New treatment offers relief for migraines
For James Hamm Sr., migraines could happen at any time.
“They would just come on. It was about an everyday occurrence,” he said.
The severe pain often started at the top of his head and gradually worked its way into his shoulders.
Usually, it left Hamm, 72, of Woodward Township with little choice but to sit down and just wait for the pain to subside.
If he moved, the pain only grew worse.
“It’s just like an illness,” he said.
The migraines began several years ago, after he was long retired from the E. Keeler Co. in Williamsport, where he worked as a boiler mechanic.
Medications such as Aleve would ease the pain just a bit. But for the most part, he was forced to wait out the sometimes daylong migraines.
He underwent MRIs and CAT scans and blood tests in an attempt to uncover the problem but could find no source for them.
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