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Botox vs Topamax by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches A blinded study comparing Botox with Topamax for the prevention of migraine headaches was conducted by Drs. Jaffri and Mathew and published in the current issue of Headache. ... Read on »

Headache Relief iPhone app by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Headache Relief is a new iPhone app which I developed to help patients better manage their headaches. The main feature of the app is a headache diary. A summary of all your ... Read on »

Botox for nerve pain by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Botox appears to be effective for peripheral nerve pain according to a study by French researchers. This finding is consistent with my observation that injecting Botox into t ... Read on »

Needle-free injection of sumatriptan by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Needle-free injection of sumatriptan (Imitrex) was tested for its ease of use and for its bioequivalence in a study led by Dr. Jan Brandes. The new device that provides needl ... Read on »

Dr. Oz promotes magnesium for headaches by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Dr. Oz: Like Alexander Mauskop, I believe that magnesium can help—it relaxes arteries and muscles in the body, both of which can help with headaches. This statement in ... Read on »

Botox for occipital neuralgia by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Botox can relieve pain of occipital neuralgia, according to a pilot study by neurologists in Ohio, published in Headache. Occipital neuralgia is a painful condition that mani ... Read on »

What to do about severe aura symptoms by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Some migraine patients are more disturbed and disabled by migraine aura symptoms than by the headache itself. Some people do not even have pain but only auras. In the majori ... Read on »

New treatment for migraines is effective in a Phase III trial by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches A new treatment for migraines is very effective and well tolerated, according to a paper published in Neurology. Two years ago I mentioned on this blog that this new migraine ... Read on »

Botox is proven to help chronic migraine by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Two large trials of Botox provide unequivocal proof of its efficacy in the treatment of chronic migraine headaches. The results of these two double-blind, placebo-controlled ... Read on »

Allergy tests and migraine by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Migraine headaches are more frequent in people who suffer from allergic rhinitis and who have more than 10 positive skin allergy tests. This finding by Dr. Martin and his col ... Read on »

Facial neuralgia and vitamin B12 deficiency by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamine) deficiency is known to cause a wide variety of neurological symptoms. It also seems to produce facial neuralgia, according to a report presente ... Read on »

Multiple sclerosis and migraines by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Migraine headaches are three times more common in patients with multiple sclerosis than in people of similar age and gender without MS. Ilya Kister and his colleagues at NYU ... Read on »

Severe migrainous vertigo responds to steroids by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Migrainous vertigo seems to respond to intravenous infusion of a high dose of corticosteroids, according to a report in the latest issue of Headache by a group of Indian docto ... Read on »

Another blood pressure medicine shown to prevent migraine by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches A blood pressure medication telmisartan (Micardis) was shown to be effective in the prevention of migraine headaches by a group of German researchers led by H-C Diener. Sever ... Read on »

Vertigo and migraine by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Vertigo can induce a migraine attack in migraine sufferers, according to a study published in Neurology. In this study researchers induced vertigo in patients who had a histo ... Read on »

Chronic daily headaches in adolescents by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Good news for adolescents with chronic daily headaches (CDH) was reported by Taiwanese researchers followed 122 kids, aged 12 to 14 who were diagnosed with this condition. A ... Read on »

Surgery for migraines - an update by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches In my post 2 years ago I wrote about surgery for migraines and the many reasons why Botox injections is a better option than surgery to permanently cut nerves and muscles. I ... Read on »

Homocysteine and migraine by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches High homocysteine levels increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (strokes and heart attacks) and can be reduced by folic acid and vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamine). A study ... Read on »

Weight and migraine treatment by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Medications used for the preventive treatment of migraine headaches can cause weight loss, but more often cause weight gain. An interesting study by Dr. Bigal and his colleag ... Read on »

Another option for trigeminal neuralgia by Dr. Alexander Mauskop Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Migraine & Headaches Trigeminal neuralgia is an extremely painful condition which causes severe electric shock-like pain in one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve. The 3 branches are mandib ... Read on »

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