I’ve had encounters with migraine headaches, but luckily for me, only very rarely. Members of my family have suffered much more often with migraines, and I can tell you it’s an awfully helpless and frustrating feeling when you see your child curled up in so much pain.
So I’ve had experience with these wicked headaches, and I’ve researched them extensively, both on my own and via the doctors I’ve taken my daughter to for treatment. It is, truly, a mysterious ailment that is far from well understood. Folk remedies abound, in part I’m sure from the desperation of migraine sufferers to find relief, and in part because the causes of migraines can be so incredibly varied, and vastly different for different people.
Reading the NYT blog, “Migraine – Perspectives on a Headache,” entry titled “Arms at Rest” brought back many memories about encounters with migraines. Here’s how the post begins:
I am a migraineur. I use the noun with care, because after a lifetime of headaches, I have come to think of migraines as a part of me, not as some force or plague that infects my body. Chronic headaches are my fate, and I have adopted a position of philosophical resignation.
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