by Kristen Estep | Jun 15, 2020 | Get Real About Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written By Nicole Safran Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org When I first was first diagnosed with chronic migraines after an accident, my family longed to understand what I was experiencing. Many did not know much about migraines prior to me being...
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 | Jun 11, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written by Kristen Estep Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org Gina’s first memory of migraine was when she was about 5 years old, however her mother tells her that she has shied away from all light since birth, and was an extremely colicky baby, so...
by Kristen Estep | Jun 9, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written By Peggy Artman for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. When I was first diagnosed with migraine, there were only a few resources available. It took me so long to get an accurate diagnosis, but my doctors didn’t educate me on my disease. They prescribed a...
by Kristen Estep | Jun 6, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written By Eula Moore-Marshall Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org Upon joining the U.S. Army Reserves, I always kept in mind the possibility of going to war. As far as migraine goes, I was familiar with bad headaches, but I’d never felt as...
by Kristen Estep | Jun 5, 2020 | Get Real About Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written By Angela Dotson for Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. Why is community so important, whether in real life or online? Humans are herd animals. We need other people. We need family or friends (and pets) to lean on in hard times, or to help in hard times. We also...
by Kristen Estep | Jun 3, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Written By Alexandria M. Srbinovski for Chronic Migraine Awareness, Inc. Overview It was a spring day in April and I was only only 28 years old. I woke up around 2am with a horrible migraine- a pain that I never had before. I remember sitting on the end of the couch...
by Kristen Estep | Jun 1, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, MHAM2020, Migraine Community, Migraine In Real Life
Jeannette Rotondi’s Story Written by Kristen Estep Originally seen on MigraineHeadacheAwarenessMonth.org Background Jeannette Rotondi has had migraine disease for 11 years. Shortly after they began her migraine attacks became intractable. Jeannette was newly...
by Kristen Estep | May 28, 2020 | Advocacy and Migraine, Covid-19, Get Real About Migraine, Medication & Treatments, Migraine In Real Life, Patient Perspective
Written By Victoria White Presented by Chronic Migraine Awareness Inc. It is beyond surreal entering a hospital in an almost empty center city Philadelphia right now. I cannot help but feel anxious about the possibility of accidentally spreading COVID-19 to another...
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...
