The Migraine Treatment Guide Podcast
Medications, Procedures, and Surgery Explained for the management of chronic headaches, including migraine, tension headache, cluster headache, NDPH, and other headache diagnoses. Created and edited by Dr. Adam Lowenstein of the Migraine Surgery Specialty Center, this podcast covers diagnosis, medication, surgical, and non-surgical alternatives to headache medication in order to educate patients with chronic headache pain on their options for headache relief.
The Migraine Treatment Guide Podcast
Latest Episodes
Hormone Related Menstrual Headaches Explained
Menstrual migraines get framed as an invisible hormone math problem, but that story breaks down the moment you ask a simple question: if estrogen and progesterone circulate everywhere, why does the pain keep bottlenecking in the same square inc...
Post-traumatic Headache Explained
A headache that starts after a crash or a hard hit can feel exactly like migraine and that’s the problem. When the pain is throbbing, relentless, and hijacks your life, it’s natural to assume the source must be inside the skull. But there’s a l...
Headaches After Illness Like COVID Explained
A headache shows up with a cold and then refuses to leave for years. That sounds like a neurological mystery, but we walk through a different possibility: a purely mechanical problem at the base of the skull where the greater occipital nerve tr...
Migraine Surgery Recovery Sometimes Requires Patient's Patience
You wake up from nerve decompression surgery and the surgeon tells you it was flawless. Then, three weeks later, a migraine hits so hard you start wondering if you made a terrible mistake. That emotional swing is more common than most people re...