Health. 10 million French people affected by migraine, too often reduced to “a headache”

Migraine, a “simple headache”? No, far from it… contrary to what many patients hear all the time.

Ahead of the second Francophone Migraine Summit*, the association The Voice of Migraineurs provides an overview of this disease. And it’s not brilliant: whether at the level of diagnosis, perception by others or treatments, migraine suffers from many ailments.

One in seven French people

However, the WHO defines it as the second disabling disease in the world, and even the first for women.

In France, 10 million patients suffer from it, with three women for every man. About one in ten children also suffer from migraines.

The very recognition of the affection poses a problem: according to a survey carried out by the association, most patients regret that it is…