Women with migraines face depression as well...and more
April 3rd 2008 21:54
Women with migraines face depression as well
Last Updated: Monday, January 8, 2007 | 6:11 PM ET
CBC News
Women with migraines are more likely to be depressed, according to a study of headache clinic patients.
Migraines are severe throbbing headaches that can cause vomiting, nausea and a sensitivity to light, sound and smells. No one knows what causes migraines.
Women with chronic headaches were four times more likely than episodic headache sufferers — those experiencing fewer than 15 headaches per month — to report symptoms of major depression.
"Painful physical symptoms may provoke or be a manifestation of major depression in women with chronic headache, and depression may heighten pain perception," said study author Dr. Gretchen Tietjen of the University of Toledo-Health Science Campus.
"This relation between migraine and major depression suggests a common neurobiology."
A total of 1,032 women with headaches completed the survey, 593 with episodic (96 per cent with migraine) and 439 with chronic headache (87 per cent with migraine).
Chronic headache sufferers were also three times more likely to report headache-related symptoms such as:
Low energy.
Trouble sleeping.
Nausea.
Dizziness.
Pain or problems during intercourse.
Pain in the stomach, back, arms, legs and joints.
The likelihood of major depression jumped 32-fold among patients diagnosed with severely disabling migraines who reported other severe symptoms.
Other studies are underway to test whether serontonin dysfunctions in the central nervous system are common to severe headaches, other physical symptoms and major depression.
About 3.5 million Canadians are believed to suffer from migraines.
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I can tell you without a doubt as a chronic migraine sufferer,these symptoms fit.I fight depression.When you're in pain all the time,it rules every part of your life.
Now,before my pain was chronic,I lived in fear of the next migraine attack.I'm just tired of at this point.It's been years and the pain is constant and at a high level.
Trouble sleeping,well,I cry in my sleep.I have nightmares.The pain wakes me up,and when it does,I can't beleive the amount of pain I'm in.I stop breathing.It's horrible.Some mornings I wake up feeling like I beat myself up.
I don't understand why research for meds for things such as ED have taken priority,when disease such as migraine ruins and sometimes takes lives.
Last Updated: Monday, January 8, 2007 | 6:11 PM ET
CBC News
Women with migraines are more likely to be depressed, according to a study of headache clinic patients.
Migraines are severe throbbing headaches that can cause vomiting, nausea and a sensitivity to light, sound and smells. No one knows what causes migraines.
Women with chronic headaches were four times more likely than episodic headache sufferers — those experiencing fewer than 15 headaches per month — to report symptoms of major depression.
"Painful physical symptoms may provoke or be a manifestation of major depression in women with chronic headache, and depression may heighten pain perception," said study author Dr. Gretchen Tietjen of the University of Toledo-Health Science Campus.
"This relation between migraine and major depression suggests a common neurobiology."
A total of 1,032 women with headaches completed the survey, 593 with episodic (96 per cent with migraine) and 439 with chronic headache (87 per cent with migraine).
Chronic headache sufferers were also three times more likely to report headache-related symptoms such as:
Low energy.
Trouble sleeping.
Nausea.
Dizziness.
Pain or problems during intercourse.
Pain in the stomach, back, arms, legs and joints.
The likelihood of major depression jumped 32-fold among patients diagnosed with severely disabling migraines who reported other severe symptoms.
Other studies are underway to test whether serontonin dysfunctions in the central nervous system are common to severe headaches, other physical symptoms and major depression.
About 3.5 million Canadians are believed to suffer from migraines.
----------------------------- ----------------------------- ----------------------------- -----------------------
I can tell you without a doubt as a chronic migraine sufferer,these symptoms fit.I fight depression.When you're in pain all the time,it rules every part of your life.
Now,before my pain was chronic,I lived in fear of the next migraine attack.I'm just tired of at this point.It's been years and the pain is constant and at a high level.
Trouble sleeping,well,I cry in my sleep.I have nightmares.The pain wakes me up,and when it does,I can't beleive the amount of pain I'm in.I stop breathing.It's horrible.Some mornings I wake up feeling like I beat myself up.
I don't understand why research for meds for things such as ED have taken priority,when disease such as migraine ruins and sometimes takes lives.
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