With more than one in ten Americansa??and more than one in five familiesa??affected, the phenomenon of migraine is widely prevalent yet often ignored or misdiagnosed. For Andrew Levy, his migraines were occasional reminders of a persistent illness that hea??d wrestled with half his life. Then in 2006 Levy was struck almost daily by a series of debilitating migraines that kept him essentially bedridden for months, imprisoned by pain and nausea that retreated only briefly in gentler afternoon light. When possible, he kept careful track of what triggered an onset and in luminous prose recounts his struggle to live with migraines, his meticulous attempts at calibrating his lifestyle to combat and avoid them, and most tellingly, the personal relationship a migraineur developsa??an almost Stockholm syndromea??like attachmenta??with the indescribable pain, delirium, and hallucinations. Levy researched how personalities and artists throughout historya??Alexander Pope, Freud, Virginia Woolf,...

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