by Kristen Estep | Jun 24, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written By – Kristen Estep Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org I have had migraine since the age of 12, I had headaches before that for most of my childhood but did not receive a diagnosis until adulthood. My migraines remained episodic until...
by Erica Carrasco | Jun 22, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma
Written by Erica Carrasco, aka Achy Smile Presented by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Back in the olden days…well more like 16 years ago…when my migraine attacks turned into a limping, stuttering, one-eyed, drooling monster I knew of no one living through the same...
by Kristen Estep | Jun 13, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written By Jamie Valendy Presented by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. My journey has a clear before and after line: October 2008. I was in a car accident, which involved a concussion and resulted in post-traumatic headache and migraine disease immediately becoming...
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 | Mar 29, 2020 | Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Peggy Artman for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. In my state, we are not officially quarantined, but we might as well be since we are required to follow the federal and state protocols. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of all the worries about paper...
