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The betablocker Propranolol or Inderal was the First drug approved by the FDA in 1974 for Migraine Prevention.

How bad, how intense, how frequent do migraines have to be before the doctor recommends a daily preventive drug? Listen and learn.

The new CGRP drugs, like Aimovig, for migraine prevention have worked very well, but there has been a question regarding safety with vascular disease such as stroke, heart attack, or hypertension.  This talk is a review of 2 studies showing that Aimovig is safe for vascular disease.

Amitriptyline is one of the oldest, the cheapest drug for migraine prevention.  It helps the usually chronically sleep deprived Migraine patient...sleep.

Botox gets a lot of press, it gets a lot of attention, but it's actual results for treating Migraine are poor.

This is a talk about the other medical problems associated with having Migraine headaches, the comorbidities.

This talk discusses the things you ought to do live with Migraine headache.

This talk is a list and a discussion of events that may set off a migraine headache.

This is 80-90% of new patients to a headache practice.  It's frequent or daily headaches, usually with migraine features, and due to over treatment with painkillers or migraine medication. 

Well, there really is no "sinus headache" according to the International Classification of Headache.  Sinus headache masquerades as migraine and should be treated as migraine.

Migraine with aura is about 30% of the total migraine experience and usually has a visual aura, like seeing a crystal, zig-zag line, or half of things, before the headache starts.  Aura symptoms may also be numbness on one side of the body, like hand to cheek, or trouble talking. Migraine with aura has a 6% risk of stroke and women with this type of migraine should never take an estrogen pill, pat...

Migraine headaches that come out of the blue after childbirth.

The daily grind in a headache practice is medication overuse headache.  80-90 % of new patients to a headache practice are over treating and have the principal diagnosis of medication overuse headache, usually with underlying migraine.

Cluster headache--the worst chronic headache in the world.

Britt Talley Daniel MD is a neurologist and a headache doctor.  He is member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society.  He has published 2 books on migraine available on Amazon as eBooks and in print.  The books are Migraine and The Mini Neurology Series Volume 1 Migraine. He has a webpage at www.doctormigraine .com and also publishes YouTube videos on migraine under...