Migraine Myths and Reality
Fiction
- Migraines are easily identified and
diagnosed by doctors
Truth -
Migraine
pain is amongst the least properly diagnosed and most
mistreated of all ailments. Up to 70% of migraine
sufferers have never been properly diagnosed with having
the illness. Migraines remain seriously underestimated
and misunderstood, even among doctors treating this
illness
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Fiction -
Migraines
are nothing more than really bad
headaches.
Truth-
The
headache is really just a symptom of a disease and the
cause of the migraine pain is the opposite of the cause
of the headache pain. Migraines are a disease that are
genetically based. Those with a single parent who
experience migraines themselves have a 50% chance of
developing migraines.
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Fiction
- Migraines are annoying
and uncomfortable, but there’s nothing life-threatening
about them.
Truth
- Migraines can induce
several life-threatening conditions such as stroke,
aneurysms and coma. 27% of all strokes
experienced by those under the age of 45 are preceded by
a severe migraine headache. 25% of all cerebral
infarctions are associated with migraines. In addition,
studies have also found links between migraines and
epileptic seizures.
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Fiction -
Migraines
are psychological in nature, caused by external
environmental factors.
Truth - A migraine is a neurological disease, not
a disorder. Migraines truly are
neurological diseases, caused by physiological and not
psychological triggers. Migraines happen when cranial
blood vessels dilate, causing nerve endings to release
serotonin, a crucial factor in the development of a
headache.
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Fiction -
If you
aren’t suffering from the most severe symptoms like
nausea and auras, then it’s probably not a
migraine.
Truth -Only 20% of
migraine suffers experience the kind associated with
auras. And many never experience the more extreme
symptoms such as nausea or
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Fiction -
Only women
suffer from headaches.
Truth -
Women, men,
adults and children all suffer from
migraines. While it’s true that
the overwhelming majority of migraine patients are adult
women, a significant number of suffers are male and an
increasing number of children are being treated not just
for migraines but for a particular type called abdominal
migraines.
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Fiction
- There’s no doubting
about whether that headache you’re suffering is really a
migraine or not. If you’ve got a migraine, you’ll know
it.
Truth
- Millions of people
suffer from migraines without having been correctly
diagnosed or thinking that it’s just a regular tension
headache.
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Fiction
- My headaches are
triggered by allergies or changes in the weather
conditions; therefore they are probably sinus
headaches.
Truth
- Allergic reactions and
changes in the weather can trigger migraines, but they
are never the cause. In addition, migraines are offer
accompanied by symptoms such as a runny nose or watery
eyes that can be mistaken for sinus-based
headaches.
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