The Migraine Girl

I'm going to my first therapeutic yoga class in a few minutes. The teacher called me a couple weeks ago to discuss my needs, my health, etc.--so all the activities...

I found this video on YouTube.com. The narrator, Michael Shermer, seems to approach the subject with a healthy skepticism--I like how he doesn't dismiss acupuncturists (and patients) as fools. He...

Did anyone else see this article? It seems to be making the rounds like wildfire--in the headache & acupuncture communities, at least. I've long since been interested in acupuncture but...

This past week I suffered from awful bouts of irate anger (redundant, much?) and moodiness. Though the migraine frequency has lessened, the headaches still come up once a week or...

Of course there are myriad benefits to staying in good shape. Now here's a press release about the link between unhealthy weight and migraine! (And more encouragement for me to...

One of the readers of my blog, T., started emailing me a year ago or so (has it been longer than that, T.?). I'm happy to report that after 19...

I had my much-anticipated appointment at one of our city's hospital's Mind-Body Institute today. The doctor met with me from 10:10 AM - 12 noon, uninterrupted, in a room lit...

Dude, what the hell? (Sorry if I revert to Bill & Ted talk, but I'm quite miffed!) I got a Google blogs alert for a blog entry called "the migraine...

Jenni Prokopy has this wonderful article on ChronicBabe.com this week about setting healthy boundaries in order to keep yourself and your relationships going strong. I love it! Check it out...

And no, I didn't get around to posting this month. Yet again I forgot! :( Happier Holidays: December 2008 Headache Blog Carnival...

Came across this in my daily news search online. Smile!...

Well, there's really not so much bad about feeling good. Now the mission is to find what's good about feeling bad, I guess. The rain came in yesterday and continued...

More than three weeks ago, the very kind MaxJerz from Rhymes With Migraine sent me an email letting me know she'd awarded me with a little something called the Kreativ*...

I've said before that I wouldn't wish the pain, disability, and frustration of Migraine disease on anybody. Now I'm calling myself out--I'm a big, fat liar. I DO wish every...

Yesterday I was in a little thing I like to call a car wreck. Got hit on the driver's side and front of my car when a distracted dude ran...

I have had the scholarship application for the Athens YMCA in my hands for months now. The duty of acquiring all the official documentation to prove that joining the Y...

To everyone who's ever felt out of it or stupid while taking a brain-altering drug: this short but poignant New York Times article by Judith Warner is wonderful! I responded...

I think you should read these tips from Headache & Migraine News on how to effectively evaluate migraine-related news articles you come across. A succinct, smart, and straightforward guide for...

The September edition of the How to Cope with Pain blog carnival is up. This month's theme? "New Beginnings." Check it out here!...

On Sunday at noon, I went to one of Athens's many yoga centers for a yoga nidra class. (I just wrote "noga yidra" and had to erase it. Thanks, Imitrex...