Munro said headaches were a grounds of migraine attacks, but truthful were "visual disturbances, nausea and vomiting, sometimes numbness and tingling, sometimes abdominal pain, sometimes dizziness".
They are besides a spectrum condition, she said, from episodic - meaning radical person mild oregon uncommon attacks - to chronic, wherever they person much than 15 days a period affected by migraine symptoms.
"If you person a migraine onslaught and you enactment up with it and past you person different 1 and enactment up with it, your encephalon really gets much irritable," she said.
That means the migraines go much regular and tin go chronic if effectual attraction is not applied.
The archetypal obstruction to treatment, Munro said, is that a batch of radical judge they are "normal headaches".
She said radical should ever get repetitive headaches checked retired by a GP.
The adjacent obstruction is that GPs often conscionable enactment down the headaches arsenic a grounds alternatively than diagnose migraine, portion the 3rd obstruction is the medicine that was offered successful the past, though this has improved successful the past 5 years, she said.
"We request amended acquisition passim the full of nine astir however important migraine is to radical who endure from it."
The Welsh authorities said it recognised the effect migraines could person connected people's lives and guidance was disposable to assistance NHS unit diagnose and negociate conditions.
The UK authorities said the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) had "clear guidance connected the diagnosis and absorption of migraines, and we expect healthcare professionals to travel it and present high-quality attraction to each patients".
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