Monday, April 04, 2011
Jamie Roth
NEW YORK (WABC) -- There are many ways to help treat and manage your debilitating migraine headaches.
"When I get a full-blown migraine, I can end up on the floor of my bathroom vomiting and eventually pass out," said Susan Liebman, a migraine sufferer. When Susan Liebman describes her debilitating migraines, you understand why she and her doctor will try almost anything to prevent them.
"What I try to do is look at it from a multi-disciplinary approach, look at from a medication and non-medication approach," said Dr. Brian Grosberg of the Montefiore Medical Center. That means everything from your lifestyle on down.
As the director of Montefiore's headache program, Dr. Grosberg helps craft the appropriate migraine management for patients. Susan Liebman has recently found benefit in Botox injections around her head, and there are also herbal remedies.
Natural remedies work best if you use them before the onset of the migraine. "All of these things are meant to reduce the frequency and the severity of the migraine," said Artie Gitomer, of Willner Chemists. At Willner Chemists, a 100-year-old pharmacy in Midtown, owner and pharmacist Artie Gitomer, says supplements like magnesium, vitamin B2, and riboflavin, can help cut the incidence of migraines.
"So, for example if you're getting five migraines a month, five to ten, instead you get one to two, that's the kind of thing you look for," Gitomer said. There's no cure for migraines, so Gitomer, Liebman, and Dr. Grosberg say the best you can do is manage and prevent.
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