Aura is the strangest part of migraine and the part patients describe most vividly. A shimmering arc at the edge of vision that grows over twenty minutes. A blind spot with a…
Jaw and head pain share the trigeminal nerve. Why treating one without the other so often plateaus.
Thunderclap onset is the line. What a sentinel headache is and why the one that eases is the dangerous one.
Gradual spread versus sudden onset, positive versus negative symptoms – and why any doubt means calling emergency services.
A set of questions to work through, and why ‘both’ is the most common and most useful answer.
Most self-diagnosed tension headaches are migraines. The activity test that separates them in one question.
The clinical distinctions, the convergence anatomy that lets a neck problem be felt in the head, and why the two coexist more than they compete.
An attack past 72 hours is a medical situation. Why termination fails, and when to stop waiting it out.
Aura is a slow neural wave, not vessel spasm. What that means, and the features that separate it from a TIA.
What changes when migraine crosses from episodic to chronic, why treatment that once worked stops, and what actually reverses it.