And a common thing is for a woman to have a migraine, migraines get worse in women at puberty. They are worse on a monthly basis, before, during, after menstrual cycles, around ovulation. Again with pregnancy, they can change. And then with menopausal changes migraines can become better or worse. You mentioned they can be called common migraines.
Migraines can be mild in the pain or severe.
Common migraine is a migraine without what we call an aura. Classic migraine is the migraine with a visual disturbance. We call them scintilating scotomas bright lights or flashing lights on the side of the visual field or an alternation in vision. And then they re followed fairly quickly by a severe one-sided headache. That s classic.