Category: Covid-19

• Connecting to Migraine Communities

  

  June 12, 2021 Originally posted on MHAM and shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. What was your world like prior to March 2020? Were you working outside of your home? Getting together with friends and family? Going to sporting events, concerts, parties? Enjoying a meal out with friends/family? Going on vacations? Business trips?  Walking around…

  June 12, 2021

  Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Mental Health and Migraines, MHAM2021, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective

  #chronicmigraine, #chronicmigraineawareness, #migraineawareness, #neweraofcare, MHAM2021

• 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…

  May 28, 2020

  Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective

  #chronicmigraine, #chronicmigraineawareness, #CMA, #migraine

• 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…

  May 18, 2020

  Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraines, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma

  #chronicmigraine, #chronicmigraineawareness, #CMA

• 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…

  May 9, 2020

  Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraines, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective

• #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…

  April 28, 2020

  Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma

• 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…

  April 25, 2020

  Covid-19, Medication & Treatments, Migraine Community, Patient Perspective