Migraines May Carry Long-Term Baggage

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Migraine Pain

I've been suffering from progressively more severe migraines over the past decade or so (I'm 41). After just spending the past few days bed-ridden with the most intense pain, always on my right side, which has now included eye-socket pain and blurred vision...I have to believe something critical and possibly damaging takes place in the brain. I've been treated at a Pain Center for the past decade, and my doctor said my vascular system in the brain is loaded with scar tissue. I wonder if these are the lesions the study is speaking about. The truth is, migraines may not be "hazardous" to my health, but they are most certainly hazardous to all aspects of my life. People have no idea how widespread the effects of them are to one's life.

Leslie of CT @ Jul 24, 2009 20:24:31 PM

Migraine research and awareness

I am grateful after 40 years of living with migraine to see increased research, media, and awareness for migraine disease. We've published Migraine Expressions, a book of insightful and awesome artwork and writing from 125 migraineurs worldwide expressing life with migraine to help promote understanding. (www.migraineexpressions.com)

This book is the only one of its kind, migraine from the inside, and is endorsed by the National Headache Foundation, the Migraine Research Foundation and others. Special purchases in fact include donations to these research organizations. The MRF helped fund the research discussed in this article.

We need more and more awareness, understanding, research and treatments for migraine and the estimated 36 million people in the U.S. who live with it! Thank you for your article.

Betsy Blondin of CA @ Jun 26, 2009 10:46:38 AM

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