However, she is still not satisfied with the advice. If it is up to Koelewijn, more people should be eligible for the compensation. That is why today, in collaboration with Hoofdpijnnet, a network for people with migraine and other types of chronic headaches, she started a petition to amend the conditions.
Because Koelewijn grants other patients the same relief through the medication. Before using the inhibitors, her life looked very different. “In the days before the attack I started having trouble concentrating, I was easily irritated, I couldn’t find words and I got tingling on one side of my body in my tongue and fingers.”
Exhausted
When the attack started afterwards, Koelewijn suffered from extreme headaches, vomiting and was sensitive to light and sound. “And you have no idea when it will stop.” After such an attack, she was exhausted. “So if you have this multiple times, you’ll be busy with it all month.”
It’s a dark world to live in, says Koelewijn. “Migraine is so much more than a little headache. It’s a neurological hereditary condition that makes it almost impossible to meet because you never know when you’ll have another attack.”
NOS op 3 previously made this special in which you experience for yourself what a migraine attack can feel like:
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