Myths Surrounding Migraine Headaches

People think that migraine headaches are just like other types of headaches, yet simply more severe. That’s the first of many myths that surround this condition, and is perpetuated primarily by people who don’t get them themselves. Virtually every migraine sufferer can easily dispel all myths, but the problem is that not everyone pays attention. Even some doctors still view migraines through the lens of the myth rather than fact, which results in many frustrated, migraine patients who may be subject to incorrect treatments.

Many migraine myths involve people judging the sufferers themselves. So they may think a migraine is “just another headache,” when in fact sufferers are dealing with a genetically-based migraine disease, of which a headache is the most prominent symptom. This is evidenced by the fact that it’s actually possible to have a migraine without a headache at all. Because of this myth, treatments could be prescribed wrongly because a normal headache involves a narrowing of blood vessels in the head, while in a migraine the blood vessels expand. Another myth surrounding migraines is that they are psychological. However, being symptomatic of a genuine neurological disease, they result from actual physiological triggers that affect people’s nerve endings and prompt real physical changes.

One myth about migraine headaches that needs dispelling, possibly more than any other, is the idea that they ultimately cause no lasting damage. Many people with migraines do come out of the other side of an episode with nothing more than a bit of lethargy that fades quickly, but for others, migraines have caused strokes, blindness or comas, and have even been linked to epilepsy. And when misinterpreted as just a symptom of clinical depression, which happens more often than one would expect, the prescribed drugs give no migraine relief at all, because anti-depressants have no effect on the real problem.

Some myths that are attached to migraine headaches, like the one claiming that everyone gets the visual auras when they get the headaches, are pretty harmless. That sort of myth won’t affect whatever treatment the sufferer will get. It’s when the myths actually affect treatments or prescribed drugs that there could be damage. It will be hard for people to get the proper treatments, let alone discover migraine cures, as long as these myths continue to circulate.

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