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What is Migraine?
Migraine headache is a common primary neurological disorder that leads to severe pain in the head. It is often over excitation of the nerves of the brain leading to headache and other symptoms including sensitivity to light and sound, nausea, vomiting, and terrible pain.
How common is Migraine?
Migraine is the most common neurological disorder. More than 1 billion people have migraine worldwide. About 25% of women and 10% of men suffer from migraine. In Israel, over a million people suffer from migraines.
Where does Migraine come from?
It is often hereditary and passed down from parents to children. It is multifactorial and both genetic and environmental factors influence migraines in people.
How do you treat Migraine?
The goal of migraine treatment is to decreased the numbers of attacks altogether, along with also reducing the intensity and duration of each attack.
Treatment consists of treating acute attacks, preventing attacks from occurring in the first place, and lifestyle changes to avoid triggers that lead to more migraines. Both stopping attacks and preventing attacks are critical in the treatment of migraine.
Often, patients end up taking many pills every day to stop the pain. This can be dangerous and lead to serious consequences such as rebound headaches, increased risk of heart attacks and stroke, liver dysfunction and kidney dysfunction.
Ultimately, the most important goal is improving quality of life, so people can enjoy their lives. This means not only finding an effective therapy, but one that does not have significant side effects and finding the right therapy for each person.
1: Stopping a migraine attack - The right medicine or combination of medicines must be found to stop the migraine attack right when it starts. That means taking the medicine right when the headache begins and making sure the headache is completely gone quickly. Allowing the headache to get worse and linger can often lead to prolonged headaches and more pain.
2: Preventing migraine attacks
Medicine - Often, when people have many disabling headaches we recommend a preventive therapy where one takes a medicine on a regular basis to stop attacks before they occur. There are the older oral medications, newer oral medications, and newer injection therapies such as AIMOVIG, AJOVY, EMGALITY and BOTOX therapy.
Alternative therapy - Alternative therapy can also be very helpful for preventing migraines. This may include medical marijuana, vitamin supplementation, neuromodulation acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, biofeedback, reflexology, holistic therapy and other types of therapy.
Lifestyle changes - This is the most important part of migraine prevention and is crucial to fighting migraine. Things like improving sleep, exercising, reducing stress, finding specific triggers in diet, and dealing with depression and anxiety are indispensable in treating migraine headache.
Dr. Sharon is a leading expert on the treatment of migraine in Israel. He believes in using all possible tools in treating headaches. The goal is to find the right personalized individual treatment personalized for each person that both helps their migraine and does not have significant side effects and improves their quality of life. In addition to the existing treatments people have tried there are many new exciting therapies Dr. Sharon can recommend including new treatments now approved in the United States (CGRP antagonists), Botox therapy, electrical stimulation devices (neuromodulation), nerve blocks, infusions and many other new therapies.
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