American Migraine Foundation

Not everybody has all of them.

Migraine is massively underdiagnosed according to the American Migraine Foundation.

They present data on their website that only about five percent of people who actually really do have migraine have been to a doctor, gotten diagnosed, and received migraine-specific medications.

So a lot of people have migraines, and they are calling them something else, tension headaches, sinus headaches, menstrual headaches, like, whatever words they use.

instructions are all listed in New Zealand formulary.

And the Migraine Foundation website, great website, again, I put a link in the show notes, and it provides details on access and cost of the various preparations.

And the cheapest I could find range from around $325 per month upwards.

So not inexpensive, and that I think was likely a barrier to a lot of people, even if you can get the disability allowance to to go towards part of it.

Formal diagnostic criteria weren't established until 2012.

According to the American Migraine Foundation, vestibular migraine affects up to 3% of adults and occurs up to five times more often in women.

Dr. Shinbei notes that many patients are women in their late 30s or 40s with a history of migraine headaches, motion sickness, or migraine in the family.

The symptoms interfere with driving, work, and travel,

I went to two of the larger websites that are tasked with taking care of people with chronic migraines and helping them to have fewer migraines.

I went to the American Migraine Foundation and I did a search for linoleic acid.

And as you can see, there were no results found, although there was a donation button that was very prominent.

I then went to the Migraine Trust, another large organization.

And I have a list here and I thought these were pretty helpful.

So these are all recommendations from the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and American Migraine Foundation.

So, yeah, let's do top 10 headache home remedies and whether they actually work.

So coming in at number 10 was take a break from your screen.

That's a lot.

And even more disturbingly, the American Migraine Foundation estimates that only about 5% of people who really do have migraine have been to a doctor, been diagnosed, and gotten meds.

Now, part of that's access to care, right? That could be part of the reason that it's such a small percent.

But Still, that's a lot of people listening right now who have migraine and don't know it.