Migraine is a brain disease, and the headache component gets a lot of our attention, but the prodromal and postdromal phases, as well as the aura, can cause diagnostic confusion and create management challenges.
Migraine may, outside of headache, present with emotional and cognitive symptoms, fatigue, autonomic instability, gastrointestinal symptoms, sensitivities to sensory input, vertigo, or even chills! It can be a great mimic that can cloud your differential diagnosis until you add it to the list of possibilities, and once you do, you may realize that you are seeing more patients living with migraine in your practice than you realized.
You are invited to spend an evening exploring everything about migraine but the headache.
Our guide for the evening will be Dr. Claire Sandoe. Dr. Sandoe is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Toronto and a headache neurologist at the Women’s College Hospital Centre for Headache. She serves on the board of the Canadian Headache Society, the Education Committees of the International Headache Society and the American Headache Society, and is co-chair of the Canadian Headache Society National Neurology Resident Headache Course as well as the American Headache Society’s Mastering Migraine Therapies program.
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