Migraine (also mistakenly called migrain) is a type of severe or sometimes even disabling headache. About 30 million people suffer from migrain in the US alone, about three quarters of them are women. Migrain can torture for hours or sometimes even days, accompanied by nausea or vomiting and painful sensitivity to light and sound. However, Migraine symptoms may vary, every person experiences migraine in her or his own way. But the devastating headache which seems endless and which you want to remove at any cost is what they all have in common.
Why I started Migraine.Info blog?
In this blog I will describe what I feel when I have migrain and how I treat it, the methods and meds I use for different migraine conditions. Hopefully, that helps other people to get rid of migraine or at least improve the quality of their lives. Feel free to share and discuss your migrain experiences, they are really invaluable for offer migrain sufferers! But remember that you should ask your doctor for professional medical advice on migraine before you take any steps! Migraine is different form other headache types and sometimes difficult to deifne. It is critically important to to diagnose migraine correctly.
In fact, many people don’t even know that the condition (headache) they suffer from is migrain. My mother told me about the strange symptoms she experienced many years ago, the ones known as the signs of classic migrain with aura. Thank God she had it only in her teens and twenties and now it’s gone. I’m certain that was migrain and she was surprised because it never occurred to her . I began to suffer from migraines in my twenties, at that time I didn’t even know that what I considered ordinary headaches was migraine. It’s been only about 2 years that I was able to diagnose migraine myself, I own this to the Internet. I applied to my doctor and he confirmed the diagnosis: migrain. What I know for sure is that migraines can the managed. Now that I learned how to manage migrain I started to enjoy life again.
