A great many myths get perpetuated about migraine headaches, very likely by the people who don’t get the headaches themselves. In itself, this is a phenomenon like many others in society, but the difficulty with such myths is that they can have a detrimental effect on the migraine sufferers. Those who suffer these severe headaches are sometimes not just judged harshly simply for having them, but when their doctors also believe these myths (and some do), they might even be treated incorrectly.
Many migraine myths involve people judging the sufferers themselves. So they may think a migraine is “just another headache,” when in fact sufferers are dealing with a genetically-based migraine disease, of which a headache is the most prominent symptom. This is evidenced by the fact that it’s actually possible to have a migraine without a headache at all. Because of this myth, treatments could be prescribed wrongly because a normal headache involves a narrowing of blood vessels in the head, while in a migraine the blood vessels expand. Another myth surrounding migraines is that they are psychological. However, being symptomatic of a genuine neurological disease, they result from actual physiological triggers that affect people’s nerve endings and prompt real physical changes.
One myth about migraine headaches that needs dispelling, possibly more than any other, is the idea that they ultimately cause no lasting damage. Many people with migraines do come out of the other side of an episode with nothing more than a bit of lethargy that fades quickly, but for others, migraines have caused strokes, blindness or comas, and have even been linked to epilepsy. And when misinterpreted as just a symptom of clinical depression, which happens more often than one would expect, the prescribed drugs give no migraine relief at all, because anti-depressants have no effect on the real problem.
When thinking of possible myths connected to migraines, most people probably imagine something simple, like the myth that all migraine headaches come with the visual effects known as the aura. While that is a genuine myth, it is far less dangerous or unfair to migraine sufferers than these others. Treatment for the classic migraine isn’t going to be any different even if most patients don’t have the aura phenomenon. But perpetuating some of the other myths, especially those that judge the sufferer, only serves to make their life even worse. Far better that this disease be acknowledged, so they can get the proper treatment.
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