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" Patients who get migraine headaches often suffer worse social stigma than those with epilepsy, a study has found. Migraine involves severe headaches accompanied by nausea and light sensitivity that prevents people from going about their daily routine. Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in the US have now discovered that society often takes a more disapproving view of migraine patients than it does of people with epilepsy. Published in the journal PLoS One, the research involved a survey of 123 people with episodic migraine, 123 with chronic migraine and 62 with epilepsy - a disease well-known for the stigma associated with it. Analysis revealed that stigma was worse for people with chronic migraine - defined as more than 14 headaches per month - than for those with episodic migraine - 14 headaches per month or fewer - or epilepsy. The survey also showed that people with chronic migraine tended to report a greater inability to work than those with epilepsy, with many having to stay in bed for hours at a time, several times per month. Lead researcher Dr William Young, a neurologist at the university, said: &amp;#039;When people treat my patients as if they are to blame because they have a severe, debilitating disease, they are contributing to the problem and making life harder for them.&amp;#039; He added that the fact that people with severe migraine may not be able to work &amp;#039;is what causes the stigma&amp;#039;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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