled to image. Surely more specific PET tracers...
  2. Dolphin

    The Complex Disorders Alliance (CODA) formerly The Metrodora Foundation

    ...infection, surgery, injury or hormone change, these conditions include Long-Covid, ME/CFS, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Migraine and other pain-related conditions, Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Sjögrens Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)...
  3. B

    What can we learn from the Post Office scandal publicity (including TV)?

    Having said that I've just been watching SKy news and they had some sub-postmasters on there telling their stories. Very moving about what happened to them and most having to stop part way through telling things because of the hurt. Important coverage. One gentleman has just mentioned the...
  4. B

    What can we learn from the Post Office scandal publicity (including TV)?

    ...tried and tested part is whether it 'hammers in the messages' and not 'are the messages harmful or helpful'. LIke someone claiming their new migraine medication is really effective because it uses the same spray in the cheek method as the vitamins do, which bypasses the gut or whatever. And...
  5. SunnyK

    Post-Exertional Malaise - a discussion including defining and measuring PEM

    ...more like 10. What I feel on days when I think I can sit upright without it immediately being too much is that, after a while, my chest gets tight and I also get the sensation in my chest I described above. I have a mild migraine today, but generally head symptoms just come with screen time.
  6. Nightsong

    Development and measurement properties of the PEM/PESE activity questionnaire (PAQ), 2023, Davenport et al

    ...other severity scales that I have seen. 3) Some of the symptoms aren't really symptoms at all but other medical conditions, for instance: Migraine and tension-type headache are very different disorders and both are common in the general population, TTH vastly more so than migraine. (I've...
  7. Peter T

    New Alcohol Sensitivity in Patients With Post-acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 PASC: A Case Series, 2023, Eastin, Bonila et al.

    ...to different types of alcohol, for example the only time I had a rash over much of my torso followed a glass of red wine, but then I had a migraine a couple of hours after a bottle of wheat beer (or was this a gluten reaction)?), whereas a glass of white wine may just add to the fatiguing...
  8. mango

    Open Emotion-focused digital interventions for patients with medically unexplained symptoms, Maroti et al

    There was an ad in the newspaper DN.se today, inviting people to apply to participate in this study by Swedish BPS proponents Daniel Maroti et al (who are also running the MBS study). Not a recommendation, obvs. Känslofokuserade digitala interventioner för patienter med medicinskt oförklarade...
  9. R

    Post-Exertional Malaise - a discussion including defining and measuring PEM

    ...and sarcoid patients suggesting common mechanisms at some level perhaps. Perhaps the brain is not the only "traitor"? Is it possible that build up phenomena are involved as in epilepsy or migraine (at least in cases where there is a clear and swift decline from higher functioning to marked PEM??
  10. Andy

    Review Functional Somatic Syndromes Are Associated With Varied Postoperative Outcomes and Increased Opioid Use After Spine Surgery: 2023 Masood et al

    ...opioid use after these procedures." "The total number of subjects was 40,011. All 7 studies assessed fibromyalgia, 2 studies assessed migraines, and no studies assessed IBS, interstitial cystitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, or multiple chemical sensitivity. Determination of fibromyalgia was...
  11. Joan Crawford

    Neuroimaging in Functional Neurological Disorder: State of the Field and Research Agenda, 2021, Perez, Carson, Edwards, Hallet, Stone et al

    That's sad and shocking re migraine being diagnosed as FND. The underlying processes of migraine are understood now, and can be treaed with monoclonal antibody therapy. For neurologists to not know about this revolution in treatment for migraine is pretty gobsmacking. Something has gone...
  12. L

    Neuroimaging in Functional Neurological Disorder: State of the Field and Research Agenda, 2021, Perez, Carson, Edwards, Hallet, Stone et al

    ...and Mass General is considered a leader in all kinds of things. And so a young woman I met who was diagnosed with FND when she was having a migraine headache. My experiences trying to get medical care especially after being tagged with the scarlet F. I would lay odds if you could get a...
  13. Kalliope

    The Mind-Body Syndrome Study (2019) Maroti et al

    Here's from the presentation of the syndrome: An exclusion criteria is if your physical symptoms are related to a medical condition..
  14. lunarainbows

    Vagus Nerve Stimulation

    I haven’t had any amazing results. It’s helped my cluster headache a little - maybe 15 to 20%, so far no improvement in migraine, or in any other symptoms. I don’t do it frequently enough though, and sometimes even skip days - because the vagus nerve stimulation device is causing me pain! You’re...
  15. Sasha

    Vagus Nerve Stimulation

    Hi @lunarainbows - just wondering how you got on with this?
  16. Sly Saint

    Review Effects of traditional Chinese exercise on sleep quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials 2023 Liu et al

    ...quality. However, there was no significant improvement in stroke patients, breast cancer patients, normal college students, and episodic migraine patients. Tai Chi had greater effects in improving sleep quality than Qigong. In addition, the participants practice site, duration, and age did...
  17. boolybooly

    Post COVID Migraine in a Six Day Cycle

    ...some good news subsequent to a helpful development in my management of my condition based on an observation of one cycle where I had no migraine pain. I checked my food diary, replicated the cycle and then deduced and verified that taking a dose of lysine just before or during the migraine...
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