Understanding Migraine

Sunday, 24 February 2019





Migraine is all-encompassing, and a daily fight with the unpredictable. Symptoms and severity in attacks not only vary from person to person - but each attack can be unique in itself.

It is not just pain, it can be an assault on your entire body, and can leave you with a hangover for days (with none of the fun beforehand). Severe migraine attacks have been classified by the World Health Organisation as among some of the most disabling illnesses- comparable to dementia, quadriplegia and active psychosis.

Despite their debilitating nature, and the fact that 1 in 7 people in the UK suffer from migraine, headache teaching is not on the curriculum for approximately 75% of the undergraduate medical schools in England.





My migraines are chronic (occurring 15+ days a month), and are often a combination of pain, nausea and vomiting, sensitivity to light, smell and sometimes sound. My vision often becomes blurred when experiencing an attack, and I suffer with "brain-fog"- difficulty processing information, difficulty speaking, difficulty walking in a straight line without somehow injuring myself - hello team mystery leg bruise!

I've gone from working full-time to part-time as a result of suffering with migraines, and I've lost count of the amount of times I've missed work or social occasions because of them.

For some, migraines have patterns and triggers, but for me they're unpredictable and unrelenting - I've had days where I've woken up feeling well, left the house for work and had to have my dad pick me up after passing out on my journey.

With the burden of living with chronic pain, the fear of when the next attack will be, the damage to family, social and work life, and the isolation migraines cause, it's no wonder that anxiety and depression are significantly more common in people with migraine than those without.



Do you suffer with migraine? What are your symptoms/triggers?


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