MIgraine Cure Myths

!–paging_filter–pFor people struggling with migraine pain, the promise of relief can lead them to try anything that sounds like it would work. But Patrick Hogan, clinical director of South Puget Sound Neurology, warns patients should be cautious of unproven therapies. “There’s a lot of profiteering out there for migraine,” he says. br /The treatments, ranging from dietary supplements to various procedures, often come with impassioned claims of efficacy. But Hogan says a treatment is not proven effective until it has been rigorously tested. “Every treatment we investigate for migraine has to work greater than 40 percent of the time because [a] placebo will work about 40 percent of the time,” he says. br /“I see people everyday who finally get to the right person to help with their migraine, but they have already spent so much money on things because they’re desperate and people take advantage of that.”/p