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Facts About the Impact of Migraine - National Headache Foundation
- Forty-two million Americans have migraine. Migraine attacks typically start during adolescence or the 20s.
- 52% of people living with migraine disease are undiagnosed by a healthcare provider.
- Migraine is misdiagnosed as tension (a catch-all phrase) or sinus headache (a relatively rare condition) almost as frequently as it is correctly diagnosed.
- Migraine affects 13% of the population, and one in every four U.S. households has someone living with migraine.
- It is estimated that industry loses $31 billion annually due to absenteeism, lost productivity, and medical expenses caused by migraine.
- 70% of all people living with migraine disease are women.
- 24% of people living with migraine disease report headaches so severe that they have sought emergency room care
- More than half (51%) of people living with migraine disease report a 50% or more reduction in work and/or school productivity, and 66% report a 50% or more reduction in household work productivity.
Tremor in patients with migraine
Background: It has been suggested that patients with migraine are at a higher risk of developing essential tremor (ET). In addition, it was shown that patients with migraine are at higher risk of subclinical vascular infarcts in the cerebellum, a structure believed to be implicated in ET.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16732847/
Background: It has been suggested that patients with migraine are at a higher risk of developing essential tremor (ET). In addition, it was shown that patients with migraine are at higher risk of subclinical vascular infarcts in the cerebellum, a structure believed to be implicated in ET.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16732847/
Migraine Symptoms And Triggers
Migraine is characterized by throbbing head pain, usually located on one side of the head, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and/or sound. The combination of disabling pain and associated symptoms often prevents sufferers from performing daily activities. Symptoms, incidence and severity vary by individual.
Less than one-third of people with migraine experience what is known as “aura.” They may see light flashes, blind spots, zigzag lines, and shimmering lights and may experience vision loss and numbness prior to the head pain and other symptoms.
Many things may trigger a migraine. Triggers are not the same for everyone, and what causes a migraine in one person may relieve it in another. Triggers may include one or more of the following categories: diet, activity, environment, emotions, medications, and hormones.
Frequency/Duration
Typically, people living with migraine experience an average of two attacks per month, which can last anywhere from 4 to 72 hours. Migraine attacks tend to occur in three phases: preheadache, the headache itself, and post-headache. The pre-headache phase can last for several hours. The post-headache phase can last up to two days and can feature nausea, exhaustion and other mood changes.
https://headaches.org/facts-about-migraine/#:~:text=Typically%2C%20people%20living%20with%20migraine,can%20last%20for%20several%20hours.
Migraine is characterized by throbbing head pain, usually located on one side of the head, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and/or sound. The combination of disabling pain and associated symptoms often prevents sufferers from performing daily activities. Symptoms, incidence and severity vary by individual.
Less than one-third of people with migraine experience what is known as “aura.” They may see light flashes, blind spots, zigzag lines, and shimmering lights and may experience vision loss and numbness prior to the head pain and other symptoms.
Many things may trigger a migraine. Triggers are not the same for everyone, and what causes a migraine in one person may relieve it in another. Triggers may include one or more of the following categories: diet, activity, environment, emotions, medications, and hormones.
Frequency/Duration
Typically, people living with migraine experience an average of two attacks per month, which can last anywhere from 4 to 72 hours. Migraine attacks tend to occur in three phases: preheadache, the headache itself, and post-headache. The pre-headache phase can last for several hours. The post-headache phase can last up to two days and can feature nausea, exhaustion and other mood changes.
https://headaches.org/facts-about-migraine/#:~:text=Typically%2C%20people%20living%20with%20migraine,can%20last%20for%20several%20hours.
Higher prevalence of migraine in essential tremor: A case–control study
Background
The existence of an association between migraine and essential tremor has long been controversial. The prevalence of migraine in essential tremor patients was surveyed to explore the association between the two diseases.
Methods
A case–control clinical study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of migraine in 150 consecutive essential tremor patients and in 150 matched controls without tremor. Detailed information about essential tremor and migraine was obtained using a structured questionnaire at a face-to-face interview. Moreover, a functional variant of the dopamine receptor D3 gene (Ser9Gly, rs6280) was studied in 46 essential tremor patients with and without migraine using direct sequencing analysis.
Results
The prevalence of lifetime migraine in essential tremor patients was significantly higher than that in controls (22.0% vs. 12.7%; p = 0.035; odds ratio = 1.95; 95% confidence interval = 1.05–3.60). No significant difference was found in the migraine features between the essential tremor and control groups and most tremor characteristics were no different in essential tremor patients with and without migraine. A higher male prevalence of essential tremor patients without migraine was observed. Moreover, 44 of 46 (95.7%) essential tremor patients had the dopamine receptor D3 Ser9Gly variant, but no significant difference was found in the frequencies of the variant between essential tremor patients with and without migraine (87.5% vs. 100.0%; p = 0.22).
Conclusion
Our data suggest that essential tremor patients have a higher risk of lifetime migraine than do controls and the dopamine receptor D3 Ser9Gly variant may be lower in essential tremor with migraine than the general essential tremor patients.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0333102414531153
