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...
by Kristen Estep | Mar 21, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. I would like to start by saying that I hope you are not quarantined, but if you are there are some lessons you can learn from the invisible illness community. We are experts on self quarantine, this is our...
by Kristen Estep | Feb 3, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma
Written by Deborah Bloom, for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. How do you feel before seeing a new neurologist or headache specialist? What thoughts go through your head as you anticipate going to meet a new neurologist or headache specialist? For me it had become...
