Abstract
We migraineurs seeking medical treatment to relieve symptoms of other conditions quite naturally tend to be somewhat single minded, perhaps forgetting for a time about our headache disorder as we concentrate on our aching knee, or whatever. If you remember the discussion of Blau’s study on “losing migraine” from Chapter 3, perhaps you recall that some of the migraineurs interviewed traced the disappearance of their headache symptoms to the time they started taking medication for other conditions. Chapter 10 on medical treatments mentions the accidental discovery that certain medications developed to treat heart and blood pressure problems also bring significant relief to migraine symptoms.
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Burks, S.L. (1994). Nonheadache Drugs Cause Trouble. In: Managing Your Migraine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0305-6_9
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