HeadWise

Did you know that up to 30% of people with migraine also have fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a disorder known to cause pain throughout the body, fatigue, and issues with sleep, memory, and mood. Tune in to this week's episode of HeadWise as host Lindsay Weitzel, Phd asks headache specialist Vince Martin, MD why these two disorders occur together, how best to treat them, which doctors to see, and more.

Have you ever been told you should not use oral contraceptives because you have migraine? Are you frustrated because you need oral contraceptives for medical reasons but you are concerned about the stroke risk associated with estrogen in women who have a history of migraine? Tune in to this episode of HeadWise as host Lindsay Weitzel, PhD asks headache specialist Hope O'Brien, MD to address all the difficult and controversial dilemmas surrounding oral contraceptives and migraine.

Tune in to learn the answers to these questions from the brand new studies presented in this month's episode of HeadWise News with host Lindsay Weitzel, PhD and headache specialist Tim Smith, MD. • Do you experience pain, photosensitivity, redness, or other eye symptoms with your migraine attacks and find it hard to believe that nothing is physically occurring in your eye? A recent study found some interesting changes in the eye during a migraine attack. • What is the long-term effectiveness of occipital nerve stimulation for people with chronic cluster headache? • What is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and what does it do for people with migraine? • How important is "number of monthly headache days" in determining quality of life? How is this impacted by things like depression, anxiety, and allodynia? The answer might surprise you - tune in!

The National Headache Foundation presents the second episode of Heads Up. Dr. Lindsay Weitzel interviews Dr. Robert Shapiro about Headache on the Hill.

New Daily Persistent Headache (NDPH) is a daily, unremitting headache that comes on very suddenly. NDPH can be a particularly frustrating headache disorder as it is characteristically difficult to treat. It is also a rare headache classification that we know very little about. Alan Kaplan, Founder and President of NDPHaware is working to help us learn more. Listen as Alan and Dr. Mark Burish, board certified Neurologist and headache specialist, chat with Lindsay Weitzel, PhD about all things related to NDPH. Together Alan and Dr. Burish are not only educating us about NDPH, but they have released a survey so that we can learn more about this frustrating condition. If you have been diagnosed with NDPH please go to https://ndphaware.org/survey/ to take a survey to help us learn more."

Episode 168: Parenting with Migraine is a challenge particularly during the holidays with so many triggers, busy schedules, and family gatherings. Marina Medved-Lentini is the founder of the blog and social media group Parenting with Migraine. Listen in as we learn about her tips for parenting through migraine attacks and for taking care of children who have migraine. Follow Marina! Website: https://parentingwithmigraine.com Instagram: http://tinyurl.com/yyzesz45

It's Summer! What about summertime can increase the frequency and severity of migraine and other types of head pain? What can we do about it? Lindsay Weitzel, PhD, chats with one of our favorite guests - Dawn Buse, PhD, a clinical psychologist specializing in headache, about some newly released data on migraine and weather. Plus, some tips on summer travel, ""surprisal,"" kids and summer migraine tips and more!"

In this month's HeadWise Monthly News Episode (June 2023) Lindsay Weitzel, PhD and headache specialist/clinical trials expert Tim Smith, MD cover four new data alerts plus something lighter-hearted for summer! What were the results of the first published head-to-head comparison of Emgality, Ajovy, and Aimovig? Do we need more studies like this? What does the latest data tell us about the possibility of taking Ubrelvy during the PRODROME phase? What are the details of the latest FDA clearance for the Nerivio device? Is there a role for intranasal ketamine in the treatment of refractory chronic migraine? What did the latest study on weather and migraine tell us?"

Ketamine, it's a controversial topic, but we hear about it in the migraine community when someone is intractable and not responding to other medications. Lindsay Weitzel, PhD asks headache specialist Fred Cohen, MD all about why ketamine is so controversial, how it works, what the side effects are, how it is administered, to whom, and why.

This month's HeadWise News episode has lots of new headache and migraine data! • Is there an association between "growing pains" in childhood and future migraine? • Are certain people with migraine at higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease? • What new genetic associations have been found in cluster headache? • Does cortical spreading depolarization cause migraine? • Should certain people wait longer before giving up on CGRP medications?