Migraine

Inside a World of Invisible Pain

New York Times bestseller (The Biggest Buff, The Confidence Game, Mastermind) and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova delves into the mysterious ailment that she and 39 million others suffer from in the U.S. alone: Migraine, a disease that is still little understood, yet debilitating to its sufferers. Konnikova takes a clear-eyed look at migraine’s history, diving into current theories and more recent approaches - and offers a deeply personal account of what it’s like to experience migraine, usually with little warning and always to a level that is devastating to a degree.

Eighteen percent of women are thought to suffer from migraine, and Konnikova thinks that it’s not a coincidence that the ailment has not gotten the medical investigation that it deserves. It is unfortunately far too common to see medical data gaps where a predominantly female patient population is concerned.

Informative and entertaining, Migraine is an Audible Original for those who suffer from migraine and those with sufferers in their lives - which would amount to just about everyone.

©2021 Maria Konnikova (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC.

Absolutely amazing

This story actually brought tears to my eyes. It brought light to so much. It validated that what I experience is real and I am not the only one. Thank you!

Insight on Migraines

Great book for those wanting to know what migraine sufferers go through. I can relate to the brain fog and occasional visual disturbances. The author's experience with bad migraine made me realize that although I have had migraine myself in the past and sometimes it has been really bad enough to make it difficult to function that it hasn't been as debilitating as what she has gone through because of the accounts of her experiences with it. Great insight for those who want to know what your loved ones dealing with migraine are experiencing or those who are in the business of healthcare.

Grateful for a voice of truth

As a chronic migraine sufferer, I was grateful to see this audible book.

Really well written and read by the author.

Great information..

This is a must read if you have migraines, know someone who does or just curios.. So, informative...

Fellow Sufferer

Having been a migraine sufferer since 1966, at age 18, It is “gratifying” to learn of others experiences in our dystopian medical structure. The money I’ve plowed into doctors, tests, drugs, herbs, vitamins, massages, acupuncture, biofeedback, psychotherapy, hypnosis, babysitters, etc., etc., etc., plus the time I have been unproductive because I couldn’t stop the agony of Beezlebub beating on my head, sitting on the toilet with both vomiting and diarrhea, begging a god for reprieve. I remember a time in 1978, arriving at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, late at night, two kids in tow: they asked me how close I lived to the Clinic. Close! They pumped me with morphine, promethazine, steroids, and an antihistamine and let me drive home with my kids in the car. In today’s world, they would worry about litigation and the possibility and probability of killing somebody, most notably my children. I never had the luxury of a “migraine” drug until 1998, at which time I was 50 years old, 32 years of which I had suffered through migraine.
What component of migraine I experienced that the author never described was about 10 years into my life as a migraineur(?), I had an inconvenient, niggling headache all the time, roaring into full-blown headache a couple times per week, set off by not enough sleep, forgoing eating, noxious smells, wrong time of month, stress, anxiety…

In 1981 I had a grand mal seizure in Durango, CO. It was a tense event as I didn’t live there and I didn’t know who I was nor how old I was, for three days. I spent 5 years on Dilantin.