头痛？你不是一个人在战斗(1/2)

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概述：关于头痛的最新研究报告。
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National Headache Foundation
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Curtis Croley
Ellicott City
Maryland
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Have you had a headache recently? If your answer is yes, you are like many millions of people worldwide who experience pain in the head. The pain can be temporary, mild and cured by a simple painkiller like aspirin. Or, it can be severe.
The National Headache Foundation says more than 45 million people in the United States suffer chronic headaches. Such a headache causes severe pain that goes away but returns later.
Some headaches may prove difficult and require time to treat. But many experts today are working toward cures or major help for chronic headaches.
The U.S. Headache Consortium is a group with seven member organizations. They are working to improve treatment of one kind of headache, the migraine. Some people experience this kind of pain as often as two weeks every month. The National Headache Foundation says about 70% of migraine sufferers are women.
Some people describe the pain as throbbing, causing pressure in the head. Others compare it to someone driving a sharp object into the head. Migraine headaches cause Americans to miss at least 150 million workdays each year. A migraine can be mild. But it also can be so severe that a person cannot live a normal life.
One migraine sufferer is Curtis Croley of Ellicott City in Maryland. He had head pain as a child. Mr. Croley says he does not know what kind of headaches they were. But when he suffered severe headaches as an adult, doctors identified the problem as migraine.最近头痛过吗？如果你头痛过，那就表示你和世界上数百万的人一样饱受头痛的困扰。这种疼痛有的是暂时、轻微、可用阿斯匹林治愈的。但是，也有的是极度剧烈的。
美国国家头痛基金会表示，在美国有超过四千五百万的人遭受着慢性头痛的困扰。这种头痛病会导致反复发作的剧烈疼痛。
有一些头痛病的治疗已经被证实是非常困难的，且疗程长久。但如今，许多专家正致力于为慢性头痛患者寻求治愈方法和主要帮助。
美国头痛协会由七个成员组织构成。他们正致力于改善偏头痛的治疗方法。有些人甚至每月两周都被这种头痛折磨着。美国国家头痛基金会表示，大约70%的偏头痛患者是女性。
有些人描述这种头疼是一抽一抽的，并会造成头部的压力。还有人说这种疼痛就像头部被刺入锋利物体般的疼痛。偏头痛使美国人每年至少失去1.5亿个工作日。偏头痛有时是轻微的。但它也可能严重到让人不能过正常的生活。
柯蒂斯·克罗利是一位来自马里兰州伊利科特市的偏头痛患者。他表示自己从小就患有偏头痛。克罗利先生说起初他并不知道这是哪种头痛。但当他成年并经历了这种严重的头痛后，医生诊断是偏头痛。