Category: Get Real About Migraine
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Migraine and Mental Health
Written by Judith Flanagan (United Advocacy Australia) for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. This year I am turning 41 years old, and I have lived with migraine for thirty-four of those years. As you can imagine, migraine has most definitely affected my mental health. It has definitely affected my ability to spend long hours working and…
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Stephanie’s Story: Why is migraine so difficult to describe?
Written by Stephanie for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc I have started writing this so many times. It is so hard to put into words how disabling migraine attack is, without it sounding like a bad headache. I thought long and hard about how I would explain it in this blog. I really wanted you to…
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Even Physicians Face Stigma
Written by Yadira Ramos for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Once I turned 30, my migraine attacks became worse. There was a period when I would get them every single day. Back then, I was only working night shifts at the hospital. Little did I know that sleep deprivation was a trigger. I was going through…
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Never Give Up
Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. would like to thank Dolores for her contribution to our blog. My name is Dolores and I have been living with migraine since the age of five. I am now 47. Over the years I have tried just about every treatment available; chiropractor, red light therapy, physical therapy, Botox, and pressure…
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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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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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2020; Holidays, Covid and Migraine
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. So it’s the holidays already. I don’t know about anyone else but this year it just doesn’t feel like it to me. I keep procrastinating on all things holiday. This year has been absolutely nuts! Covid has trashed so many of our plans and traditions that,…
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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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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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