by Kristen Estep | Jun 12, 2021 | Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Mental Health and Migraine, MHAM2021, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
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?...
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 | 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...
