As a hairdresser of 16 years, Lauren Mackellar’s identity was wrapped up in everything hair care.
The 38-year-old, from Melbourne, was a stylist to the stars and working on her own line of hair products towards the end of 2021 when everything came crashing down.
An ‘excruciating’ migraine brought her to the emergency department where doctors found a fist-sized aggressive tumour in Lauren’s brain and she was rushed to surgery in the matter of hours to have it removed.
Surgery
Here is a straightforward, clinical description of a migraine: intense throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise, lasting for hours or days.
And here is a fuller, more honest picture: an intense, throbbing sense of annoyance as the pain around my eye blooms. Wondering what the trigger was this time. Popping my beloved Excedrin—a combination of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine—and hoping it has a chance to percolate in my system before I start vomiting. There’s the drawing
Migraine sufferers could receive a daily pill on the NHS which can slash in half the frequency of their crippling headaches.
NHS spending watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), will decide later this month whether to offer the drug, named atogepant, to patients who have failed to respond to other treatments.
Experts expect the pill, which costs about £8,000 a year per patient, to be approved after studies revealed that it is significantly more effective than
Migraines are more than just headaches, as any regular sufferer will attest.
The throbbing, pulsating pain starts deep in the brain and typically remains centered on one part of the head for a long time, usually worsening over time.
An estimated 40 million people in the US and roughly six million in the UK deal with migraines, with most suffering an attack one to two times per month.
Neurologists are still attempting to pinpoint the causes of migraine – which
Migräne ist eine der am häufigsten missverstandenen neurologischen Erkrankungen, die häufig mit traditionellen Kopfschmerzen in einen Topf geworfen wird – eine schädliche Verallgemeinerung, die zu sehr vereinfacht, wie schwächend Migräneanfälle sein können.
„Als ich Anfang 20 war, war die Vorstellung von meinem Leben ganz anders als heute“, sagt Cannon Tekstar Hodge, das bei TikTok ansässige „Migraine Babe“, gegenüber Yahoo Life. Hodge beschäftigt sich seit
