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This debilitating disease affects more than 5 million people in Spain. The first step is to identify the triggering causes of the crisis in each person to provide effective treatment. A healthy lifestyle is beneficial and helps combat it.
“Only when you sleep does the pain tend to disappear, and when you wake up you have the hope that it won't come back soon.”, are the words of a sufferer feeling unhinged after suffering the consequences of a migraine. It gives voice to the 12% of the population, mostly women, who suffer from this neurological disorder in our country. Intense headache, an attack that incapacitates you for hours, being forced to stay in bed or on the couch, and the need for total darkness without noise… are general terms that serve to summarize what is felt and needed when we suffer from what we colloquially know as a migraine. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified This disease is the sixth most disabling and the second most debilitating within the neurological specialty..
Suffering from a severe migraine attack prevents us from carrying out our daily lives normally.Not being able to go to school or go out to play with friends are actions that are sometimes curtailed during childhood, for example, and are replaced by "staying in a closed room, waiting to be able to sleep with the lights off even though I'm not sleepy." This is how our colleague Javi Arán describes what he experienced, explaining that he had to endure a sharp pain in his temple that he couldn't treat.: “I had to live with it, get used to the pain, and learn to manage it by concentrating.”Fortunately, the progression of the disease has been very favorable over the years. It has been mitigating, and today she only suffers from these attacks occasionally.
Depending on the patient, choose the most effective treatment
According to data from the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN), this disease affects 5 million people in Spain. Broadly speaking, 82 million people worldwide experience a migraine attack every day. As our neurologist clarifies, the Dr. Jesús Romero ImbrodaNumerous genes have been identified that predispose to this condition, although environmental factors that can precipitate attacks in these genetically susceptible individuals must not be overlooked. This means that, according to studies, it can be considered a hereditary disease. In Javi's case, coincidentally, his mother and grandmother also suffered from this common and undertreated nervous system disorder.
Many people insist on the question Who treats this pain? “A primary care physician is fully qualified to diagnose and effectively treat a migraine. Cases in which there is diagnostic doubt or where there is no improvement with standard treatments are referred to Neurology for further study and treatment.", explains Romero Imbroda. It must be taken into account that each person presents a different pathological picture: "Depending on the patient's characteristics, the best treatment to alleviate the seizures must be recommended and, for cases where they are very frequent, preventive treatment must be prescribed." The neurologist states that initially It is necessary to identify what causes or factors influence the triggering of a crisis, some of which cannot be modified, such as changes in weather, but others which can be, such as not staying up late without catching up on sleep, alcohol consumption, stress, etc. It affects leading a healthy lifestyle, such as physical exercise and controlling vascular risk factors.
Thanks to advances in research and medicine, In recent years, advanced treatments have been developed for chronic migraines or those with a high frequency of attacks.The doctor discusses botulinum toxin injections at the pericranial level and new treatments based on monoclonal antibodies that influence the calcitonin gene-related peptide pathway (erenumab, galcanezumab, and fremanezumab), which have proven highly effective in preventing migraines and reducing their intensity.
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