The painful episode of migraine is usually intense and lasting for half an hour to over a couple days. The exact cause often remains unknown. It has been proved that migraine is a vascular disorder. While the exact causation in unknown, it has been observed in practice that migraine is often pshychosomatic in origin. There are migraine personality and we have observed in a study of a series of migraine patients at our center, that, there is also a common thread in the migraine personality type.
Migraine sufferers are more females than males.
However, we are observing a shift. Often observed to be running in the family, showing hereditery links. Migraine headache is a subjective experience. The commonly described pain is typically throbbing, bursting, hammering, or shattering. The pain might start on one side or a spot on the head and spreading to any other place.