Dolor crónico, corporalidad y clausura: percepciones y experiencias sobre la migraña

Abstract

This article analyzes experiences and perceptions of people who have a chronic pain call by neurologist and patients as migraine. Using interviews from a larger research in a public hospital in Buenos Aires city, this article argue that the experience of migraine change the relationship between patients and his/her social environment. There are things that difference migraine from other chronic diseases. First of all, there is no factual evidence of migraine’s existence, it does not has a certain etiology and it doesn’t has an efficient treatment. Secondly, according to patients, common sense relates migraine to lies and excuses.  

Since a phenomenological and interactionism view this research tries to analyze how pain’s perceptions influence the relationship between the self/body and the world of everyday life. Some categories such us closure, legitimacy and anguish will also guide this article.