Quiet agony: Living with 50 migraines a year

Being in the grip of a migraine feels like a hammer is pounding away inside your eyeball. The world becomes almost threatening: The lowest light feels like a strobe; the gentlest sound is as grating as a jackhammer. When you’re in the throes of an attack, all you want is to lie down alone in a dark room and suffer in silence.

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Readers share horror stories of holiday travel

For many people around the nation, the weather outside truly is frightful.

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Allergan touts Botox promise as headache treatment

Shares of Allergan Inc. jumped Thursday after the drugmaker reported that its antiwrinkle injection Botox may help relieve migraine headaches.

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Pile Drivers Irk Students During Finals

If College of Charleston students are getting headaches these days, it's not from studying the Treaty of Utrecht or Planck's constant for finals. The constant they have to deal with is the metallic clang of a pile driver sinking columns for a new campus building.

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Wow this story has it all! Finally a medical reason to avoid sex when you have a headache, C.R.S. syndrome isn't just about getting older its also about getting older and having strenuous or orgasmic sex, and sadly she doesn't even remember the orgasm (sigh).

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Can Stress Really Harm You?

Stress affects everyone to some degree, but severe stress is a feeling of being unable to cope and is a reaction to excessive demands and pressures made upon the individual. It is most likely to be maintained by a feeling of personal rejection, insignificance and worthlessness.

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A study by American and Icelandic researchers has found that migraine headaches may cause long-term damage to women's brains.

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"She didn't go to the doctor at all, then after she got the shots, it's boom, boom, boom," Holtman said.

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Excerpt: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM-- More than 125,000 crashes were caused last year by motorists with colds and flu, as new scientific research reveals the serious impact of driver illness on accident rates(2).

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Traditional acupuncture is effective at preventing headaches, a scientific review finds - but so is a sham form. The Cochrane Review reviewed 33 separate trials into acupuncture and its so-called "sham" counterpart.

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Just because diet soda is low in calories doesn't mean it can't lead to weight gain.

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Excerpt: A cold can sometimes linger, but a stuffy nose and headache that just won't quit after two weeks may be sinusitis, a potentially serious infection.

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PESCARA, Italy, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Pycnogenol, an extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduces jet lag in passengers by nearly 50 percent, Italian researcher said.

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A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman's lawsuit claiming L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products.

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People suffering from excruciating migraine headaches often get misdiagnosed or told that they just have to deal with it. In their new book, "The Migraine Brain," Dr. Carolyn Bernstein and Elaine McArdle explore what causes the disorder. An excerpt.

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"Madalyn Byrne, 19, was taking as many as nine Tylenol per day for several weeks. She died Monday at Integris Baptist Medical Center of liver damage and cardiac arrest after her roommate found her sick Sunday morning."

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Hypnosis has been touted as a tool to help treat pain, depression, anxiety, phobias, bad habits (like nail biting), smoking and weight gain.

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I have had migraines for most of my life; the first attack I remember occurred when I was 3 or 4 years old. I was playing in the garden when a brilliant, shimmering light appeared to my left — dazzlingly bright, almost as bright as the sun.

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I am a migraineur. I use the noun with care, because after a lifetime of headaches, I have come to think of migraines as a part of me, not as some force or plague that infects my body. Chronic headaches are my fate, and I have adopted a position of philosophical resignation.

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Surprising triggers that cause headaches-and how to fix them

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A revolutionary contraceptive patch which does not disrupt a woman's hormones is being developed. The new treatment would not have the unpleasant side-effects of the Pill, such as headaches, weight gain and mood swings.

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A surprising number of headaches are caused by the very medicines used to treat them.

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A surprising number of headaches are caused by the very medicines used to treat them.

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In recent years, sales of air fresheners—especially plug-in air fresheners—have soared. But while sales are up, so are complaints from people who are exposed to the scents at home, at work, in public places, and in the homes of family and friends. Not-So-Pleasant Scents

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Millions of people could be wearing the wrong glasses or contact lenses because eye tests are not being performed properly, new research suggests.

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When is a headache more than a headache? When it's a migraine! In this week's UltraWellness blog, Dr. Mark Hyman reveals the many surprising triggers of these disabling headaches -- and gives you the keys you need to unlock a pain-free future.

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A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it caused, Bild newspaper reported on Monday. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four.

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This is an excellent article on a sleep disorder that affects the mouth. I would recommend that everyone reads it! It is very informative!

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From the article: For doctors, most headache patients are a pain because there are dozens of possible causes.

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