Complacency
Complacency occurs when a standard of practice in any field goes unchanged or unchecked for too long. The medical profession …
Steven Workman
Unavoidable Collisions
From time to time, we find ourselves faced with tasks or situations we know ahead of time are going to …
Powerless
As the primary at home caregiver to my wife, I have had quite a bit of experience in dealing with …
Coping with Stress and Tension Migraines
As an episodic migraine sufferer and a caregiver to a chronic migraine sufferer, I have found that there are some …
A Caregiver’s Honest Look at the Long-Term Effects of Chronic Migraine
By the time my wife and I met, she had already been suffering with chronic daily migraines for years. Due …
Work and Migraine: A Juggling Act
On most days, dealing with a serious migraine means leaving work early. Some days it means not going in to …
Migraine Insomnia
In the last few weeks, I have had several migraines that made it all but impossible to sleep. It is …
Caregivers, Advocacy, and Doctors
As a caregiver to someone with chronic pain, you are counted on to be an advocate for their treatment. You …
Relief… It Can Come From the Strangest Places
In order to not sound misleading, the doctor I see for migraines has not changed. The recent successes I have …
Working My Way Back into Old Triggers (and Perhaps Some New Ones)
For the last six years I have worked in the Oil & Gas industry. I am a multi-craft tradesman, which …
There is a Jekyll and Hyde in All of Us
Whether you suffer from episodic or chronic migraine, or you are a caregiver to someone who does, there seems to …
Hard to Focus
Living with migraine pain can be difficult to say the least. When you consider everything that comes along with ongoing …
Worsening Episodic Migraine
For quite some time, my migraine episodes seemed to be coming more and more frequent. That seems to have tapered …
Draining the Life Out of You
I am a fairly energetic person, or at least I was before the migraines became so consistent. Even through the …
Trigger Traps
Knowing which triggers to avoid and more specifically how to avoid them, makes it frustrating when we fall into the …
Coping Mechanisms
With all of the medications and treatments currently available for migraine, there are probably more combinations than I can count …
As A Caregiver: Do You Know What to Do?
As a caregiver to someone with chronic pain, I often find myself in a position of having to locate my …
COPD Affecting My Migraines
My episodic migraines started while I was serving in the military. Once I got out of the military, I expected …
A House of Migraines
Caring for my wife through her chronic daily migraine struggles, I have seen her experience varying symptoms with her pain. …
I Don’t Know How She Does It
My wife and I have been together for the last seven years. In that time, I have learned what it …