Category: Patient Perspective
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2020; Holidays, Covid and Migraine
Written by Kristen Estep for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. So it’s the holidays already. I don’t know about anyone else but this year it just doesn’t feel like it to me. I keep procrastinating on all things holiday. This year has been absolutely nuts! Covid has trashed so many of our plans and traditions that,…
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Reyvow; Two Sides of the Same Coin
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 has progressed over her lifetime and she is now disabled…
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Ubrelvy Is Not Perfect, But It Is Close Enough.
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. My father is also a migraine sufferer…
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Nurtec; Failure and Success Stories
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, a new acute migraine medication. My call to action…
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Nurtec Success Story
Written by Kelly Amspacher for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Oh my heavens…I think I’m having a burst aneurysm and I’m going to die. This is the worst pain imaginable, more than childbirth. Is how I was awakened. Is how I was awakened February 18, 1999. The trip to the emergency room is forever etched…
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My Migraine
Written by Ronetta Stokes for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. My migraine journey began when I was in high school. I would occasionally get headaches (were these migraine attacks). Nothing that I couldn’t handle without medication. Once high school ended I went on to college. I had a few more headaches; nothing major. I was able…
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My husband used to think I had superpowers.
Written by Carlisle Webber for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. One winter night when we were dating, we were talking on the phone and I felt a pinch behind my left eyebrow. I told him he’d better make sure to have the snowbrush and ice scraper in his car because it was going to snow soon.…
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My Closest Friend…
Written by Fiona Nicolas and Graciously shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. It’s very personal and very unlike me but I felt the need to put certain feelings into words…. you are my closest friend. i say i never know when you are coming but you always show up to remind me when i don’t…
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Migraine commercials :
Written by Kelly McCarthy for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Is it just me, or does anyone else cringe every time they see an ad for a new migraine medication. An attractive 30 year old woman is working for a very prestigious company. She’s got a corner office with windows and a presentation to give. Suddenly,…
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My First Migraine Attack
Written by Donna Kobayashi, first seen on MyBeautifulMigraine.blog and shared with Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Migraine has always been a part of my life. So when I was asked about my first migraine experience, I had to think a bit. When was my first memory of this neurological “storm?” And then I stumbled across a…
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