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. Ocular areas often affected. The pain is usually severe, intense and tends to be associated with nausea, giddiness and generalised sense of malaise. Many patients feel relieved if there is vomiting.