Author and migraine sufferer Joan Didion once wrote, “That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.”
At that time, migraines weren’t something that could be prevented. Today, that’s a possibility for some people who have severe migraines, frequent migraines (more than three or four times a month), or migraines that don’t respond well to treatment, according to the Harvard Medical School’s HEALTHbeat.