内容摘要："If I catch it soon enough it can sometimes work, when my vision goes fuzzy and I can feel one coming on."

"If I catch it soon enough it can sometimes work, when my vision goes fuzzy and I can feel one coming on."

While there are medical treatments, there is no cure. Prescription medication can be very effective - but it doesn't always work. For many people there is no simple solution.Some discover their own ways of managing the debilitating pain: blasting the side of their face with a hairdryer, or sitting in a hot bath while wearing an ice pack and drinking a smoothie.

But now a new hack has suddenly gone viral - the McMigraine Meal. A simple offering of a full-fat cola and a portion of salty fries seems to be doing the trick for hundreds who've been extolling its virtues on TikTok.If there is any science behind these hacks - what do they do to the body?Nick Cook, from Oxfordshire, carries "a wallet full of drugs" around in case of a migraine attack. He will "try anything" to make the pain go away, he says.

"When you live with the condition, and you're working a five-day week and you need to carry on, you'll give anything a go."At its worst the pain around Nick's eye socket can feel like his eyeball is getting crushed. He says it's the caffeine and sugar in cola that helps him.

"If I catch it soon enough it can sometimes work, when my vision goes fuzzy and I can feel one coming on."

He stresses that drinking cola doesn't replace his amitriptyline tablets - the daily pain medication he takes to try to prevent migraines - but it does sometimes help him "last until the end of the day"."I think I'm really lucky because I've got the most supportive husband, children and their partners and extended family and wonderful friends.

"What this drug can do for me is allow me to see my son's wedding next year and to look into the future."Despite its approval for use globally by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2023, capivasertib only became available to patients via the NHS in England and Wales this year.

Dr Simon Waters, consultant medical oncologist at Velindre Cancer Centre, said it was a "great opportunity now we've got to this point"."People have been working on it for a long time. It's great we can now put it in to practice as a standard treatment," he said.