Seventy-five percent of those who get migraine headaches are women. In the United States, one of every five women gets migraine headaches.
Doctor Glen Solomon is a headache expert at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Doctor Solomon says migraine headaches cost a great deal in human suffering. He says they also cause major financial losses because migraine sufferers are unable to work when they get the headaches. Doctor Solomon says the average migraine patient is between twenty-five and fifty-five years old.
Carolyn is a person who suffers from migraine headaches. For many years Carolyn's life was limited because of repeated migraine headaches. Her story is similar to many who suffer such headaches.
Other members of her family had the same problem. That is true of ninety percent of migraine patients. Researchers believe that parents can pass the problem of migraine headaches to their children.