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Receiving Migraine Infusions During a Pandemic
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 patient or to a healthcare professional if I’m an unwitting carrier and also some…
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Part Two – Covid-19 VS Chronic Pain 24/7
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 pandemic, finding a new, trustworthy doctor would be a miracle. I called the neurologist’s…
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Part One – Covid-19 VS Chronic Pain 24/7
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. Regardless of the presidential promise and close proximity of the CDC, the tests weren’t available yet…
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#LetsGetAfterIt
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 reporting connected with me in a way that gives me hope that we…
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My Thoughts on Receiving Botox During Covid-19
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 wondered in the past if it was still worth the effort to…
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My Impasse
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 that I wondered, how much time has passed since this unexplainable occurrence?…
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Get Real About Migraine: Peggy’s Story
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 respiratory viruses, which turned into sinus infections. I had…
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Self-Care During the Covid-19 Crisis
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 products and hand and surface sanitizers. We…
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I’m already prepped, how about you?
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 lives. I’ll let you in on some…
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The Global Pandemic
Written by Catherine Charrett-Dykes, President and CEO of Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. pan·dem·ic /panˈdemik/ – (of a disease) Prevalent over a whole country or the world. You might expect this to be about the coronavirus, however it’s about the other global pandemic – migraine disease. Migraine has existed for over 6000 years and impacts one…
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