A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary

Roughly one in ten Americans lives with migraine, a condition that reaches many households yet is frequently dismissed or misread by doctors. Andrew Levy had dealt with his own version for decades, treating each attack as a nuisance rather than something that reshaped his days. In 2006, a run of attacks arrived almost daily and left him confined to bed for months, held down by nausea and pain that eased only in the softer light of late afternoon. Whenever he could, he logged what set off each episode, from a single drink to a handful of sweets.