Integrative & Homeopathic Medicine
If you get migraines often enough to plan your life around them, you have probably already been told to identify your triggers, keep a diary and try to manage stress. That advice is not wrong, and for a lot of people it is not enough.
At Trilogy Medical in Aptos, Dr. Jeff Lester, D.O. treats migraine and chronic headache as a whole-person problem rather than as an isolated head symptom. Conventional assessment comes first, and homeopathic and integrative treatment is built on top of it.
Seek emergency care for a headache that is the worst of your life or comes on suddenly and intensely, a headache with fever and a stiff neck, weakness, numbness, confusion, difficulty speaking or vision loss, a headache after a head injury, or a headache that is new and persistent if you are over 50.
Most conventional migraine treatment aims at stopping an attack once it starts. A constitutional approach focuses on reducing how often attacks happen by looking at the whole pattern including sleep, digestion, hormones, mood and lifestyle factors.
Migraine rarely travels alone. Sleep quality, hormonal patterns, blood sugar, neck and jaw tension, gut function and long-running stress all feed into headache frequency.
Some patients see attack frequency drop substantially. Some see attacks become shorter or less severe without becoming less frequent. Some see little change. Improvement usually builds over months rather than weeks.
Many patients seek constitutional treatment to reduce how often migraines occur rather than to stop an individual attack. Results vary between individuals and you will get a realistic assessment at your first visit.
Yes. Do not stop or reduce a prescribed medication without speaking to the doctor who prescribed it.
A headache pattern that develops when acute headache medication is used frequently over time.
Usually months rather than weeks because the approach targets the underlying pattern.
Yes. Hormonally-linked migraine is common and connects to our hormonal health services.
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Trilogy Medical — Center for Integrative Medicine
7539 Soquel Dr.
Aptos, CA 95003
831-600-8117
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Aptos, CA 95003
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7:30am – 6:00pm
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