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Coming soon - I will be doing a post on Migraine disease as an invisible illness for Invisible Illness Awareness Week, Sept 8-14, 2008. Please visit the Invisible Illness Awareness Week Blog for lots of great posts on what it means to have an invisible illness - one that effects your life and abilities, that others cannot see.

Average uric acid levels are significantly higher in the migraine patients who take Topamax (topiramate) than in healthy controls, study finds. As previously reported, use of Topamax leads to: Raise of the levels of acid in bloodShift of the calcium-magnesium balance toward calciumAs a result, migraine

August Headache Blog Carnival.  Slow and steady wins the race?  I'm a week behind here, but it's not too late for you to go read lots of good blog posts on the topic of "Dealing With People Who Don't 'Get' It."  It's posted over at Diana Lee's Somebody Heal Me.  Many thanks to Diana for another

This month the topic of the carnival was How to Deal with People Who Don't "Get" Migraine Disease. Many excellent articles that are of practical use for anyone with migraine. Print them out, bind them and it can make a NY Times bestseller list in no time flat :P .

Welcome to the August 2008 edition of Headache and Migraine Disease Blog Carnival. Generally speaking, a blog carnival is a collection of links to a variety of a blogs on a central topic. The Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival has been created to provide both headache patients and people

Welcome to the August 2008 edition of Headache and Migraine Disease Blog Carnival.Generally speaking, a blog carnival is a collection of links to a variety of a blogs on a central topic. The Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival has been created to provide both headache patients and people who

I’ve been feeling terrible all week. As some of you know I suffer from Crohn’s Disease and it’s been acting up quite a bit this week. On top of that I’ve had a migraine/headache since Monday (I think it might finally be going away), high fevers and now both of my knees are aching.

Better get your skates on. You have until midnight tonight to submit your blog post to August’s Headache Blog Carnival to be published on Monday, August 11. This month, it hopes to be hosted by Atomic City (cross your fingers, everyone.

"Women suffering from migraine with aura who also tested positive for a specific gene variant had more than three times the risk of cardiovascular disease and four times the risk of stroke than women without migraines or the gene variant. The gene variation was in the methyleneterahydrofolate reductase gene." (Ed.

Some time back I saw an ad looking for migraine sufferers to take part in a study. This study was to see how Botox could help ease migraines. I considered, briefly, applying because I often feel like I would do anything to make the pain go away. Then I thought about the fact that Botox is botulism and decided against it.