Ask Dr. H: He's getting severe headaches after sex Philadelphia Inquirer It's due to a swelling of the arteries of the brain - much like what's seen with a migraine headache. It falls under the general category of "exertional … and more »

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(ARA) - What do millions of Americans have in common? Headaches. Nearly everyone gets a headache at one time or another, especially during difficult economic times.

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The last time Terry Williams can remember being headache-free was in December. A chronic migraine has plagued her ever since. So have balance and vision problems, a tremor in her left arm, a prickly sensation in her feet and a loss of childhood memories.

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Migraine headaches suffered by one in 10 women may inflict long-term damage to a part of the brain important to coordination and the senses, researchers said on Tuesday.

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Ten years ago, Angus was 20 years old and living in Michigan when she started getting migraine headaches and noticed her shoes no longer fit. Her voice was getting deeper and she was growing again. Most alarming, people started asking her if she was …

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Amanda Rafferty of Haverhill took homeopathic sanguinaria canadensis, made from a toxic herb known as bloodroot, for her monthly migraine headaches. She says her next migraine didn’t come back for a full year. She says she had no idea that such …

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His patient “Gloria” had migraine headaches for over twenty-five years. The pain was so intense it actually woke her up from her sleep several nights a week.

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Without such a comparison group, it’s hard to know, said Holmes, who is also a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Valproate, also given for migraine headaches and mood disorders, continues to be used by some epileptics because it …

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Nasal spray for hay fever may trigger migraine Study finds internasal corticosteroids may cause the terrible headaches

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In some migraine patients, closing the PFO with surgery seems to lead to a disappearance of headaches. Some researchers suspect the unpurified blood leaking through the PFO contains inflammatory molecules, which set off that electrical storm when …

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The agency has documented many cases of physicians prescribing the potent painkillers for patients with migraine headaches, an unapproved use. The FDA said patients will also sometimes chew extended-release pills that are designed to be swallowed …

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WASHINGTON - Those pain pills you think help your migraines? Take too many and you could make them worse. Overusing painkillers can spin migraine patients into a rut, spurring more headaches that in turn require more pain medication. A very unlucky …

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Levine, who suffered from migraine headaches, had a particularly bad episode in the spring of 2000. A friend drove her from her dirt road farmhouse-turned-music studio in Marshfield, Vt. to a clinic in neighboring Plainfield. She was given drugs for …

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Sept. 18: NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Dr. Carolyn Bernstein, author of “The Migraine Brain,” discuss ways to prevent those painful headaches. Melissa is a waitress in her mid-thirties who has suffered from excruciating …

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Sept. 18: NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Dr. Carolyn Bernstein, author of “The Migraine Brain,” discuss ways to prevent those painful headaches. Melissa is a …

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