'My headaches are sometimes like an icepick digging into my face'

Headache disorders are debilitating and painful, but have long been neglected by medicine and dismissed by doctors

Sabina Brennan: "I’ve had migraines since I was a child, and they certainly involve headaches, but they also involve much more than that.” Picture: iStock.

Storm Floris on August 4 was a literal headache for migraine sufferers. When the Irish Examiner spoke to Dr Sabina Brennan the following day, she was still suffering.

“I spent all of yesterday vomiting and overcome with pains in my legs and an intense headache, and I’m exhausted today,” says the 63-year-old neuroscientist and psychologist from Dublin. “My migraines are often triggered by the atmospheric pressure changes that precede a storm.”