Sunshine Gentile’s migraines started out feeling like the flu. She was 36 when they began, giving her an aching head and muscles and fatigue. The pain was worse if she moved around. Eventually, her migraines grew so bad that she'd be in bed for a week, and doctors couldn’t tell her why it was happening.
What she did know, and what frightened her, was that the painkillers that the doctors prescribed either didn’t work for long or came with unbearable side effects.
