A Migraine And Its Signs and Symptoms

Migraine affects women three times as often as men and is frequently inherited. A migraine headache is characterized by recurrent attacks of severe pain, it is usually on one side, and sometimes, on both sides of the head. It may be preceded by flashes or spots before the eyes or a ringing in the ears, and accompanied by double vision, nausea, vomiting, or dizziness. The attacks vary in frequency from daily occurrences to one every few years.

Signs and symptoms of migraine may vary among patients. That is why, what a patient experiences before, during and after an attack cannot be exactly defined. Some of the common phases of a migraine attacks are the “prodrome”, which occurs hours or days before the headache, the “aura“, which immediately precedes the headache, the pain phase, also known as headache phase, and the “postdrome”. These common phases are not necessarily experienced by all migraine sufferers. In addition to these, phases that has been experienced and symptoms that is also experienced during migraine can vary from one migraine attack to another in the same migraine.

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