The patient seemed desperate. I am her last hope, said the woman in her mid-sixties and told her story. For the past 15 years, she has been woken up almost every night at around 3 a.m. by a severe headache. Then she gets up and walks around, after about an hour the pain is gone. The next morning she usually feels devastated, also because she often cannot fall asleep again at night.
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