Migraine Disease: Women Living with It Share How the ‘Invisible’ Condition Affects Their Sex Lives, Careers, How They Parent & More
glamour.com. In fact, migraine is a debilitating neurological disease that : pain, nausea, sensitivity to light, and much more. Around , and, according to a new survey by Glamour, many of those living with the condition (more than half of the women surveyed) will experience migraine symptoms six or more days a month. “My migraines control my life,” said Chantelle Kincy, a 47-year-old mother of three living with migraine. “I have to plan everything on the idea that I may get a migraine.
And if I don’t ‘catch’ it in time to control it, I’ll end up in bed for days.”Below, we look at how migraine affects the nearly 600 women who responded to Glamour's survey and the experiences of women living with the “invisible” disease.Across every age group, stress was the , with 81% of survey respondents saying their chances of getting a migraine increased in tandem with their stress levels.
The condition also causes significant angst—the ultimate vicious cycle: Just the thought of getting a migraine caused 93% of respondents stress, and 38% said they spend at least two hours a day worrying about getting a migraine. (Makes sense: Most respondents reported that migraine disease impacts their life and behavior.)Brittany Herzberg, a 31-year-old living with migraine in Raleigh, N.C., vividly remembers the stress-induced migraine cycle playing out when she was a child visiting the mall with an out-of-town relative. “While we were there, I had the overwhelming urge to throw up,” Herzberg said, but “I didn't make it to the bathroom.
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