Almost five million Australians suffer from migraines, but their condition is not being taken seriously by medicos.

“The economic cost to Australia is 36 billion dollars a year,” Trevor Thompson, the CEO of Headache Australia.
“It’s about $14billion with health systems, $16billion with loss of productivity and and $5billion in other costs like medication etc.”

Mr Thompson says the organisation is always collecting information with the hope of finding a cure in the future and urged sufferers to join the national headache register found at headacheaustralia.org.au.

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