– I often say that when it is at its worst, I really want to throw the head in the wall to make it somehow go over. But it doesn’t work. Bodil Lønntun (48) has had migraines since she was 19 years old. For long periods, the migraine attacks have come for 24 of the days for one month. She has been a lot away from work because of the main work. Ho Meiner a new project at Akershus University Hospital has helped to change her life. The project has meant that Bodil can go on vacation to Italy for the first time in many years. Photo: Marianne Ytre-Eide / news The project started in 2020 and about 100 main work patients participated a quarter of a year until 2022. During this period they managed to reduce the sickness absence of patients by twenty percent. It tells neurologist Kjersti Grøtta Vetvik who has rented the project. Neurologist Kjersti Grøtta Vetvik says that the sickness absence has been reduced by 20 per cent in those who participated in the project. Photo: A-house / news-Before they came to the outpatient clinic and got a medicine. The patients told us about the other complaints they had, but we had no city to send them. Vetvik says that they started treating all the complaints the patient had, and the treatment went on the same city in the hospital with the same team. -Then we created an interdisciplinary team of psychologist, physiotherapist, nurse, NAV lawyer and neurologist, who works closely together around the patient. The project at Ahus is inspired by a Danish model. In Denmark, too, they have reduced the sick leave by having a team treating the entire patient and all the complaints. news has previously stated that only migraines cost the state over NOK 1 billion in sickness money and work clarification money. New numbers news has received from NAV shows that they paid out over NOK 100 million more in sickness money for migraine patients last year than the years before. Over the past four years, the costs of sickness money for these patients have increased by NOK 350 million. Women are significantly more sick of migraine than men, which is why NAV pays far more sickness money to women than men. The only treatment offer in the country now has become part of the treatment offer at A-house. And they hope to get it out at more hospitals in the country. – It should not depend on the choir you live in the country, says Vetvik. State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Care Services Karl Kristian Bekeng says the results of the project are fantastic. State Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Care Services Karl Kristian Bekeng says the project shows it shows the innovation power in our joint health service. Photo: Truls Alnes Antonsen / Truls Alnes Antonsen / news – especially for the patients who have lived with migraines and now can have a much easier day, and who can also work and participate more in society. And then it is fantastic, because it shows innovation power in our common health service, when they get time, space and the opportunity to develop that kind of offer. So now we have to find good ways to spread it. The project at the hospital has also helped patients with neck and back pain, in addition to the main work. 1200 patients have been involved in the projects that, in the follow -up Vetvik, have all had good results. Bodil Lønntun had only one seizure in several days in Italy. Photo: Marianne Ytre-Eide / news for Bodil has the project meant that she now manages to work in a 100 percent position. – Now I have not been our sick leave since I was in that project, in fact in the whole. Before that, there were periods that were so tough that I had to sick leave. She still has migraine between 12 and 17 days a month. But before the project, she had seizures in 24 of the days for a month, tell her. – I have become soft, much better at listening to the body and taking care of my body when he gives me hints that now there is one or another going on. Then she takes more care of it. – I get the stress level down, because stress is also a trigger, at least for me. Published 07.05.2025, at. 22.52
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