Category: Get Real About Migraine
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Getting the Family Involved – Ways Loved Ones Can Spread the Word
Written By Nicole Safran Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org When I first was first diagnosed with chronic migraines after an accident, my family longed to understand what I was experiencing. Many did not know much about migraines prior to me being diagnosed, only hearing the words “migraine” or “headache” in passing, let alone all the complexities…
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Advocate Spotlight – Gina Fabrizio
Written by Kristen Estep Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org Gina’s first memory of migraine was when she was about 5 years old, however her mother tells her that she has shied away from all light since birth, and was an extremely colicky baby, so she may have actually suffered since birth. She states that her symptoms…
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You Need Community; Finding Hope Again
Written By Peggy Artman for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. When I was first diagnosed with migraine, there were only a few resources available. It took me so long to get an accurate diagnosis, but my doctors didn’t educate me on my disease. They prescribed a preventive medication and an abortive medication, but that was all…
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Migraine as a Member of the Armed Forces
Written By Eula Moore-Marshall Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org Upon joining the U.S. Army Reserves, I always kept in mind the possibility of going to war. As far as migraine goes, I was familiar with bad headaches, but I’d never felt as though my brain was trying to escape my skull. I’m a (Ret) female combat…
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Migraine and Headache Awareness Month: You Need Community…
Written By Angela Dotson for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. Why is community so important, whether in real life or online? Humans are herd animals. We need other people. We need family or friends (and pets) to lean on in hard times, or to help in hard times. We also need other people to celebrate the…
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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 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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