Putting Our Heads Together

December 28, 1992, marked a new era for Migraine and cluster headaches sufferers when the FDA approved the first of a class of medications that many would come to call "miracle drugs." That drug was the injectable form of sumatriptan (Imitrex®, Imigran®), the first of the triptans. Now, the FDA has approved a new Imitrex® STATdose in a 4mg dosage. This is the same STATdose injection system patients have been using; only the dosage has changed. The 4mg STATdose provides a new option to patients for whom the 6mg was "too strong" or may have produced uncomfortable side effects. Feature article.

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Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... That You Need To Know rose to the top rankings of books on headaches and Migraine when it was released on November 1 and has remained there since.

Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches is a holistic guide to the diagnosis and treatment of headaches and Migraine disease. It offers a patient-empowering message to all headache sufferers: you don't have to live with daily pain. In this book, I provide you with all the information you need to know about getting the help you need, including: Understanding side effects, treatments for long-term relief, identification of the various types of headaches, traditional and alternative therapies, information on finding health care practitioners and support.

For more information , see:

• Home Page: Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches
  
• Table of Contents: Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches
  
• Two Chapters from Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches
  
• Supplemental Content for Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches

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I first began looking into a group Web sites under the umbrella of Flu-Fighter Laboratories when a reader asked me what I thought of the product being sold at migrainecure.com. As I read the site, I found more and more content there that was plagiarized and blatant misrepresentation. The first thing to catch my eye was a photo of a woman holding a bottle of their product with the caption, "Merle Goldstein, MD Chicago, IL." Now, I've met Dr. Merle Diamond, and that photo certainly was not of her. She was also liberally quoted on that page. When I contacted Dr. Diamond, she was shocked and very unhappy. She knew nothing of the site or their product... Soon, I discovered that I wasn't the only person looking into these sites and reporting them to governmental agencies. Now, prosecutors in Florida are going through the courts to try to shut them down, permanently. Feature article.

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I'm going to be doing several radio interviews about Migraine disease and headaches over the next couple of months. Many of them can be listened to online. I've put up the interview schedule. You may want to bookmark this page since it's being updated frequently. View schedule

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Another medication can now be added to the growing list of medications shown to be effective for prevention of headaches and Migraine attacks. Namenda (memantine HCL, Forest Pharmaceuticals) was approved for use in the United States in October, 2003, more than a decade after its use began in Europe under the brand names Ebixa and Axura. It's classified as an orally active NMDA receptor antagonist. Namenda (memantine hydrochloride) is approved for the treatment of "moderate to severe dementia of the Alzheimer's type."

John Claude Krusz, Ph.D., M.D., and Diane Cammarata, ANRP, BC, have been studying the use of Namenda in the treatment of chronic Migraine disease and tension-type headache (TTH) in Dr. Krusz's Dallas practice. The results have been quite promising. Feature Article

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The day is here! My book, Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches: What your doctor doesn't tell you... that you need to know, is available in bookstores and though online book sellers.

Here's the book description from Amazon.com:
For millions of Americans, Migraine disease, tension headaches, and other headaches are a debilitating part of every day. Teri Robert has been there -- in fact, she experienced her first Migraine at age six. Now, in this groundbreaking holistic guide to the diagnosis and treatment of headaches and Migraine disease, she brings a patient-empowering message to all headache sufferers: you don't have to live with daily pain. She provides you with all the information you need to know about getting the help you need, including:

• Understanding side effects
  
• Treatments for long-term relief
  
• Risks and symptoms
  
• Identification of the various types of headaches
  
• Traditional and alternative therapies
  
• Information on finding health care practitioners and support
  
• Numerous case studies and expert advice
  

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Yesterday, Reuters News reported:
"Chirac's office announced that the president was in hospital on Saturday, several hours after the 72-year old had been brought into the Parisian clinic after a "vascular accident" which affected his vision and was accompanied by a migraine."

Little information is being released about President Chirac's condition, but that brief description makes me wonder if the "vascular accident" was perhaps a Migrainous stroke. Please let this serve as a reminder that, if you experience the worst headache of your life, if your Migraine continues more than 72 hours, or if your Migraine symptoms are dramatically different than your usual pattern, please seek medical care immediately...

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