A large part of migraine management is understanding your individual migraine triggers and how to manage triggers to avoid an attack. What is Migraine? Migraine is a complex neurological disease that causes so much more than a bad headache. Scientists are still learning about how the disease begins and progresses, but it seems to have genetic and environmental components. Scientists believe chronic migraine is caused in part by a dysregulation of pain input in the brain. This causes the nervous system to become sensitized or overly sensitive to stimuli that would otherwise be normal. Most people wouldn’t be bothered by…

Nerivio is a cool drug-free migraine treatment option that can stop attacks in 2 hours. Plus, it can’t cause medication overuse headaches. Treating migraine attacks can be a long game of trial and error. Once you get in to see a doctor, sometimes you have to try a lot of different medicines before you find what works best for you. Another difficult part about common abortive medications like triptans is that they can cause medication overuse headaches. It can be a very hard balancing act of when to try an abort a headache and when you hay have taken too…

Sometimes you can’t stop a migraine, but here’s a list of my favorite migraine tools to help ease the pain and feel better. Migraine attacks are rough. Even when you bring in the hardcore abortives, you still have to ride out the effects of the attacks. I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite migraine tools to help with the symptoms that wear you down over time. I want to give credit to two wonderful creators that I have learned so much about migraine from: Momming with Migraine and Migraine Babe. N1 Headache This is the migraine tracking app…