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I was having frequent migraines, as well as some cluster headaches.

In desperation, I started taking feverfew 2x/day and a gut motility supplement containing ginger (Integrative Therapeutics Motility Activator). Both feverfew and ginger have some clinical evidence for migraine prevention. I stopped having headaches for a while, but then they started back up again.

I would describe most of this round of headaches as being mild cluster headaches. 'Mild cluster headache' might seem like a contradiction, but I would get the same droopiness and eye irritation on the right side of my face along with mild pain as when I would have with the severe ice-pick stabbing pain headaches - so I think they were the same thing.

Someone on a chat mentioned that Mg threonate is good for migraines and I realized that I had switched from Mg threonate to Mg glycinate at about the time that the headaches started coming back.

I switched back to Mg threonate and ... I think my headache situation has improved. (knock wood)

Since I take a lot of potentially blood thinning supplements, I also take vitamin K1.

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