‘Cathartic sharing’ of physical and emotional pain associated with migraines has become common on social media sites such as Twitter.

The researchers found that nearly three quarters of the of migraine tweeters were female, with Americans accounting for 58 percent, while migraine tweets peaked on Mondays with 44 percent admitting that the migraine symptoms negatively affected their mood.
“It's the first known study to show the instant and broad impact of migraine attacks on modern patients' lives by decoding manually each one of their individual attack-related tweets. As technology and language evolve, so does the way we share our suffering”, Dr DaSilva said.
Source-Medindia