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Inside Health

Migraines and Headaches

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

1 in 7 people live with migraines around the world, and the condition costs the UK economy billions each year. Attacks can be debilitating and all-consuming, but a new treatment recently approved by NICE might even help the most stubborn cases find some relief.

James Gallagher is joined by neurologist Alex Sinclair from the University of Birmingham, GP Richard Wood from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and physiotherapist Anne-Marie Logan from St George’s University Hospitals to answer your questions on migraine and headache; from understanding why migraines exist in the first place, to if foods like takeaways could be triggers, and what these new treatments mean for the future of migraine management.

Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Julia Ravey Editor: Erika Wright Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris Technical Producers: Sue Malliot and Donald Macdonald

Transcript

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0:34.4

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0:37.9

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0:42.3

One evening, whilst watching the TV and also scrolling on the phone,

0:46.8

I looked up from the phone and found that the TV screen colours and focus had all become zigzaggy,

0:52.6

like a child's kaleidoscope.

0:54.5

They almost always start with a neck pain and I feel a pressure in my head.

0:59.1

It usually starts with a tiny flashing dot in my vision, which becomes worse and worse until

1:04.4

everything except a small circle in the middle of my vision is basically all flashing funny

1:09.0

colours.

1:09.5

I can sense that it's going to get worse.

1:11.8

Feels like an axe is almost hitting you in the forehead and it's just making you sick.

1:15.7

Often one of my eyes feels stiff and dry.

1:18.1

I can even see that my skin gets puffy on the side of my face, which the pain is on.

1:23.6

I just want to be able to remove that entire section of my head to relieve the pain.

1:27.6

Without sounding dramatic, I actually thought, well, this is it then. And I was about to pass out.

1:35.1

Oh, I can empathise with all of that. I've had my own fair share of migraines over the years.

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