**MIGRAINE: Medical Terminology vs Patient Language**

Patients rarely describe their symptoms using terms like photophobia, paraesthesia or visual aura.

Instead, they tell us what they actually feel!

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 **Medical Terminology → Patient Language**

> 🤕 Unilateral headache — однобічний головний біль
> 🗣 “It only hurts on one side of my head.”
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> 💓 Throbbing / pulsating pain — пульсуючий біль
> 🗣 “It feels like my head is pounding with every heartbeat.”
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> 💡 Photophobia — світлобоязнь
> 🗣 “Bright lights make the pain much worse.”
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> 🔊 Phonophobia — підвищена чутливість до звуків
> 🗣 “Even normal sounds seem unbearably loud.”
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> 🤢 Nausea — нудота
> 🗣 “I feel like I'm going to throw up.”
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> 👁️ Visual aura — зорова аура
> 🗣 “I start seeing strange patterns before the headache begins.”
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> ✨ Photopsia — спалахи світла в полі зору
> 🗣 “I keep seeing flashing lights, even when I close my eyes.”
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> 〰️ Scintillating scotoma — мерехтлива скотома
> 🗣 “There's a shimmering zigzag shape in my vision, and I can't see properly through it.”
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> 🫳 Paraesthesia — парестезія
> 🗣 “I get pins and needles in my hand and around my mouth.”
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> 🌫️ Brain fog / Cognitive difficulties — когнітивні труднощі
> 🗣 “I can't think clearly or concentrate on anything.”
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> 😴 Postdrome — постдромальний період
> 🗣 “Even after the headache goes away, I feel completely drained.”
> 
> 🎯 Migraine trigger — тригер мігрені
> 🗣 “I often get these headaches when I haven't slept properly.”


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