The word "a migraine" is familiar to all of us, which is derived from french cognate "hemigranea" meaning pain on one side of the head. But a migraine is bilateral in 40% of the cases highlighting it as a misnomer. Another paradox is you all know a migraine is a chronic disease. So, IHS classification of a chronic migraine for a number of migraine headaches more than 15 /month is also a misnomer.
Migraine genetic loci are being unraveled from the genome-wide association, so the brain itself is migrainous from birth in migraineurs, attacks precipitated by certain stimuli acoustic, olfactory or visual. But it's usually not seen in manual labourers, who are working in precipitous environments for migraine. Can you elucidate a migraine as a disease of thinkers? Share your caring views.
