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Headaches from Hell

Claire Whelan

What do Virginia Woolf, Darwin, Chopin and Freud have in common?

They all felt "a thousand hammers" pounding in their heads -- an experience shared by an estimated 10% of New Zealanders who suffer migraines.

Sue Buxton is one of those 350,000. She gets a migraine every two or three months. "It's a constant, very intense pressure behind my eye and it is hell."

Claire Whelan attends Christchurch Girls' High School.