by Kristen Estep | Aug 8, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life
Written by Kristi Estep, Shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I have been having a pretty bad flare for almost the last three weeks. I need to write to get these demons out of my head. I hope that I can start to purge the negative thoughts by writing this...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Jun 29, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, MHAM2022
Catherine Charrett-Dykes is President, founder and CEO of Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. established in 2009 and in 2012 it received non-profit status. CMA currently has over 50,000 members on social media and includes various online support and education groups....
by Kristen Estep | Jun 22, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Directors, MHAM2022, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
I am Kristi Estep and I am the Blog Director for Chronic Migraine Awareness, I also work from home for Discover Financial Services and Tori Belle Cosmetics. My husband and I have been married for 31 years and we have two adult daughters and four fur babies (3 dogs and...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Jun 15, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community
For as long as I can remember, I have lived with migraine disease. Except that, growing up, I didn’t know that’s what it was because no one took me seriously. I was finally diagnosed after my son was born in 2000, when I almost immediately became chronic. Currently, I...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Jun 8, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA Directors, Migraine In Real Life
Elizabeth Arant has been a migraine patient for over 30 years and a chronic migraine patient for over 20 years. While having chronic migraine she received her Undergraduate and Graduate degrees in Nursing. Although she is not practicing Nursing at this time, she...
by Kristen Estep | Jun 6, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, MHAM2022
Written for Migraine and Headache Awareness Month (MHAM), and shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness June 29, 2012 Where were you? What were you doing? Can you remember? I sure don’t! But if you ask Catherine Charrett-Dykes where she was, she vividly remembers. June...
by Nancy Bonk | May 31, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Nancy Harris Bonk, the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc, is a patient leader and educator who has been helping those living with migraine disease since 2003. She developed episodic migraine disease during puberty. Then, in...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | May 24, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
I have had migraine for as long as I can remember. Migraine has been a part of my life for nearly all of it, which is well over 40 years! I became chronic daily 19 years ago and my currently diagnosis is chronic intractable migraine with aura. I have been spreading...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | May 10, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community
I’m Julie Tazzia. I’ve been living with migraine for over half a century. I wasn’t diagnosed, however, until about 14 years after my attacks began. I started out episodic, but gradually became chronic. Both of my daughters have migraine as well. Of all the things...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | May 2, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Hello CMA friends! My name is Beth. I joined the CMA team about a year and a half ago when they started a series of short surveys. I’ll admit that after the first one, I couldn’t help myself from reaching out with some feedback on ways to improve it. I ended up...
