Sahara is a 27-year-old elementary school teacher.
"The pain and discomfort is so bad, I want to remove my head from my body"
Her Problem
Sahara suffers from severe throbbing pressure on her left side. She feels like someone punched her left face from inside her head. She has these pain attacks two to three times a month. She has sought emergency medical relief for her head pain in the past. She also loses vision in one eye or loses the ability to move her left arm and leg during her migraine pain.
What She Learned
Sahara underwent an MRI Brain scan to look for a structural cause of her persistent head pain. Based on her neurology evaluation, she was diagnosed with migraine syndrome. Hormonal changes increased her risk of migraines, which she now understood she'd had since the onset of menstruation. As a child, she often couldn't tolerate car rides due to nausea and dizziness, which was retrospectively diagnosed as a variation of migraine syndrome. She remembered her mother coming home from work doubled over in pain and locking herself in a dark room for a day to recover. Her mother likely suffered from migraines as well.
Women around the world make up 60-70% of people who suffer from migraine pain. Sahara is one of those women. At any given time made up a approximately one out of ten people across the globe who is experience a migraine right now.
Like most other painful neurological conditions, the sequelae of migraine can be life altering. Migraines cause enormous disruption and disability for women. often without proper treatment or navigation to live their lives.
Her Plan
Sahara worked with her medical team to develop a treatment strategy. Her treatment included medication to prevent migraines, including medication to stop an active migraine. She was also encouraged to change her daily patterns, including nutrition and exercise, to rebalance nervous system irritants that she realized were more likely to provoke her migraine episode.
Her Experience
Your Brain Doctor® helped Sahara reset her nervous system. She learned not only how migraines cause different, often confusing symptoms and how different stressors could spark her overwhelming cycles of pain. Most importantly she benefit from a community of like-mined women and experts to specifically to reduce the disability and the impact of migraines that impacted of migraines on her daily life.
