Menstrual migraine, migraine and contraceptions, migraine and pregnancy and migraine triggers

Diagnosis of Menstrual Migraine

Menstrual versus non-menstrual attacks of migraine without aura in women with and without menstrual migraine.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to compare clinical characteristics of menstrual and non-menstrual attacks of migraine without aura (MO), prospectively recorded in a headache diary, by women with and without a diagnosis of menstrual migraine without aura (MM) according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 237 women from t...

What triggers migraine aura?

About 15% of migraine patients suffer from migraine with aura. Most patients have visual or sensory symptoms. The assumed mechanism of aura in humans is a phenomenon called spreading cortical depression (1,2). Cortical spreading depression is characterized by a short cortical neuronal excitation followed by long-lasting depression. Both excitation and depression travel across the cortex at a sl...

Course of migraine during pregnancy among migraine sufferers before pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE To describe the course of migraine without aura and migraine with aura during pregnancy and factors that could influence its course, among migraine sufferers before pregnancy. METHOD A cross sectional study undertaken at the IMIP, Brazil. Out of 686 consecutively assisted women, at the first postnatal week, 266 were identified as migraine sufferers before pregnancy. RESULTS There ...

Migraine versus probable migraine.

CLINICAL HISTORY A 77-year-old man has a history of similar recurring headaches since he was a teenager. For years, the headaches would occur about one time per month, but for the last 5 years, they occur about once per week. He reports a left frontal-retro-orbital aching non-throbbing pain without associated aura, nausea, vomiting, and light or noise sensitivity. Untreated headaches can last 1...