by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Feb 9, 2021 | Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Tammy Berg for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc My first experience with migraine was around the age of twenty-five (not sure about migraine and all they entailed) I went to the hospital. I was given my first shot of Demerol. For the next couple of years, I...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Feb 2, 2021 | Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
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...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Jan 9, 2021 | Advocacy and Migraine, Children and Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Melissa Bearden for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I’m Melissa, and I’ve been living with one constant (yes, 24/7 and non-stop) migraine attack for just under 20 years. I had bacterial spinal meningitis (the Haemophilus influenzae type B or HIB...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Dec 6, 2020 | Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
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...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Nov 23, 2020 | Medication & Treatments, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Brandy Garcia I have lived with the ups and downs of chronic migraine for over fifteen years. As you can imagine I have tried numerous preventative and abortive medications. But today I am going to talk about a new medication my father told me about....
by Kristen Estep | Nov 20, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Kristen Estep with contributors; Jenny Jacobs, Nicole Atkins, Jodie Gregg and Jennifer Cook As we all can attest to, migraine treatments that work for some of us, may not work for others. I am bringing you both a failure and success story regarding Nurtec,...
