Doc Gumshoe on the causes, triggers, and treatments for migraine headaches
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The first thing I would say is that people who have never had a migraine think it is just a bad headache. It is much mo...
Oh wow, this is such a wealth of information about migraines. I used to think that a migraine is just when my head hurts...
Interesting points Dr. Hyland. I'm an episodic migraineur and I do grind my teeth at night. I've gotten a night guard bu...
I didn't see mention of changes in air pressure due to weather as a trigger, but that was one that got me every time, ba...
Two suggestions. I'm a dentist not a physician. However I've used an NTI devices and had patients use a dental anaesthet...
I'd focus on improving GI health first before taking any expensive meds. Healthy guts absorb the right nutrients & b...
While usually impressed with Doc Gumshoe analysis, this treatise tends to show him out of his depth. The mention of u...
I have followed cannabis investing for years and my conclusion is SCAM!! The scam is the pricing which producers claim ...
Could you tell me which CBD you use? I've been taking CBD for two years. I no longer suffer from severe migraine but it'...
i started getting migraines at 40 terrible agonizing , paralyzing ! yes , the worst ones paralyze me on my left side...
FYI chronic migraine can change the symptom pattern of one sided pain to bilateral pain. I started experiencing exercis...
Michael, regarding the Vascular Hypothesis and imaging studies showing no increase in blood flow that one might expect f...
As a parent of a child who suffers from migraines to the extreme - passing out because of the pain... with the greatest ...
one of the stocks inthe Global Investing portfolio, Teva of Israel, expects to launch a migraine med based on deuterium ...
#Private Kardium seeking CE Mark for breakthrough treatment of atrial fibrillation http://www.biotuesdays.com/features/...
Avanir Migraine Drug approval just announced - any insight / side effects / etc. that can be offered at this time...
You might check the Doc Gumshoe piece about migraines - "More Than Just A bad Headache: Living With Migraines" - that po...
#Migraine > https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/lilly-buys-migraine-biotech-colucid-for-960m-and-drug-it-out-licensed...
#EndPoints : TOP STORIESGlaxoSmithKline’s Hal Barron poaches Genentech’s top cancer drug dealmaker for his new R...
Blockbuster ambitions: Amgen/Novartis team lines up more promising PhIII erenumab data for some of the toughest migraine...
Just wanted to add that while researching for the biotech company for the cancer vaccine I learned that Mangosteen juice...
$Ranitidine- I take RX strength dose daily for Barretts and have gotten Migraine type symptoms if I drink even small amo...
No ticker Couple of thoughts, if you don't mind... Your symptoms make sense as you are describing them, to a point. An...
I remember my neurologist mentioned that I don't fit the profile of someone with a migraine condition. Right-side pain a...
I have to say it's rather hard to tie all this together into a unifying process without examining you, particularly in t...
$Migraines $MagnesiumI have been lucky enough to of never have had a simple headache in my life so far, but I would ...
One more thing, how do I know the symptoms were migraine prodrome? I attribute it to my experience with familiar symptom...
Are you male or female?Why do you use Flovent?what age are you?What other medications are you on?Have yo...
No ticker - I have a medical question that is unrelated to the stock discussion here. Over the last few months I experie...
$ AXSM NPAxsome Therapeutics announces AXS-07 for migraine treatment Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXSM), a...
$AXSM Axsome Therapeutics Announces AXS-07 for the Treatment of Migraine http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=...
$AYTU Reverse split 3 out of 4 years. They passed the 2017 reverse split in 2016. Expect more. If you can understand th...
I KNOW FOR CERTAIN MAGNESIUM STOPPED MY MIGRAINES... BEEN FREE OF THEM FOR ABOUT 5 YRS NOW... HEADACHE DR. ADVICE SAID T...
the problem with drugs to deal with brain plaque to cure Alzheimer's is that we don't know if one causes the other, and ...
Migraine drug category getting crowded. https://endpts.com/tevas-cgrp-migraine-drug-aces-phiii-while-rivals-pile-up-at-...
Just wanted to share with Gummies a new stock I'm watching: $ZSAN - Zosano Pharma. Couldn't find this one on the Gummie ...
$CLCD $LLY $ACOR"The Long-term Effect of Acupuncture for Migraine Prophylaxis A Randomized Clinical Trial” (It w...
$CLCD, long Frenchy, I’m a little behind on the threads for the last few days, so I just saw your note on CoLucid. I ...
Weird you say that Helen, I am thinking about taking half of my position in CLCD which is up more than 350% in order to ...
I thought your comment on COQ10 having negative interactions with statins, beta blockers and anti-depressants quite inte...
$AMGN - Implications for $CLCD"Amgen's migraine drug succeeds in late-stage trial" (11/17)Nov 16 (Reuters) - Amg...
$CLCD (long) Follow-up on Newby 9/17 press release post:CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company ...
No position CLCD. I guess I'm luck, I don't know what a migraine feels like. And when I eat ice cream too fast, my thr...
Hi lingling: I wanted to reply to your recent post about migraines and lasmiditan from CoLucid.What we're seeing now...
$CLCD, $ALDR, #Migraine -$CLCD gained 14% today on raised target price by Piper Jaffray ($36 from $21) based on p...
My heartiest congratulations to all CoLucid longs....strong work! I sat this one out NOT because of any doubt but just f...
Lannas: it's hard, especially in the nonce, to leave big profits on the table. My honest opinion, FWIW, however, is that...
$CLCD long - Thanks ZKSS *CoLucid Pharmaceuticals +40% Premarket @$15.01; Co Announced Primary, Secondary Endpoints M...
$CLCD In - Week of Sept 5, 2016 sharing: http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2016/08/ten-common-biotech-investing-mistakes/comm...
For those looking to get in on $CLCD, remember to use limit bids and patience because data due out in two weeks or so. T...
We have a few trials due to give results in the coming weeks, so I figured I’d give Commandment #10 a try. First up is...
Very nice and useful article Doc, thanks so much. As far as what a SPA means here is a link that explains thoroughly wha...
Thanks to all for the comments. To Griffin, sorry, but I don't know of any MDs or medical authorities in central Calif...
Doc Gumshoe, I suffer from what research I've done is food intolerance. The reason I've decided it is intolerance is t...
Dr. KSS, Thank you for the information about the tuning fork. In Jin Shin Jyutsu, a branch of Asian medicine, for a ...
To any migraine sufferers out there: For ten years, in my thirties, I had severe migraine headaches twice a month - eup...
Many chronic frontal headaches owe to mucus trapping in sinus air cells or pockets under pressure. For example, the baro...
The most important thing is not cardiac issues. It's that triptans just are not a very effective class of medicine. They...
I should have mentioned above the key point in my opinion is the high percentage of migraine sufferers who have cardio i...
Re CLCD , Dr. Lipton presents a strong case for the benefits of Lasmidistan for migraine sufferers with cardiovascular p...
CLCD stock price moved up a total of 50% in the 3 days after the meeting from about $6.20 to $9.60.Long CLCD and a m...
Regarding Colucid's strong positive movement last week which several asked about above, my take was that it was a result...
$CLCD long. Amgen ($AMGN) and Novartis’ ($NVS) migraine drug erenumab has hit the primary endpoint in a Phase II trial...
$CLCD"CoLucid Pharmaceuticals Announces Last Patient Randomized in SAMURAI Phase 3 Pivotal Trial of Lasmiditan in Mi...
$TRVNIn todays press release announcing that Trevena will present at the Jefferies 2016 Healthcare Conference, there...
I want to bring readers up to date on CoLucid ($CLCD), a biotech we floated as a long idea last year. CoLucid is phase 3...
Thanks a million diplacus: you caught me forgetting some of my own holdings. I promise readers I am not disorganized, bu...
$CELG - #Celgene highlights key #oncology data at #ASCO16 http://bit.ly/1TZRcCS$TGTX - "Majority of DLBCL responses...
I am long $ARLZ. I agree the Canadian drugs are me-too. They are deploying a new sales force this month to bring Fibric...
We've not peered in on Alder Bio in a while: it's announcing this am that its mAb against calcitonin gene-related peptid...
I may look at entering CLCD here. I have a sneaking feeling they may become a category killer in migraine the way Radius...
Yeah, totally nutso. Great company. Great drug....likely to become standard of care for migraine even if not first-line....
After this Biotech downturn some that look very enticing and undervalued to me that we follow at these prices with good...
To mthunder: Great queries and points. I say bravo to being in both $NK and $CLCD. They are both on my want list.....I h...
TRVN-Trevena Announces Presentations at PAINWeek(R) 2015 7:00 am ET September 8, 2015 (BusinessWire) Print Trevena, In...
TRVN-Trevena Appoints Yacoub Habib as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Corporate PlanningKING OF PRUS...
Amgen's (AMGN) migraine drug report in a crowded field including our beloved CLCD which I hope is tops when it is all sa...
TRVN Long: Trevena Announces Poster Presentation of Data for Delta Receptor Compound TRV250 at American Headache Society...
Thanks Doc for explaing migraine headaches and what Trevena is chasing with its opioid receptor.You are awesome in expla...
Glenn: this is in answer to your question from the other thread about Trevena's new delta opioid receptor biased ligand ...
Doc Kss, is Trevena (TRVN) chasing the same thing that CLCD is chasing with migraine's?If so I guess you would still con...
I am still intensely skeptical:(1) other CGRP acting agents from other companies have failed (2) six months is stil...
$ALDR For Migraine sufferers (and investors): Alder Presents Positive Clinical Data for ALD403 at the 17th Congress of...
TRVN-Trevena, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRVN), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of b...
TRVN corporate update.Long TRVN.Trevena Reports First Quarter 2015 Financial Results and Provides a Corporate Update...
No, I am not concerned. I don't want to sound callous, and I know migraine sufferers read here, and I have had a migrain...
Mr Paglee....one thing to keep in mind is that CLCD said it was moving from Durham (a brain trust area) to Cambridge (an...
Hey Dan: At least 2 other companies have had calcitonin gene related peptide-acting programs for migraine that have fail...
Any view on their migraine effort?...
CoLucid - Dr. KSS As a former chronic migraine sufferer, I read with great interest your excellent article regarding Co...
Thank you for the Special Bulletin on CLCD. I keep telling myself not to buy any more biotech without selling somethin...
In response to Doc Gumshoe's article, and to Dr. KSS who says that everything in it and the followup are 100% accurate, ...
Avanir was a weird story. I don't think anyone dug their Nuedexta coughsyrup with a college education thing, and huge su...
Ben/sogiam, anyone else interested in Alder ($ALDR).OK, I took a pretty thorough look here. For whatever reason Ben ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Data from Phase 2b Clinical Trial of Clazakizumab, an Anti-IL-6 Monoclonal Antibody for the Trea...
Alder Biopharmaceuticals has gone from about $10 to $15.72 in a couple weeks. One of their drugs, ALD403, is a monoclon...
I've held Pozen for about 10 years, for a net of no gain. Their promise back then was the answer to Migraine headaches. ...
Re: # 734 [Frenchy] & # 739 [Jim T.] I believe the great Dr KSS is most assuridly a guy. Back @ 294 on 2-1, His po...
Good article on migraine by a neurologist migraine sufferer. Coffee, massage, yoga/meditation, and magnesium are reco...