migraine

Angharad Dennis knew the signs of a stroke because her grandmother experienced them, and having migraines made her wonder if she too might be more at risk.

He was diagnosed with a complex migraine that led to extreme fatigue and body weakness.

But in her late teens, she began getting hammered by excruciating migraines, and later had severe vertigo.

I remain her emergency contact, of course, receiving, over the last few years, texted updates of a midmorning migraine, the just-noticed emergence of a wisdom tooth or a more existential crisis.

Instead, he argued, Anderson’s symptoms were the result of a vestibular migraine, which can be triggered by red wine — among the drinks Anderson consumed that day.