Amgen and Novartis
It took meeting a college classmate who had been diagnosed with migraine for Karamo Brown, a cast member of the Netflix show
Queer Eye, to realize there was a name and diagnosis for the debilitating headaches he’d been experiencing since he was a teenager. It clicked for me, says Brown, now 40. “I was like, ‘Oh, you can actually go to the doctor for this, you can talk to somebody? Oh, my gosh!’ And also, ‘I’m not alone with this feeling? You’re feeling exactly what I’m feeling?’” he recalls.
Unfortunately, Brown’s experience is not unusual. The majority of people with migraine never seek medical care for their pain, and more than half of people with migraine are never diagnosed, according to the Migraine Research Foundation.