It's my health.Wearing the mask is complicated for migrainers!

To clearly understand the problem of migraines and migrainers who in this period of health crisis difficult to bear the wearing of the mask, we find Jean-Paulhamon, general practitioner in Clamart, in the Paris region, and honorary president of the Federation of Doctors ofFrance.

Franceinfo: So beware, migraine is a real disease.Isn't that a classic headache?

Jean-Paul Hamon, general practitioner: you have people who are forced to lock themselves in a black room, who vomit, and who are often completely unable to work, or to speak with anyone for half a day ora day.So migraine can be extremely disabling, especially when it is often repeated.

So much for the symptoms.We now discover Ophélie's testimony, she is 34 years old, she is an architect, but she had to stop working because of her migraine crises.

Ophélie: I really didn't think my life was going to look like this.That is to say that today, I am 34 years old.I've been working for seven years.I was able to exercise only two years.With my husband, well, it's true that he lives with a patient.It was not at all what we had finally planned...

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And for you, wearing the mask in the middle of Covid epidemic?Is it an aggravating factor?

Ophélie: Yes, completely.So, wearing the mask is very complicated, so I wear it intermittently when I go shopping, when I have a medical appointment, knowing that I have a lot of medical appointments, practically eachonce, I have a migraine afterwards when I wear the mask, I would say more than 45 minutes, we will say that from there, I have a migraine that is triggered.

Jean-Paul Hamon, we see that it is very invalidating, recognizing migraine as a handicap as the association La Voix des Migrainens claims, does that seem justified?

Jean-Paul Hamon: There is some for whom it would be completely justified.It's true.Those who have five, four migraines in the month blocking them an entire day, these should be recognized as having a disabling disease.It is all the harder to bear that often, the migrainers, we seem to treat it over the leg saying: it is psychosomatic or it is anxious people, etc..So they also have the handicap of being considered a bit of imaginary patients....