American Headache Society Symposium

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Monday, November 09, 2009
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It's been a wonderful learning experience here in Scottsdale at the 2009 American Headache Society's Headache Symposium. Teri and I attended sessions on Migraine and headache pathophysiology, diagnosis, epidemiology, chronic daily headache, adolescent headache and post-traumatic headac...

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Thanks for the new info!
cking
Monday, November 09, 2009 at 11:37 PM

Hi Nancy:

New insights into migraine pathophysiology and treatment are ALWAYS welcome--thanks so much for taking the time to give us a peek at some of the new reports. Enjoy the Symposium, and I hope you are feeling well.

Clemmie

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Nancy Harris Bonk
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Thanks Clemmie. I am pooped, but learned quite a bit.

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Megan Oltman
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 08:42 PM

Sounds great! Lovely new picture, too!

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Nancy Harris Bonk
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 09:04 AM

Thanks to Teri for the photo. Couldn't resist the great spot for a new one.

Dr. Goadsby
eliz
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM

The conference sounds great. Can't wait to hear more. Also, I believe Dr. Peter Goadsby is from UCSF. Thanks for attending and passing the information on.

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Nancy Harris Bonk
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 04:11 PM

You are so right! I was writing that so late during the conference. Dr. Goadsby won't be too happy with me now, will he? Thank you for pointing that out --I will take care of that right away!!!!

conference
kja
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 09:45 PM

Nancy, you mentioned low pressure headache. What does that mean????

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Nancy Harris Bonk
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 09:17 AM

Hi there,

Low pressure headache, or CSF leak, is a type of headache that may occur (but not always) after a lumbar puncture. It may also happen spontaneously, or after a trauma. The person's head pain worsens when standing or sitting and immediately feels better when laying down. Bed rest, fluids and even caffiene have been known to help heal this type of headache. Sometimes a blood patch may be needed to repair the leak.

Does that help?

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Teri Robert
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:11 AM

That refers to headache caused by low cerebrospinal fluid pressure.

Teri