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Letter: Migraine methods

Published 25 March 2015

From Jan Horton

With a family history of migraineurs going back at least three generations, I was prone to motion sickness which was exacerbated by flickering lights, such as that caused by driving past tall trees. I suffered no headaches until I started using a contraceptive pill in the 1970s.

Frequent migraines occurred thereafter, even without the pill, until a ruptured ovarian cyst resulted in a hysterectomy in my mid-thirties. I haven’t had a migraine in the 30 years since. Drastic, but totally effective.
West Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Issue no. 3014 published 28 March 2015

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