They regularly suffer from attacks of pain that overshadow their lives.And they are regularly confronted with prejudice and supposedly hot tips for miracle cures: Migraine sufferers have to contend with several adversities.There are two phrases to which migraine sufferers react allergically after decades of suffering.They begin with the words "Have you ever tried..." and "I just read that there is something new against migraines...".Yes, the list of alleged miracle cures is long.Sometimes it's powders made from spirulina algae, sometimes Far Eastern meditation techniques - or very simple vitamin D tablets.And when a "migraine mask" was recently presented in the Vox show "Die Höhle der Löwen", former Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg was not the only investor who jumped on it.Many a migraine patient got a call from relatives after the show.They reported hopefully about the soft mask that you fill with cooling pads and pull over your eyes and ears.Sometimes migraineurs say thank you for such a tip.Sometimes they react irritably: "Do you really think a fleece mask with cooling pads will help when a thunderstorm of pain is raging in my head?" Because the subliminal reproach is often in the room that the patients themselves are to blame for their misery - because they experimented too little ."Many of those affected find such advice stressful," says Veronika Bäcker, President of the German Migraine League from Landau."With other illnesses, you don't always give such tips."There have been cases where patients have had a stroke.Veronika Bäcker, President of the Migraine League, on rough treatmentsIn any case, bakers have not yet come across the one true miracle cure."There are individual cases in which a remedy such as vitamins helps a person affected - perhaps also because of the placebo effect," she says.“But there are many myths and false promises of salvation.Migraines are complex.We always say: see what science says.”More on the topic of therapy options for migraines Karlsruhe migraine doctor: "Nobody has to suffer from headaches every day" by Julia WellerKarlsruhe migraine doctor: “Nobody has to suffer from headaches every day”Nothing at all keeps Baker from eye laser treatments for migraines."It's a pseudo-scientific explanatory model," she says firmly.The effect of globules?"I put a big question mark behind it!"And migraineurs should also be careful before they have so-called Atlas corrections made in the spine and neck area."There are also coarser, jerky methods," warns the president of the patients' association."There have been cases where patients have had a stroke."Bäcker describes another argument that migraine patients hear as “impudence”: They wanted to be ill – the excruciating pain attacks are solely psychological.However, two other theses are considered to be accepted.First, migraines are often hereditary.Secondly: "Migraine is something like a short-circuit in the system that releases the neurotransmitter CGRP." This is how Bäcker explains it in layman's terms.This leads to inflammation and pain in the meninges.Yes, the monthly injection of antibodies against the protein CGRP helped Bäcker personally - but this therapy is by no means effective for all patients, she emphasizes.Everyone reacts differently.Also on the so-called triggers, the migraine triggers.Wine, cheese and chocolate have a bad reputation there.Lack of sleep, poor nutrition and lack of exercise are also said to promote the excruciating pain attacks.Do migraineurs live too unhealthily?For fear of this accusation, some of those affected like to list everything that has not helped against the seizures: “Regular sport?No effect.abstinence from alcohol?Regardless of whether I drink or not, migraine attacks regularly catch up with me.Healthy eating?Zero change.”More on the subject of injections bring relief Not “just a headache”: when migraine attacks regularly end up in the hospital by Julia WellerNot “just a headache”: When migraine attacks regularly end up in the hospitalOther migraine sufferers, on the other hand, swear: “I don’t touch red wine at all anymore.” Or: “I’ll atone for sparkling wine immediately.And short nights too.” The next recommends: “Ice-cold beer even helps against migraines.”Acupuncture, beta blockers or muscle relaxation exercises can sometimes provide relief.Epilepsy medication helps some patients.Migraine patients can even have a kind of brain pacemaker surgically inserted: it uses electrical nerve impulses to reduce the attacks.However, such an intervention is only for the chronically ill who can hardly work.Many other patients swallow a tablet from the triptan drug group every few weeks – because it “blows away” their migraines.Does it comfort some patients that they enjoy exotic status?They should be sensitive and very talented.Migraines are even flatteringly called the “disease of geniuses”.Nobel Prize winners Albert Einstein and Marie Curie were said to suffer from migraines, as did Vincent van Gogh.Salvador Dalí is said to have painted his famous melting clocks during a migraine attack, and Richard Wagner is said to have set the tormenting headache to music in his operas, so to speak."There's definitely something to it," says Baker.“Those affected often have a powerful brain that can absorb a lot.Sometimes people also talk about the Ferrari in the brain.”There is also the theory that migraineurs, for example, perceive thousands of shades of green in nature – much more than the average person.The migraine is interpreted as a "cleansing thunderstorm" for the overflowing brain."Even a Ferrari has to go to the workshop sometimes," says the President of the Migraine League.Migraine sufferers should beware of constant overload.However, Bäcker adds: It is by no means only the super-talented “high-flyers” who are tormented by migraines.There are, so to speak, many Golfs among them.It is also called: "widespread disease migraine".Link tip The German Migraine League offers a great deal of information and online seminars on the subject of migraines at www.migraeneliga.de.The German Migraine League offers a great deal of information and online seminars on the subject of migraines at www.migraeneliga.de.Migraine sufferers don't make up their sufferingEven children suffer from migraines: where does it come from and what helpsNew coronavirus mutant discovered in France