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If you tend to sleep poorly and are prone to migraine headaches, beware that a doozie may strike you two days later.  This warning comes from a Harvard study of 98 young persons 35 yrs on average who wore wrist devices to quantitate their sleep and kept headache diaries.  

 

The data shows that a night with 6 and a half hours or less of fragmented sleep triggers a 39% chance of a migraine the second day after.  Ironically, the chance of a next day migraine is lower.  

 

Migraine sufferers should do all they can to assure a good nights sleep every night including avoiding caffeine, late night meals, and agitation. 

 

Suzanne M. Bertisch, Wenyuan Li, Catherine Buettner, Elizabeth Mostofsky, Michael Rueschman, Emily R. Kaplan, Jacqueline Fung, Shaelah Huntington, Tess Murphy, Courtney Stead, Rami Burstein, Susan Redline, Murray A. Mittleman

Neurology Dec 2019, 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008740; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000008740

 

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