'It feels like your skull breaking through your head': What it's like living with migraines
5 years, 5 months ago

'It feels like your skull breaking through your head': What it's like living with migraines

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Bree Gill remembers vividly the first time she ever got a migraine. "Migraine is one of the most common brain diseases in the world," CEO of the Brain Foundation and Headache Australia, Trevor Thompson, told Hack. "Almost five million people in Australia suffer from migraine," head of Pain Australia, Carol Bennett, told Hack. "There's no one cure for everybody," Trevor said. "People with migraines aren't being believed, they feel judged and people think they're being lazy or using it as an excuse," Carol said.

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Your Usual Headache Can be a Sign of Migraine, Look for These Symptoms
2 years, 9 months ago

Your Usual Headache Can be a Sign of Migraine, Look for These Symptoms

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Unlike common headaches, when a migraine strikes a person experiences severe throbbing pain on one side of the head. Migraine headaches are believed to get more frequent in the 30s whereas one is less likely to experience them in old age. Being one of the world’s most common neurological disease, migraine affects nearly 1 billion people worldwide. Also, if several …

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