Migraines Can Kill
From headaches.about.com:
Dawn Lewis-Shepherd had severe Migraine attacks every two or three days. What her doctor had prescribed was a combination of pain medications. In May of 2003, she went to an unnamed Migraine clinic and was gold "there was nothing more they could do to help" and that she was overusing her pain medications.
Sadly, on March 25, 2004, a coroner's inquest heard testimony of her death. The pathologist, Dr. Selma Soomro, listed the cause of death as an overdose of her pain medications. The coroner, Dr. Lawrence Addicott recorded her death as a "misadventure," telling the inquest that there wasn't enough evidence to rule it a suicide.
On the morning of her death, Dawn was expecting her mother to visit, and made two telephone calls to her before the expected visit. Her mother arrived to find her on her bedroom floor, dead, with empty prescription packages near her.
At the inquest, Dawn's general practitioner, Dr. Sally Lindsay said, "The headaches she was suffering from were particularly severe and she had visual problems and sickness with them...She was on the maximum amount of medication but continued to have symptoms...She wasn't able to go out or do what she wanted."
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