by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | May 24, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
I have had migraine for as long as I can remember. Migraine has been a part of my life for nearly all of it, which is well over 40 years! I became chronic daily 19 years ago and my currently diagnosis is chronic intractable migraine with aura. I have been spreading...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | May 2, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, CMA 10th Anniversary, CMA Day, CMA Directors, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Hello CMA friends! My name is Beth. I joined the CMA team about a year and a half ago when they started a series of short surveys. I’ll admit that after the first one, I couldn’t help myself from reaching out with some feedback on ways to improve it. I ended up...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Mar 17, 2022 | Disparity in Healthcare, Get Real About Migraine, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written by Jaime Sanders and originally published on TheMigraineDiva.com Generously shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness I was extremely amazed and humbled by how many people reached out to me after the Good Morning America segment aired that featured my story. To...
by Kristen Estep | Mar 11, 2022 | Advocacy and Migraine, Disparity in Healthcare, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, stigma
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc The dictionary defines inclusive as; Including or covering all of the services, facilities or items normally expected or required.Not excluding any of the parties or groups involved in something.Aiming to...
by Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. | Feb 4, 2022 | Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective, Weather related migraine
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...
by Kristen Estep | Oct 6, 2021 | Get Real About Migraine, Mental Health and Migraine, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. It has been quite awhile since I have written anything but I need to get some things out of my head. When I don’t write them down they play on repeat in my mind which isn’t good for my migraine or my mental...