“#Migraine is a neurological disorder, not a terrible, disabling #headache," expert @DavidDodick explains. #Pain is "just 1 clinical manifestation deriving from a sensory processing disturbance affecting the nervous system" (Morgan, Lancet 2020). /Thread thelancet.com/journals/laneu…
Billie lost her insurance when #migraine disabled her: “There are days I don't see anything except for shapes." Visual warnings are the most commonly recognized auras, but these symptoms are highly variable, both in different patients & on different days for the same patient. 2/ 
Difficulty speaking or speaking clearly is another common #migraine symptom, either preceding or during an attack.
Poor St. Husband. He watched this clip & said, "Yup, that's you." I spent a lotta years in school to talk like this. 3/
Poor St. Husband. He watched this clip & said, "Yup, that's you." I spent a lotta years in school to talk like this. 3/
Morgan: "Cultural representations ... reveal an ingrained stereotype of #migraine misery: white middle-class women lying down with their arm raised across their face, hand pressed against their head, indicating nervous temperament rather than pathophysiological illness." 4/
#Migraine costs Americans more years lost to #disability than twice all other neurological diseases combined, but research is so disproportionately low that Congress ordered @NIH to increase it.
Instead, migraine funding went DOWN, @NINDSdirector. 5/
Instead, migraine funding went DOWN, @NINDSdirector. 5/
#Migraine is a progressive disease in adults & kids. Each attack makes the brain more susceptible to future attacks. Ineffective treatment is a leading risk for continuous migraine. Most migraine is recurrent #pain accompanied by sensitivity to light/sound &/or nausea. See an MD.
#MedicalTwitter #PCP Fewer than 1/2 of people w/ the most common & disabling brain disease go w/o diagnosis. #Migraine is progressive. Most cases can be diagnosed w/ 1 Q: recurrent head/belly pain w/ hypersensitivity &/or nausea?
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