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The Project's Susie Youssef makes shock health confession and reveals she has to keep a bucket under her desk while live on air


Susie Youssef has confessed that she suffers from crippling migraines that force her to keep a bucket under her desk while live on television.

Sufferers sometimes get warning symptoms, such as feeling tired, craving certain foods, changes in mood or a stiff neck before a migraine hits. Other patients use triptans, medicines which work like serotonin - the brain's 'feel good' chemical which helps to calm down overactive pain nerves. According to Dr Amir: 'What it refers to is this unconscious bias that women [have] painful and medical conditions either discounted, or not taken as seriously as men's, simply because of their gender.

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