Author: Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc.
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Migraine and Racial Disparity
Written by Ronetta Stokes for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. As I look back on last month and reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I think back to the,” I Have a Dream Speech”, the marches for equality, and all of the famous quotes. One of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote that stayed with me is…
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Tammy’s Migraine Story
Written by Tammy Berg for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc My first experience with migraine was around the age of twenty-five (not sure about migraine and all they entailed) I went to the hospital. I was given my first shot of Demerol. For the next couple of years, I had them reoccurring about the same time…
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Jenny’s Migraine Story
Written by Jennifer McPherson LEGAL A PW for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. The first time I remember having a migraine attack was in third grade. I was a shy, quiet child so I was nervous about telling the teacher that I didn’t feel well. I was afraid I would make a spectacle of myself. The…
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Deena’s Migraine Story
Written by Deena Patel for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc I remember having what was probably my first migraine when I was about eight-years-old. At the time I didn’t know what it was, all I remember was that I needed to be in a dark room. I started getting chronic migraine attacks seven years ago. I…
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Lori’s Migraine Story
Written by Lori Francisco for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I’d like to share my migraine disease story. I have had migraine since childhood, it runs in my family from my mom, to me and my sister, not my brother but, it continued to my brother’s son. My worst attacks would surround my menstrual cycle and…
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My Twenty Year Migraine…
Written by Melissa Bearden for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I’m Melissa, and I’ve been living with one constant (yes, 24/7 and non-stop) migraine attack for just under 20 years. I had bacterial spinal meningitis (the Haemophilus influenzae type B or HIB strain) with lots of complications when I was a toddler and almost died, it was 13 months before…
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Reyvow; Two Sides of the Same Coin
Written by Jennifer Ross, Tanya L Stewart and Kristen Estep Jennifer was truly kind to share her experience with migraine and medication with us. She states she lives with chronic migraine and has some level of migraine pain every day for 44 years. Migraine disease has progressed over her lifetime and she is now disabled…
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Ubrelvy Is Not Perfect, But It Is Close Enough.
Written by Brandy Garcia I have lived with the ups and downs of chronic migraine for over fifteen years. As you can imagine I have tried numerous preventative and abortive medications. But today I am going to talk about a new medication my father told me about. My father is also a migraine sufferer…
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Nurtec Success Story
Written by Kelly Amspacher for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Oh my heavens…I think I’m having a burst aneurysm and I’m going to die. This is the worst pain imaginable, more than childbirth. Is how I was awakened. Is how I was awakened February 18, 1999. The trip to the emergency room is forever etched…
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My Migraine
Written by Ronetta Stokes for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. My migraine journey began when I was in high school. I would occasionally get headaches (were these migraine attacks). Nothing that I couldn’t handle without medication. Once high school ended I went on to college. I had a few more headaches; nothing major. I was able…
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