Migraine Headaches, Vision Effects

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Migraine headache is one of the most common complaints in medicine today. Migraine headaches usually involve one side of the head. Various early symptoms may occur before a typical migraine episode. Other symptoms, together known as an aura, may also occur before a migraine headache, or they may begin when the headache starts.

• In children younger than 10 years, boys appear to have migraines more often than girls. After puberty starts, migraine headaches are much more common in females.
• In general, the rate of migraine occurrence in males drops to a low by age 28-29.
• For females, the rate of migraine occurrence with aura peaks at age 12-13 years (3-4 years before that of migraine without aura).
• Migraine occurrence among females increases sharply up to age 40 years and then declines gradually. The male peak rate is slightly less and decreases over a broader age range.

• The age when migraine headache with aura begins appears to peak at or before age 4-5 years, while the highest rate for migraine without aura occurs at age 10-11 years.
• Data suggests that migraine is a chronic (long-term) condition, although long remissions (illness-free periods) are common.
• The severity and frequency of attacks tend to lessen with age.

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