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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 11:00 AM EST
Living with Migraines
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There are headaches, and then there are migraines — gut-wrenching, brain-throbbing assaults to the head. They’re hard for most people to imagine, but for 30 million Americans, they’re a fact of life.

Once dismissed as psychosomatic, ‘in your head’ disorders, migraines are now gaining top billing as a disease and a public health issue. And if there’s no cure in sight, at least there are better ways to cope.

This hour, On Point: Living with migraines, and managing the pain.

-Jane Clayson

Guests:

Dr. Elizabeth Loder, chief of the Division of Headache and Pain at Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals in Boston.

Martha Gaie, migraineur since 1984.

Paula Kamen, writer for The New York Times blog “Migraine: Perspectives on a Headache,” has had a chronic daily headache for 17 years.

 

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  • A recent issue of Body and Soul magazine talks about Cranio Sacral Manipulation helping someone who had had chronic migraines for 20 or 30 years.

    Posted by David Pap, on January 4th, 2009 at 8:30 pm EST
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