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...
by Kristen Estep | Apr 15, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA Day, Migraine Community
The anniversary of Chronic Migraine Awareness is June 29, 2022 and I thought that it would be nice for all of you to get to know our staff a little better. With that being said, our next series of blog posts will help you to get to know each of us and what drives our...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Mar 17, 2022 | Disparity in Healthcare, Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written by Jaime Sanders and originally published on TheMigraineDiva.com Generously shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness I was extremely amazed and humbled by how many people reached out to me after the Good Morning America segment aired that featured my story. To...
by Kristen Estep | Mar 11, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, Disparity in Healthcare, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc The dictionary defines inclusive as; Including or covering all of the services, facilities or items normally expected or required.Not excluding any of the parties or groups involved in something.Aiming to...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Feb 4, 2022 | Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, Weather related migraine
Written by Becky Briese for Chronic Migraine Awareness My name is Becky Briese and this is my story. I have had migraine and headache since I was eleven years old, but I was not diagnosed as chronic until my late twenties. I had lived in Wisconsin my whole life and...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Oct 28, 2021 | Advocacy and Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, RetreatMigraine 2021
Redondo Beach, California Written by Ronetta Stokes for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. Hmm… hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm Sometimes in our lives We all have pain We all have sorrow While attending RetreatMigraine in person these words...
by Kristen Estep | Oct 22, 2021 | Migraine Community, RetreatMigraine 2021
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I thought that I was going to get to see everyone this year but, I ultimately chose to attend Retreat Migraine (RM) virtually again. Which made me sad, but the virtual option was better than not going at...
by Kristen Estep | Oct 6, 2021 | Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. It has been quite awhile since I have written anything but I need to get some things out of my head. When I don’t write them down they play on repeat in my mind which isn’t good for my migraine or my mental...
