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Quiet agony: Living with 50 migraines a year

Being in the grip of a migraine feels like a hammer is pounding away inside your eyeball. The world becomes almost threatening: The lowest light feels like a strobe; the gentlest sound is as grating as a jackhammer. When you’re in the throes of an attack, all you want is to lie down alone in a dark room and suffer in silence.

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Killer headache: Migraines hike stroke risk

Beth Leslie had gotten occasional migraines for years. She thought of them as a painful imposition, nothing more.

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