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For almost twenty years 49 year old Stephanie bras struggle with the ability headaches.
Yeah I guess I have had a headache pretty much every day and it just varied in severity whether it's kind of looking woman who walked around with -- The war.
Intrusive Stephanie try multiple medications.
She change her diet and even went to physical therapy doctors had no answers for her.
And last year they had -- became so bad.
That her balance became an issue after breaking her ankle she realize she needed help.
She says one -- visit to doctor Larry Newman had a headache institute at Roseville hospital.
Change her life.
I left with a prescription for medication I vaguely heard of before are filled it Tut and email them like -- -- the next morning saying.
Either and the most suggest -- person in the universe or your right hip check and did it work it literally started to work on the.
-- So what took so long doctor Newman says the rare type of headache that Stephanie suffers from is often misdiagnosed.
The American headache society lectures all over the country to doctors about.
-- Ukrainian continue another headache disorders.
But if the -- rushed and doesn't ask about the constant one -- headache they're not gonna make the diagnosis.
-- -- continue -- is an uncommon form of headache that doesn't stop patients are often diagnosed with migraine -- cluster headaches.
Because some of the symptoms are similar like that constant dull pain on one side of the head mix with periods of severe shooting pain.
Eyelid droop watery -- and threatening.
Of the -- on that side at a stuffy nose doctor Lewis says awareness is important so that researchers can better study what causes this condition.
And if it's treatable you can take a patient whose life is devastated by this condition.
And given their life back not only does the bad headache no way but the underlying -- level discomfort that's always there goes away Stephanie finally feels back to normal.
Had more energy.
To spend Japanese came back from a trip to Alaska.
I don't have to worry about you know hiking area doing physical things with them -- before I would have battled -- -- Concerned about Al Unser.
Yeah -- that my husband on the physical.
And I can be a Fuller participated.
In stopped -- I'm Dr.
Manny Fox News.
