migraine

Science 8 January 2016: 
Vol. 351 no. 6269 pp. 116-119 
DOI: 10.1126/science.351.6269.116

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A shot at migraine

1. Emily Underwood

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ILLUSTRATION: DAVIDE BONAZZI/@SALZMANART

As long as she can remember, 53-year-old Rosa Sundquist has tallied the number of days per month when her head explodes with pain. The migraines started in childhood and have gotten worse as she's grown older. Since 2008, they have incapacitated her at least 15 days per month, year-round.

Head-splitting pain isn't the worst of Sundquist's symptoms. Nausea, vomiting, and an intense sensitivity to light, sound, and smell make it impossible for her to work—she used to be an office manager—or often even to leave her light-proofed home in Dumfries, Virginia. On the rare occasions when she does go out to dinner or a movie with her husband and two college-aged children, she wears sunglasses and noise-canceling headphones. A short trip to the grocery store can turn into a full-blown attack “on a dime,” she says.