CT, MRI, diagnostic workup, when to scan, radiation safety
A new headache that comes with effort and fades with rest after age 50 can be the heart, not the head. A neurologist explains cardiac cephalalgia and why triptans can be risky.
A neurologist explains why most incidental unruptured brain aneurysms don’t cause headache, how rupture risk is actually calculated, the three warning patterns that are emergencies, and whether you can still take migraine medication.
Your MRI report says white matter hyperintensities and you’re afraid it’s MS. A neurologist explains what those spots mean in migraine, and the pattern that tells them apart.
Constant TV static across your whole visual field that never switches off? A neurologist explains visual snow syndrome, why the eye exam and MRI come back normal, and what actually helps.
Afraid your headache is a brain tumor? A neurologist explains why the “classic” tumor headache is mostly a myth — and the signs that genuinely make me order an MRI.
Vision went black in one eye and came back? Before calling it ‘just an ocular migraine,’ here’s how a neurologist tells retinal migraine apart from a stroke warning.
Sudden one-sided weakness during a migraine can trigger a stroke workup. Here’s how hemiplegic migraine is actually diagnosed — and treated.
If carbamazepine isn’t fully working for your facial pain, the diagnosis may be wrong. Here’s how SUNCT and SUNA differ from trigeminal neuralgia — and what helps.
If verapamil, oxygen, and triptans haven’t touched your ‘cluster headache,’ the diagnosis may be wrong — one drug can end this pain in days.
If your constant one-sided headache hasn’t responded to migraine treatment, one overlooked diagnosis can clear it completely within 48 hours.
