People of color face discrimination in diagnosis and treatment of migraines, advocates say
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 3, 2022
Sarah Shaw vividly remembers her first migraine attack. She was 24, and wandering through a haunted corn maze during the Halloween season.
Shaw recalls a sudden feeling of nausea and an intense pain in her head. The lights seemed brighter, the sounds louder — and the maze became a lot scarier than she expected.
“It sounded like everyone was yelling and screaming, but they weren’t. It sounded like they had a megaphone, and they were all yelling at it all at the same time,” Shaw, now 33, remembered.
The West Windsor, New Jersey . . .
