Headaches

• Migraine

Cluster headaches

A reader’s brother, who is in his 60s, has suffered from excruciatingly painful cluster headaches for the past few years. more>

Case study

A 51-year-old woman came to see me with menopausal symptoms. Since then, she had suffered frequent migraine attacks with nausea and vomiting, and leg cramps; her contact lenses had begun to hurt her e... more>

Ways to deal with Migraines

Many people suffer all their lives with this severe type of headache, which can last for hours or even days. Often starting on one side of the head, it causes severe pain and problems with light. more>

Supporting the spine

Migraine sufferers often report neck pain, tender neck joints and limited neck movement. A high percentage of migraine sufferers improve with chiropractic and other forms of spinal manipulation more>

Keeping headaches at bay without drugs

More than a headache, a migraine is a serious problem affecting millions of people worldwide - women three times more frequently than men. It is estimated that as much as 25-30 per cent of the female... more>

Herbal helpers

A few herbs have been shown to benefit migraine sufferers. * Feverfew. This herb (Tanacetum parthenium) is probably the most effective plant for preventing migraine. more>

Teenage pill tragedy

My darling daughter Caroline, aged 14, started having health problems in October 1991 (numbness in face, speech affected, loss of sight, tingling in hands and slight headache), which our GP diagno ... more>

A head full of horrors

Medicine throws a cocktail of drugs at migraine, with questionable benefits, when many practitioners have proved that a change of diet can often cure it forever. ... more>

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