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I'm Dr. Aviva Romp. Migrades are psychological manifestations of women's inability to manage stress and emotions.

All right, you guys know that's not what I think.

But that is the opening line to an article

in the New York Times that appeared in April of 2016 called Women's Emotions do not cause their migraines.

And in fact that was not the belief of Joanna Klein, the author either.

She lists that as the opening misconception.

And goes on to say that actually,

neurologists are very clear that migraines are a real, debilitating

medical condition related to temporary abnormal brain activity.

But what's really interesting is that for centuries, doctors explained migraines as a

woman's problem caused by emotional disturbances like hysteria and get this

hysteria is from the Greek word hystericos which means uterus or due to depression or

stress and bizarrely according to Anne McGray or stress.

And bizarrely, according to Ann McGregor, who's the lead author of a British

Association for the study of Headaches Guidelines for

for diagnosing and managing migraines, the recommendation for a cure was marriage.

While we no longer recommend marriage for migraines, in fact some women may be listening

to this and chuckling and thinking, just the opposite,

depending on what your marriage is like right at this moment.

I've been in a 33-year marriage, so you know, there are those moments. But but in reality we do have great medications now that can be

helpful for offsetting and preventing migraines but they only work for about 50% of women and only about 2 to 3% of women who have

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