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Migraine is a chronic, episodic primary headache. Symptoms typically last 4 to 72 hours and may be severe. Pain is often but not always unilateral, throbbing, worse with exertion, and accompanied by autonomic symptoms (eg, nausea; sensitivity to light, sound, or odors). Fortification spectra and other transient focal neurologic deficits occur in a few patients, usually just before the headache, also known as aura.<ref name="Merck Manual">Beers MH, Porter RS, Jones TV, Kaplan JL, Berkwits M. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 18th ed. Whitehouse Station:Merck Research Laboratories; 2006: 1847-1849</ref> Diagnosis of migraine can usually be made by history alone. Treatment includes lifestyle changes (diet, exercise, sleeping habits), medications including NSAIDs, analgesics, serotonin receptor agonists, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and antiemetics.<br> | |||
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Definition/Description[edit | edit source]
Migraine is a chronic, episodic primary headache. Symptoms typically last 4 to 72 hours and may be severe. Pain is often but not always unilateral, throbbing, worse with exertion, and accompanied by autonomic symptoms (eg, nausea; sensitivity to light, sound, or odors). Fortification spectra and other transient focal neurologic deficits occur in a few patients, usually just before the headache, also known as aura.[1] Diagnosis of migraine can usually be made by history alone. Treatment includes lifestyle changes (diet, exercise, sleeping habits), medications including NSAIDs, analgesics, serotonin receptor agonists, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and antiemetics.
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- ↑ Beers MH, Porter RS, Jones TV, Kaplan JL, Berkwits M. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 18th ed. Whitehouse Station:Merck Research Laboratories; 2006: 1847-1849
