Anyone who has had a migraine headache can tell you how horrible they are. While some people have only severe pain, others may be sensitive to light or sound, may be nauseated and vomit, or even have difficulty seeing.
Migraine medications have come a long way over the past 10 or 20 years, but for some people, they still don’t help. For those, other treatments must be found. A new study has found that surgery may be the solution for some migraineurs. Researchers studied 79 people who experienced migraines who had undergone surgery treating their trigger sites. The patients were followed …read more

If you’re a smoker and you get migraines, a study that appeared in the most recent issue of  the Journal of Headache and Pain may be of interest to you. Researchers from the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology found that smokers had more migraine attacks than non-smoking migraineurs and that as few as five cigarettes per day triggered migraines.
Interestingly, not much has been studied about cigarettes and migraines. Some researchers believed that smoking could work to ease migraine pain if smokers found smoking to be relaxing. But this study used medical students as their subjects, who knew what migraines …read more