Category: Mental Health and Migraines
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Gelcys’s Myth, Truth, Action
Chronic Migraine Awareness would like to thank Gelcys Castaneda for sharing 1.- Myth: It’s all in your head- Migraine is a mental health disorder Fact: Migraine is NOT a mental health disorder. Migraine is a disabling neurological disease. It requires medication, care, and constant observation with many trips to the ER to get…
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Hello Again My Friends
Written by Kristi Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. It has been far too long since I have written or posted anything on here. So I am saying Hello again to you! I have been dealing with several personal issues over the last year and a half, one of which is my all encompassing clinical…
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Elizabeth’s Story: Chronic Migraine Was the Center of My Life
Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. would like to thank Elizabeth for sharing her story with us. Life is my trigger and I tough through it with a strong mindset! That’s my motto now, but it took me a long time to get this point. Living with migraine and then it turns to chronic migraine and then…
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SOMETIMES I WISH YOU KNEW HOW THIS FEELS….
Originally posted on SparklyAura.com, shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Sometimes I wish you knew how this feels. The searing hot pain in my eye, head, neck, face, ear, jaw and skin. The never-ending nausea & vomiting. The overactive senses, light hurts, touch hurts, hearing amplified x1000, having the nose of a bloodhound even when…
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Educate Yourself Educate Others
Chronic Migraine Awareness would like to thank Marianne for providing us these helpful tools. Migraine Books and LinksAs a migraine sufferer, I am always interested in finding a solution or at least talk about what might and might not help. Therefore, I created a list three years ago with links to anything that could be…
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Kayley’s Story: When Chronic Migraine Derailed My Life
Chronic Migraine Awareness would like to thank Kayley for sharing her story with us. I would like to share my story, I’m just a normal, young married, working mother of 2 amazing boys ages fourteen and ten. I have always been on the go, busy and never suffered any real ill health. That was until…
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Celebrating our Care Partners; Cynthia’s story
Written by Cynthia Cooper for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I may be the unluckiest girl health wise, but damn am I blessed with my husband. He didn’t quite know what chronic illness world he was getting into when he met me. I was just shy of turning 21 when we first started dating. My now…
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I disappear
Written by Kristi Estep, Shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I have been having a pretty bad flare for almost the last three weeks. I need to write to get these demons out of my head. I hope that I can start to purge the negative thoughts by writing this post. The chronic migraine pain…
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Becky’s Migraine Story
Written by Becky Briese for Chronic Migraine Awareness My name is Becky Briese and this is my story. I have had migraine and headache since I was eleven years old, but I was not diagnosed as chronic until my late twenties. I had lived in Wisconsin my whole life and found that weather changes were…
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Roni’s Reflection from RetreatMigraine
Redondo Beach, California Written by Ronetta Stokes for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. Hmm… hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm Sometimes in our lives We all have pain We all have sorrow While attending RetreatMigraine in person these words resonated with me. We all have pain, we all have sorrow. The weekend brought together a community of people living…
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