My sister endured and suffered from frequent severe headaches for many years. It was a part of her life and she had become so used to them that it had become a part of her life’s routine. She ended up taking a lot of medicines to subdue the pain but most of the medicines that she took over the years were able to only reduce the pain to a dull ache. None of the medicines that were tried out obliterated the pain altogether.
The issue took a serious turn when other symptoms started appearing and my sister started to get sudden blackouts. These evolved into situations wherein she lost control of her body and fell, in turn hurting herself. More doctors and more medicines followed but there was no respite. Some doctors tried over-the-counter medicines and the others prescribed sophisticated drugs. But none of them could really understand the real reason behind these headaches.
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