Q My migraines are becoming more frequent. If it turns into chronic migraine, is it hard to cure?
A If headaches occur on 15 or more days a month for over 3 months, it is chronic migraine. Active early treatment can prevent it from becoming chronic or turn it back into the episodic form, so managing it now is important.
Detailed Answer
Chronic migraine is highly treatment-resistant among primary headaches and causes a major decline in quality of life. Risk factors for becoming chronic include medication overuse, sleep disorders, obesity, depression and anxiety, and increasing headache frequency. Starting preventive treatment early and preventing MOH can return more than half of cases to episodic migraine.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
At Dongjedang we consider that the more chronic a migraine becomes, the more Blood Stasis (eohyeol) and Phlegm-Fluid accumulate over a long period, fixing the pain in place and making it prone to worsening at night. In the detox stage of our brain-clearing herbal regimen, we actively clear away this residue, and with craniosacral chuna therapy we improve cerebrospinal fluid flow to change the brain environment itself. We raise the long-term prognosis through at least three months of consistent treatment.
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