Cost and Burden of Migraine

The true burden of migraine is an abstract figure. In 2024, it is projected to cost $36 BILLION dollars in the US alone. The statistics are truly staggering. 1 in 6 women (17%), 1 in 17 men (6%), and 1 in 10 children (10%) experience migraine in the US. In fact, about 1 in 4 US households (25%) have a member who suffers from migraine. For those who suffer from migraine, the average annual direct and indirect cost is around $11,500 per person, for the employer and employee combined. What does that exactly mean to you? Well that depends. Are you someone who suffers yourself? Are you an employer with an employee who has migraine? Are you a large employer with employees that suffer from migraine? When you put pencil to the paper and start calculating, the figures grow exponentially.

Let’s break it down.  If you are a small employer and you have 6 female employees and 17 male employees, then the statistics suggest you have 2 employees that suffer from migraine.  2 employees then equal $23,000 in combined direct and indirect costs associated with migraine with 17.8 workdays missed – annually. 

What if you have 60 female employees and 51 male employees?  Statistics suggest you have 13 employees that suffer migraine.  13 employees then equal about $149,500 in costs associated with migraine and 115.7 workdays missed – again annually.

How about one more example?  If you have 29 employees with migraine, who average 8.9 missed workdays each year (per employee), that is roughly 258 missed workdays combined.  In the typical 5 day per week job there are 260 work days per year.  29 employees with migraine would miss on average, annually, the cumulative number of days as one full-time employee.  Read that last sentence again.

How does your company stack up?

Step 1 – Navigate to the migraine calculator, enter info or download!

Step 2 – Calculate the projected burden to you and your employees.

Step 3 – Take action on your newfound knowledge! Schedule your Corporate Wellness Program discovery call today – it’s free! 30 minutes to assess your unique needs. Sign up at https://heal.me/practitioner/christine-m-dean.

Migraine Calculator

I’m excited to announce the launch of my book, Head8che: Relief in the Palm of Your Hand. This book brings to the open minded a way to minimize or reduce pain and symptoms associated with headache and migraine at the first sign before pain has developed fully. By utilizing our inherent ability to work our own energy field we can bring relief from headaches. This book is a series of energetic exercises developed into a powerful headache and migraine relieving tool. These exercises can be done by 1 or 2 people. The exercises can be done sitting or standing by most anyone with mobility that can follow written and visual instructions. I walk you through each step of the exercises in an 8.5″ x 11″ comb bound lay flat book with color photos and written instructions. This book is a how to manual and will get to the point very quickly as I understand how relieving the pain is of upmost importance when symptoms are present. This book is intended for the person seeking relief for themselves and others. This includes pain, nausea, pressure, fuzzy or foggy brain, eye strain etc. Headache and migraine are huge contributors to a massive amount of lost work hours each year and lost school hours for kids. Not to mention the hours of our life that is robbed of us and our families and friends when we can’t be present. There is even speculation that colic in babies may be headaches. What if there was a way to manage the pain and symptoms? Quickly, effectively and with only the motions of our hands? If relief is in reach, will you take it?

There are more than 150 classifications of headaches according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders 3rd Edition published in 2018. With our entire body-health and environmental factors, everything can potentially cause a headache or migraine in a person. This includes, people, pets, plants, food, electromagnetic fields, chemicals, smog, allergies, hormones, emotions, noise, light, sound, injury, disease, medication overuse, the list goes on and on. So let’s flip the script. Let me show you how YOU can to stop it in its tracks. Take back control of your head health. Besides, what do you have to lose except for the pain?