#migraine

#migraine

Migraine is an "invisible illness," which means you can look totally fine on the outside while dealing with symptoms that make it nearly impossible to think clearly, see straight, or tolerate light and noise. And despite how often it's dismissed as "just a headache,", migraine is actually a chronic neurological disease - one that affects how the brain processes pain and sensory information, says Dr. Zarmina Mufti, a neurologist, headache specialist, and migraine educator who regularly shares educational content about living with migraine on social media.

The representative survey of 2,200 people by the Migraine Trust found that 23% of mixed-ethnicity, 19% of Asian, and 16% of black respondents said their ethnicity had negatively affected their care citing poorer treatment and even racism compared with only 7% of white respondents. Black people were also more likely to fear discrimination or a negative effect on their career owing to migraines, at 37%, compared with just over a quarter (26%) of white respondents. Almost a fifth (19%) of Asian respondents and 14% of black respondents said they worried they would not be believed about their migraines, compared with 8% of white respondents.

And not just the ordinary sort of headaches that we all get, but I have something called cluster headache, which is one of the three primary headache disordersI mean, there are other primary headache disorders, but these are the three main ones: tension-type headache being the most common, migraine being probably the most familiar and most debilitatingand predominantly among women.

Migraines experienced since teenage years were linked to smoke, the trigger identified after attempts to eliminate various other factors.