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If you have migraine, consider keeping a headache diary, or downloading a migraine app, to identify possible triggers.

Try lifestyle changes and first-line treatments to start. People with migraine are also at increased risk for other disorders, including heart disease, stroke, epilepsy, anxiety and depression. Seniha Ozudogru, a neurologist at Penn Medicine. But if you’re not getting the help you need, you might want to see a headache specialist or neurologist, said Dr. “There is better understanding of migraine within the primary care community in recent years and more knowledge about the newer treatments,” he said. If you think you might have migraine, see your primary care practitioner, Mazuera suggested. Also, these attacks must cause either nausea or sensitivity to light and sound. People are likely to suffer from migraine if they have had at least five headache attacks in their lives, each lasting between four and 72 hours, and if the pain fulfills two out of these four criteria: It throbs or pulsates it is on one side of the head it is moderate to severe it worsens with activity. Migraine is a neurological disorder and it differs from garden-variety headaches.

(Delcan and Co./The New York Times) - FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SCI MIGRAINE TREATMENT BY MELINDA WNNER MOYER FOR JULY 14, 2022. This ‘woman’s disease’ doesn’t get a lot of research funding, but the medical establishment has made strides in developing new drugs and devices to combat migraine over the last five years. Santiago Mazuera, a neurologist at the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute in Baltimore. “Fewer than 30 percent of people suffering with migraine seek medical advice, and only some of those patients will receive an appropriate migraine treatment,” said Dr. Recognize the symptoms of migraine and get a diagnosis.įar too many Americans with migraine suffer in silence. Here’s what migraine sufferers should know about today’s treatment landscape. The good news is that over the past several years, the medical establishment has become more interested in the issue, and a handful of new treatments for migraine have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In other words, he said, sexism almost certainly plays a role in medicine’s apathy toward the condition. Robert Cowan, a neurologist and a former director of the Stanford Headache Program. Why is this devastating condition so woefully understudied? The National Institutes of Health spent only $40 million on migraine research in 2021 by comparison, it spent $218 million researching epilepsy, which afflicts one-twelfth as many Americans. (One came on while I was grocery shopping, and I couldn’t remember what month or year it was, what I was there to buy or how old my kids were.)ĭespite its ubiquity, research on migraine has long been underfunded. Every few weeks, ocular migraine clouds my vision with strange zigzagging lights for a half-hour and once or twice a year I get attacks that cause temporary memory loss. I get migraine headaches, but thankfully they’re more bizarre than excruciating. Several studies have found that migraine became more frequent during the pandemic, too. Nearly 40 million Americans get them - 28 million of them women and girls - making migraine the second most disabling condition in the world after low back pain. If you don’t suffer from migraine headaches, you probably know at least one person who does. By Christina Jewett of The New York Times