Desperate for relief
Mood:  cool
Topic: Prenatal Visits

"My first one happened when I was 14," recalls Marcia Cross, who plays Bree Van De Kamp on ABC's "Desperate Housewives."

"I had this excruciating pain. The school nurse told me to call my mother, and I couldn't remember my phone number, which used to happen to me.

"Someone took me home, and I just writhed in pain in my bedroom," she continues. "I didn't know what was going on, but it was horrible."

Most of us find ways to deal with common headaches, but those who suffer the harsher, debilitating pain classified as migraines often don't realize there's more .

In its Ten Year Report Card on the State of Migraine, the National Headache Foundation estimated that 52 percent of the people whose headaches treatments fit the classifications of migraines have never been diagnosed and are not receiving the most appropriate treatment for their symptoms.