Most people who have migraine are on the mild end of the spectrum; they might experience one to three headache days per month and lose some functionality as a result of symptoms. But about a quarter experience severe levels of disability associated with their symptoms. One to 3 percent of American adults are estimated to have “chronic migraine,” in which intermittent migraines progressively become more frequent—people with chronic migraine experience at least fifteen or more headache days a month for at least three months in a row. To put these numbers in perspective, epilepsy affects 2.1 million Americans. Autism affects half a million Americans. Chronic migraine affects 2.4 to 7.1 million American adults.
Migraine Snacks
Sexism affects your medical treatment in a thousand ways
stakeholders’ best attempts to legitimate migraine are undermined by cultural meanings of headache and migraine that are overlaid with assumptions about gender. These gender assumptions overdetermine how medical knowledge about headache disorders is produced, disseminated, and used.
How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym — Science of Us
How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym — Science of Us
What utter bullshit. Next iteration of “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” I notice they’re not handing out you’re-so-successful-and-tough cookies to people with chronic pain or a thing for floggers.
Also if it actually worked like the article suggests, being uncomfortable would help me ignore chronic pain, not intensify it. Or I should be able to push through a marathon no problem because I’m so great at dealing with pain. Not true.
When someone calls your illness “controversial”
Migraine and gastroparesis from a gastroenterologist’s perspective.
Migraine and gastroparesis from a gastroenterologist’s perspective.
Migraine makes your stomach not empty as quickly as it should. This can really affect how well your drugs work, especially time-sensitive ones like triptans. If you’re taking triptans by mouth and they aren’t working, you might want to talk to your doctor about injectable or nasal spray options.
Conversation takeaway
I wish I could be taken care of and be convinced I was taking care of myself.