Table 3 Summary of medical visits in people with migraine
Variables | Migrainea (N = 691) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
n | % | ||
Frequency of medical visits (past 6 months) | > Once/week | 2 | 0.3 |
Once/2 weeks | 0 | 0.0 | |
Once/month | 22 | 3.2 | |
Once/2 months | 10 | 1.4 | |
Once/3 months | 5 | 0.7 | |
< Once/3 months | 5 | 0.7 | |
Reasons for initially seeing a doctor for headacheb (multiple answers) | Unable to tolerate headaches | 106 | 15.3 |
Worried about other brain diseases | 65 | 9.4 | |
Increased headache frequency | 55 | 8.0 | |
OTC analgesics no longer effective | 48 | 6.9 | |
Reasons for seeing a doctor once for headache and not seeing thereafterb (multiple answers) | Relieved not to have a brain disease that threatened life | 18 | 2.6 |
Reasons of not seeing a doctor in the past 3 yearsb (multiple answers) | OTC analgesics effective | 260 | 37.6 |
Used to having a headache | 155 | 22.4 | |
Spontaneously resolving after endurance | 143 | 20.7 | |
Pain not sufficiently severe | 114 | 16.5 | |