How Expensive is Being Sick: The True Cost of Having Chronic Migraines
Being sick is expensive! This is something that I am much more keenly aware of now that I as an adult pay for all of my own things. The intricacies and frustrations of health insurance and drug availability just adds to this issue as well. Here is the breakdown of the costs from my own experience so far as well as the average cost of the most common treatment chronic migraine sufferers are on. *This is NOT a treatment plan recommendation , nor is it necessarily the treatment I am on, just an average snapshot on someone who has the same condition as I do* The estimated yearly cost of chronic migraine is between $8500-$9500, (AJMC). This does not include any other comorbidities that chronic migraine patients have, which was mentioned by the AJMC as being much higher on average than people without chronic migraines. I want to look into how accurate this figure is based on my own experience as well as the current treatments out there for chronic migraine. Many people, mys
