‘I felt like smashing my head into a wall’: What a migraine can feel like

Ms Vanessa Chia started having migraines in 2019 when she was studying at a polytechnic. A neurologist diagnosed that she was having migraines with aura. ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
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SINGAPORE – Ms Vanessa Chia started having migraines in 2019 when she was studying at a polytechnic. One night, she suddenly woke up to intense pain in her head.

“It felt like a tight force had wrapped around my head and I just could not shake off the feeling,” says the 25-year-old content creator and entrepreneur.

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