Migraine and Headache Care

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Comprehensive Neurology Care for Migraine, Chronic Headache, and Complex Headache Disorders

Headaches can interfere with work, family life, sleep, mood, concentration, and daily function. Some patients have occasional migraines, while others experience frequent or disabling headaches for many days each month.

VerityMD Neurology evaluates and treats migraine, chronic migraine, tension-type headache, medication overuse headache, vestibular migraine, menstrual migraine, occipital neuralgia, and selected secondary headache concerns.

Symptoms We Evaluate

  • Migraine or frequent headaches

  • Light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, or nausea

  • Visual aura

  • Dizziness or vertigo with migraine

  • Menstrual migraine

  • Headache with neck pain

  • Occipital pain

  • Medication overuse headache

  • Post-concussion headache

  • Headaches not responding to usual treatment

Conditions We Help Evaluate or Manage

  • Migraine with or without aura

  • Chronic migraine

  • Vestibular migraine

  • Menstrual migraine

  • Medication overuse headache

  • Tension-type headache

  • Occipital neuralgia

  • Cervicogenic headache

  • Post-traumatic headache

  • Secondary headache evaluation when red flags are present

Services and How They Help

Neurology Consultation for Headache and Migraine

The evaluation reviews headache frequency, severity, triggers, associated symptoms, medication use, sleep, stress, hormones, prior imaging, prior treatments, and comorbidities.

How this helps:

  • Clarifies headache diagnosis

  • Identifies headache triggers and patterns

  • Creates a personalized prevention and rescue plan

Migraine Medication Review

Treatment often includes preventive and rescue medications, and frequent rescue medication use can worsen headaches.

How this helps:

  • Reviews prior medication trials

  • Identifies medication overuse risk

  • Considers CGRP medications, gepants, triptans, anti-nausea medications, and preventive options when appropriate

Botox for Chronic Migraine

Botox may be considered for patients meeting chronic migraine criteria with frequent disabling headaches despite appropriate prior treatments.

How this helps:

  • May reduce headache days and severity

  • May reduce rescue medication reliance

  • Improves quality of life for selected patients

Lifestyle, Trigger, and Prevention Planning

Migraine can be affected by sleep, hydration, meals, stress, hormones, weather, screens, caffeine, and medication patterns.

How this helps:

  • Identifies modifiable triggers

  • Supports prevention strategies

  • Encourages realistic changes without blaming the patient

When Migraine & Headache Care May Be Helpful

  • Frequent or disabling headaches

  • Headaches with nausea, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, or aura

  • Dizziness with migraine symptoms

  • Headache medication overuse concern

  • Headaches after concussion

  • Need for Botox or CGRP treatment discussion

What to Bring or Have the Referring Office Send

  • Referral from PCP, specialist, or referring provider

  • Medication list, including over-the-counter medications and supplements

  • Relevant office notes, hospital records, imaging reports, labs, and prior neurological testing if available

  • Headache diary if available

  • List of prior preventive and rescue medications

  • Brain MRI/CT reports if available

  • Migraine triggers and menstrual/hormonal pattern if relevant

Important Note

This page is for patient education and does not replace individualized medical advice. Testing and treatment decisions should be based on the patient’s history, examination, records, medications, insurance requirements, and clinical judgment.

Emergency Symptoms

Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department for:

  • Sudden weakness, facial droop, trouble speaking, or new vision loss

  • Severe sudden headache or rapidly worsening neurological symptoms

  • Loss of consciousness, seizure, chest pain, or severe shortness of breath

  • New inability to walk or sudden severe dizziness with stroke-like symptoms

New Patient Referrals

VerityMD Neurology accepts new patient referrals by fax from the patient’s primary care physician, specialist, or referring provider’s office. To ensure accurate triage, insurance verification, and appropriate scheduling, referrals should be sent directly from the referring provider’s office.

Patients who would like to be seen at VerityMD Neurology should contact their PCP, specialist, or referring provider and ask them to fax a neurology referral with relevant clinical notes, insurance information, medication list, imaging reports, lab results, and prior neurology records if available.

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