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More statistics: Migraines are 50% more prevalent than depression, twice as prevalent as osteoarthritis and 15 times more prevalent than rheumatoid arthritis. They are also three times as prevalent as diabetes.
Four Months of Migraines
There is a long list of people who have, over the course of history, suffered from migraine headaches. Included are Thomas Jefferson [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Sigmund Freud [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion and Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval mystic.
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Effective Relief for Migraine Headaches
Famous People Who Suffered from Migraines
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Levy writes a lot about his own experiences with migraines and the frustrations of not being able to predict them or able to wish them away. He says they have had a direct impact upon his work routine, his social life and his family life.
Migraines were a maddening malady as much as 5,000 years ago, when they were mentioned in Sumerian manuscripts. Yet, there is still little relief for them.
Andrew Levy, an English professor and Writer’s Studio director at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, surveys the history of migraines and describes his own struggle with them in his book, A Brain Wider Than the Sky (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
His migraines are most often triggered by a change in barometric pressure, heralding an approaching storm. Sometimes he tries to combat the pain by taking a shower or reading Buddha. He also takes Sumatriptan, which was invented to specifically treat migraines.
The title of Levy’s book is taken from an Emily Dickinson poem.
Migraine Statistics
Levy [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Andrew, A Brain Wider Than the Sky, Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Levy started getting migraine headaches in his 20s, but had a four-month onslaught of them when he was 43. They appeared almost daily to torment him. Sometimes he had to move around on all fours. Standing up straight involved unbearable pain. One time his two-year-old son found him lying prone on the nursery floor, besieged by a migraine. The little child wrapped his arms and legs around his dad as if to parent him through a crisis.
Personal Experience with Migraines
Migraines affect about one out of every ten people, according to Levy, who claims they are misunderstood and, in the medical world, rank low on the totem pole of serious illnesses. That is due, he says, to the fact that they are looked at as “pain with no meaning.” That makes them an undervalued affliction even though some people have to be hospitalized so that anti-migraine drugs can be administered intravenously.
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