How Could You Live Better With Migraine?

Sources:

The Migraine Trust: "Hemiplegic Migraine," "Types of Migraine," "Exercise," "Visiting Your GP."

Mayo Clinic: "Beta Blockers," "Calcium Channel Blockers," "Migraine: Diagnosis and Treatment," "Biofeedback," "Migraine: Symptoms and Causes," "Migraine: Simple Steps to Head Off The Pain."

American Migraine Foundation: "Understanding Migraine Sleep," "Preventive Treatment," "Effects of Exercise on Headaches and Migraines," "Simple Steps to Head Off the Pain," "Nerve Stimulation for Chronic Migraine."

Montefiore Medical Center: "Migraine Diary."

The University of Chicago: "Abdominal Migraine and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome."

Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders: "Management of Vestibular Migraine."

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: "Hemiplegic Migraine."

UpToDate: "Patient education: Migraine headaches in adults (Beyond the Basics)," "Preventative treatment of migraine in adults," "Acute treatment of migraine in adults," "Chronic migraine," "Patient education: Migraine headaches in adults (Beyond the Basics)."

National Health Service (U.K.): "Retinal Migraine."

Michigan Medicine/The University of Michigan: "Migraines: Finding and Avoiding Triggers."

Current Pain Headache Reports: "How Does Fasting Trigger Migraine? A Hypothesis."

National Headache Foundation: "Does Caffeine Trigger or Treat Headaches?" "Talking to Your Headache Care Provider."

Cleveland Clinic: "Caffeine and Headaches: Treatment and Sources."

FamilyDoctor.org: "Migraines."

NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: "Headaches: In Depth."

Migraine.com: "Patient Prescription Assistance Programs: Help Getting Your Medication," "Anticonvulsants and Antiepileptic Drugs," "Calcium Channel Blockers to Prevent Migraine Headaches," "Botox for Chronic Migraine," "Antidepressants for Migraine Headaches," "Narcotic Analgesics."

Annals of Behavioral Medicine: "A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Massage Therapy as a Treatment for Migraine."

American Family Physician: "Migraine Headaches: How to Deal With the Pain."

Fiona Gupta, MD, neurologist, Hackensack University Medical Center.

Simon A. Rego, associate professor of clinical psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York City.

Disability and Rehabilitation: "Migraine -- More Than a Headache: Women's Experiences of Living With Migraine."

British Journal of Pain: "Systematic review of cognitive behavioural therapy for the management of headaches and migraines in adults."

Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: "Migraine Fact Sheet."

Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D., internist,Kona, HI.

Current Pain Headache Reports: "Defining the Differences Between Episodic Migraine and Chronic Migraine."

Neurology: "Reduction in perceived stress as a migraine trigger: testing the 'let-down headache' hypothesis."

Patient: "Medicines to Prevent Migraine Attacks."

Neurology Reviews: "Corticosteroids Reduce the Frequency and Severity of Recurrent Migraine."

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