At times migraines can turn out to be much more than a pain in the head. A variant of the classic migraine with aura is the Basilar Migraine. It was in the past referred to as BAM an abbreviation for basilar artery migraine. Though very rare basilar migraine is fatal and in most cases life threatening.

The basilar artery is responsible for supplying blood to the brain stem and a constriction of this artery leads to the symptoms of basilar migraine. At first it was thought that BAM only affected adolescent girls and women. Research has however shown that it can affect anyone regardless of age and gender though primarily it’s a problem for the initial group (adolescent girls and women).

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