When the first signs and symptoms struck, Pamela Perillo of Tondo, Manila was still in high school and she just dismissed the symptoms as a normal migraine or vertigo and even learned to live with the chronic headaches.

“Hindi ko po siya dati pinapansin kasi akala ko normal na sakit na ulo lang siya, kasi pag umiinom naman ako ng paracetamol, nawawala naman agad yung sakit,” said Pam, who was then a 26-year-old bartender at a five-star hotel in Makati.

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