by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Nov 21, 2022 | Get Real About Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, National Family Caregivers Month
Written by Carla Joos for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I would love to tell you about my better half, my partner, my husband of 40 years, the only man I have loved My caretaker Alan. We have been together for fourty years and in that time I can...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Nov 14, 2022 | Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, National Family Caregivers Month
Written by Cynthia Cooper for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I may be the unluckiest girl health wise, but damn am I blessed with my husband. He didn’t quite know what chronic illness world he was getting into when he met me. I was just shy of turning 21 when...
by Erica Carrasco | Oct 11, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, Disparity in Healthcare, Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
By Erica Nicole Carrasco, Achy Smile This article was first published on September 15, 2022 at https://achysmile.com September 15 – October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States Today, September 15, kicks off National Hispanic/Latino...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Aug 17, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Patient Perspective, stigma
Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. would like to thank Roni A.Jones for her contribution to our blog. “Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.” Quote ~ Erving Goffman In the last few years, I haven’t encountered much...
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...
