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Celeste has been living with migraine for over 30 years. During that time, she’s learned that managing the disease can be hard to juggle with working and raising children. But over the years, she’s made time to work with her neurologist to identify symptoms that start early in her migraine attacks and likely mean a migraine headache is on the way.
Celeste’s early migraine symptoms include:
Those are just a few of the many different early warning symptoms people with migraine experience. Others include:
The early migraine symptoms here may occur in the first phase of a migraine attack, called the prodrome phase, which can start between two and 48 hours before the headache begins.1,3 Studies have shown that between 38 percent and 77 percent of people diagnosed with migraine experience symptoms in the prodrome phase.2,3
It’s possible to treat migraine in this prodrome phase if you work with your doctor.3,4
Like many people living with migraine, Celeste views her neurologist as a great source of advice on how to live a better life while managing the disease. She has picked up several helpful tips during her neurology visits.
For example, because one of Celeste’s prodrome symptoms is stiffness or tightness in the neck or shoulders, her neurologist suggested placing heat or ice on the back of her neck and shoulders to “loosen things up” and make her more comfortable, she says.
Celeste has also learned to always carry migraine medication so that if she experiences early signs of a migraine, she can treat it right away. Also, to identify those early signs, Celeste says her doctor had her start a journal to log her symptoms so they could identify patterns and come up with a plan together to treat them.
Whether you were recently diagnosed with migraine or — like Celeste — have been living with the disease for decades, your physician can be a valuable source of new advice. Talking with your doctor about symptoms that can occur in the prodrome phase of migraine might help you predict when a migraine headache is about to happen.4 It’s possible that in some scenarios, you too may be able to identify symptoms you can treat early and avoid some migraine headaches.4
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Watch Celeste talk about how she made the connection between pre-headache symptoms of migraine and early migraine treatment through her migraine action plan. |
Watch Celeste talk about her strategy for handling migraine symptoms during inconvenient times. |
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Manuel Penton, M.D.
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