So what is migraine? Is it a serious and dangerous disease or simply a headache? No one can give the exact answer. Though both male and female have had the migraine at least once in their lives, these are not equal sufferings. Women’s migraines are longer and more arduous. That’s why migraine is used to think of as “women’s illness”.

We should differentiate between the migraine and the usual headache. Often women, having severe headache think it is a migraine, while the others suffering from migraines for years do not even know about it.

Practically everyone knows what a tension headache is. This kind of pain is frequently depicted as a tight-fitting fillet around the head. Such headache may continue for days.

A migraine is a severe, trembling headache, often attended by sickness and spewing, also extraordinary perceptibility to light, motion or sound. It can repeat regularly. The main reason of women’s migraines is hormones. Scientists proved that until sexual maturity girls and boys have migraines in identical portions. And after sexual maturity women suffer more. A lot of women indicate that migraines occur together with their menstruation.

According to Charlotte Libov, a famous journalist, migraine isn’t regarded as a dangerous illness, though it is as serious as other female diseases. It deserves not less attention than breast cancer or heart diseases. Due to such neglect many women don’t look for cure, and a lot of sufferers are cured ineffectively. This disease is encircled by plenty of myths. Some of the most widely believed are:

  • migraine is caused by emotional sphere. In reality migraine deal with biology.
  • women themselves cause migraines because they are unable to cope with stress and get nervous. In reality, stress situations may promote the disease, but they don’t cause migraine.
  • migraine is just a strong headache. It is not true. As was said above, tension headache and migraine have uncommon reasons, symptoms and cure.
  • specific products, for example chocolate, cause migraine. In fact, some food really may result in migraine for certain women. But this is an exception, rather than a rule. There exist a number of other things that can cause migraine, sometimes even changes of the weather.
  • if a woman has migraines, she has to get used to them. Perhaps it was actual many years ago, but not today. New technologies and medications are available for everyone, they give help to millions of suffering women.

So, migraine is not considered a insuperable disease any more.