Meghan Markle is known to prioritise her health and wellbeing with it being no secret that the duchess incorporates daily supplements and exercise into her daily routine to keep her in good shape.
The 43-year-old also practices acupuncture, cupping therapy and yoga – approaches which she claims to have been “life-changing” after they helped her overcome a “debilitating” health issue that many don’t know she had.
Meghan previously suffered from very painful migraines that became so bad she ended up in hospital.
Opening up about her hidden illness to living well guide, The Chalkboard, she said: “I have been a long time believer in acupuncture and cupping.
“I used to have debilitating migraines (hospitalised for them), and acupuncture and Eastern medicine absolutely changed my life. Migraine-free living is a game changer.”
Cupping therapy is an ancient healing technique from Asia that people use in an attempt to ease pain.
The therapy involves cups being placed on your back, stomach, arms, legs or other parts of your body with a suction force being applied from inside the cup to pull your skin forward.
Migraines are fairly common, believed to affect around 20 percent of adults in the UK.
The NHS describes migraines as a “very bad headache with a throbbing pain on one side of the head.”
Meghan is not alone in her suffering as her husband Prince Harry is also no stranger to migraines after he previously revealed he too had struggled with intense headaches in the past.
In his 2023 memoir Spare, he recalled details of his own experience with migraines which became so severe he had to be treated with injections.
Reflecting on a particularly awful migraine episode while hiking to the South Pole, he wrote: “Head spins, followed by crushing migraine.
“[There was] pressure building in both lobes of my brain. I didn’t want to stop [hiking] but it wasn’t up to me. “My body said, ‘Thanks, this is where we get off,’. The knees went. The upper torso followed. I hit the snow like a pile of rocks.”
Explaining how he recovered, the duke said: “Medics pitched a tent, laid me flat, gave me some sort of anti-migraine injection. In my buttocks, I think. Steroids, I heard them say. When I came to, I felt semi-revived.”
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