Category: stigma
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Get Real About Migraine: Peggy’s Story
Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. is pleased to present Part Six in our continuing series. Written by Peggy Artman My journey with migraine began when I started having what I believed to be sinus headaches. I went through a phase where I caught a lot of upper respiratory viruses, which turned into sinus infections. I had…
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What Do You See When You Look At Me?
Originally posted on SparklyAura.com Written by Kristen Estep Before chronic migraine if you saw me out in public, you might have looked at me & thought I had it all together. I probably would’ve had a smile on my face, my hair done, dressed nice. “It doesn’t matter how you feel, it only matters how…
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What Would Make Migraine Advertising Better?
Written by Catherine Charrett-Dykes President and CEO Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. There are currently numerous television commercial advertisements discussing medications that are available for various disease states. We have learned about erectile dysfunction, fibromyalgia, psoriatic arthritis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Some commercials do more than inform the public there is help available, they educate people about…
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The Patient Doctor Relationship
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 thoughts like, will they treat me with respect and compassion? Will…
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That Thing Lizzie Did
Originally posted on MyBeautifulMigraine January 16, 2018 Written by Donna Kobayashi It was ~2009 and I was still learning to cope with my migraine changes. I was very clueless about Chronic Migraine as I knew no one with the disease. I was fighting my pants off against it; in the Botox regimen, taking oral preventatives,…
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Life After the Semicolon; Living with Chronic Migraine, Greta continues her story
“This moment brought so much hope into my life that I broke my suicide pact and became determined to live.
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Life After the Semicolon; Living with Chronic Migraine
Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. is pleased to present Part 1 of Greta A. Tramwood’s emotional story. Hi, how are you? You’re good? that’s great… how am I, you ask? I’m fine … well, I’m not really fine, I’m not even OK. Not even close to OK. You see, on Dec 9th, 2017 the migraine gods…
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