{"id":2147,"date":"2019-04-24T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:27:29","slug":"my-migraines-turned-out-to-be-genetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/managing-pain\/my-migraines-turned-out-to-be-genetic\/","title":{"rendered":"My migraines turned out to be genetic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-profile-box round ab-has-avatar ab-font-size-14 ab-block-profile ab-profile-columns\"><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"ab-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"ab-profile-image-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"ab-profile-avatar wp-image-2371\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2019\/04\/07211428\/Susan-Headshot-Patient-works-in-Sales.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2019\/04\/07211428\/Susan-Headshot-Patient-works-in-Sales.jpg 200w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2019\/04\/07211428\/Susan-Headshot-Patient-works-in-Sales-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"ab-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Susan Haddon<\/h2><p class=\"ab-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">40 years old. Works in Sales, Dublin<\/p><div class=\"ab-profile-text\"><\/div><ul class=\"ab-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\"><em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/managing-pain\/physiotherapy-people-migraine\/\">I\u2019ve suffered &#8216;headaches&#8217; <\/a>since I was about three years old. I used to complain to my mother about pains in the back of my head. It was alarming for her since I was so young and, being adopted, I had no family medical history to work with.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In my early 20s, I contacted my birth family and discovered a strong genetic link to migraine. It was only then that I was formally diagnosed at the Migraine Clinic in Beaumont Hospital. The wait to access this clinic was over a year at the time, but the care I received there was second to none. And once you\u2019re in the system, it seems easier to access follow-up care.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>There seems to\nbe a migraine-shaped gap in GPs\u2019 knowledge <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, many GPs seem either uninterested or uneducated about the finer aspects of migraine. It leaves many patients in the dark about the condition in general and how to manage it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Organisations like The Migraine Association of Ireland (MAI) are vital to help sufferers understand more about the condition. They also connect with others who can give hints and tips on how best to manage your migraines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I now have a really good GP who helps me manage with prophylactic and acute treatments, but migraine sufferers desperately need more migraine clinics made available to them. And there definitely needs to be more neurologists who have an interest in migraine in public hospitals \u2013 all over the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve suffered &#8216;headaches&#8217; since I was about three years old. I used to complain to my mother about pains in the back of my head. It was alarming for her since I was so young and, being adopted, I had no family medical history to work with.&#8221; &#8220;In my early 20s, I contacted my birth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/managing-pain\/my-migraines-turned-out-to-be-genetic\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[2662,2682],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-managing-pain","tag-managing-pain-2019","tag-migraine-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2019\/04\/07211444\/adorable-beautiful-child-1835926-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2019\/04\/07211444\/adorable-beautiful-child-1835926-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Your Future Career","author_link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/author\/harveyodonnell\/"},"vicky_index_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}