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Article: Young migraine sufferers rarely seek help
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- March 20, 2000
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Lily Henning
University Wire
03-20-2000
(Daily Collegian) (U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Stephanie Petrahai said she gets severe headaches about once a week. She usually takes a few aspirin and hopes the nauseating pain will subside -- but lately the aspirin have not been helping.
Petrahai (senior-international politics) could potentially be one of the 28 million Americans who suffers from migraine attacks and also one of the 32 percent of those sufferers who have not reported their condition to a doctor, according to a recent study by the National Headache Foundation.
In addition to those statistics, the NHF reported in an earlier study only 15 to 21 percent of college-age migraine ...