Sentences with phrase «first migraine attack»

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Few migraine sufferers experience their first attack after this age.

However, this research was the first to consider the frequency of migraine attacks when analyzing its connection with TMD: eighty - four women in their early to mid-thirties were assessed, being that 21 were chronic migraine patients, 32 had episodic migraine, while 32 with no history of migraine were included as controls — the results were published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.

For the first time, the trigger factors responsible for a migraine attack were not determined for a collective but rather separately for each individual patient.

What triptans can not do — and what Peter Goadsby, director of the Headache Center at the University of California, San Francisco, has dreamed about doing for more than 30 years — is prevent migraine attacks from happening in the first place.

Patients «still will need to take something when they get a migraine attack, but this is the first designer medication to prevent migraine rather than treat as needed,» he said.

At the first sign of the aura, immediate application of transdermal progesterone to the temples and back of the neck would often abort the coming migraine attack.