by Kristen Estep | May 28, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written By Victoria White Presented by Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. It is beyond surreal entering a hospital in an almost empty center city Philadelphia right now. I cannot help but feel anxious about the possibility of accidentally spreading COVID-19 to another...
by Kristen Estep | May 18, 2020 | Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma
Written by Rachel Huley Presented by Chronic Migraine Awareness The difficulty of finding a doctor for an invisible illness is hard enough every day of the year when hospitals aren’t flooded with contagion and warranted mass hysteria. During a world-wide health...
by Kristen Estep | May 9, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Rachel Huley Presented by Chronic Migraine Awareness It was the first week of working from home that my latest migraine attack began. Mid-March covered the South in pollen and misinterpreted the Atlanta population’s allergies for Coronavirus symptoms....
by Kristen Estep | May 4, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Medication & Treatments, Migraine Community, Patient Perspective
Written by Nicole Safran, Presented to you by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I am sure almost all of us have had some disruption of care during COVID-19, whether it’s in-person doctor’s appointments or routine procedures such as Botox, never blocks, and injections....
by Kristen Estep | Apr 28, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma
Written By: Catherine Charrett-Dykes Founder and President of Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Dear Chris, For the past month or so now, the nation has watched you live and report on your experience with this new disease, this new pandemic – Coronavirus. Your...
by Kristen Estep | Apr 25, 2020 | Covid-19, Medication & Treatments, Migraine Community, Patient Perspective
Written By: Peggy Artman, for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I have been getting Botox injections to help with my chronic migraine attacks every quarter for more than five years. My migraine disease is stubborn and has not responded to very many medications. I...
by Kristen Estep | Apr 19, 2020 | Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. is pleased to present The Struggle of Understanding My Migraine Disease Written By: Alexes Elizabeth It was too hot, maybe? Did I just faint on the schoolyard playground? After many hours of traveling out-of-state, it was at a park...
by Kristen Estep | Apr 4, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, stigma
Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. is pleased to present Part Six in our continuing series. Written by Peggy Artman My journey with migraine began when I started having what I believed to be sinus headaches. I went through a phase where I caught a lot of upper...
by Kristen Estep | Mar 29, 2020 | Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Peggy Artman for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. In my state, we are not officially quarantined, but we might as well be since we are required to follow the federal and state protocols. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of all the worries about paper...
by Kristen Estep | Mar 21, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I would like to start by saying that I hope you are not quarantined, but if you are there are some lessons you can learn from the invisible illness community. We are experts on self quarantine, this is our...
