The Migraine Relief Center Blog

It’s not easy to explain what it feels like to people who have never dealt with the debilitating pain of a migraine. Often in our society, a person is encouraged to “tough it out”, and the pain dismissed as an excuse. People that experience chronic migraines aren’t just dealing with the physical effects of the condition, but also the social and psychological fallout. Migraine sufferers often have to accept the devastating loss of consistency, or the ability to engage in work, recreational...

In the 21st century, intranasal medications for the treatment of migraines have been increasingly prescribed to certain patients. The intranasal administration of migraine medications is often considered to provide faster and more efficient relief, but a 2004 study by researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York suggests that most patients prefer oral medications when it comes to the reactive or preventative treatment of migraines. Still, there is one peculiar intranasal...

The idea of “dropping acid” or ingesting hallucinogens and psychedelics to treat headaches is not exactly new, but it has been undergoing a resurgence over the last few years. This is a trend related to both medical research as well as to shifts in societal attitudes, and we can credit the ongoing efforts to legislate the medicinal use of marijuana in various jurisdictions across the United States for this renewed interest in psychedelics as therapeutic aids. 

There is absolutely no question that exercise is one of the best therapeutic activities that migraine patients can undertake. Exercise is the most important aspect of a healthy lifestyle, which in turn is known as the best effort that migraine patients can put forth for the purpose of preventing headache episodes. For the majority of migraine patients, prevention is very much attainable through moderate physical fitness.

In the chronicles of the history of medicine, meditation comes before medication. Long before conventional Western medicine and the scientific method became the de facto form of health care, ancient health practitioners relied on the powers of meditation to treat conditions such as migraines.

Ongoing clinical research studies into the causes of migraines and possible treatments are revealing more options for prevention of episodes. The two major pharmaceutical strategies for the migraine condition are abortive and preventative. The former involves the use of medications that can bring quick pain relief when taken before or during a headache episode; the latter focuses on medicinal regimes that can forestall auras and triggers.

Acupuncture, the ancient medicinal discipline that has roots in Asian culture, has been making news headlined in 2014. Hollywood celebrities such as actress Jennifer Anniston and reality television star Kim Kardashian are big fans of acupuncture, and a recent research study published in the Scientific American journal casts a positive light on the discipline as a viable option for the treatment of depression and the side effects from the medication regimes often prescribed to patients who...

The way business is carried out in the pharmaceutical industry has become extremely dynamic. For pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, a multinational company based in England, mergers and acquisitions are no longer attractive. The real money is in offering investors to hold some of the rights to certain medications. Such is the case of Imitrex, a triptan drug often prescribed for the treatment of migraines.