Living with Migraine

Last week, the university where my husband is an instructor held a "teach-in" about the opioid crisis. Mainly populated with speakers from mental health agencies and youth social workers, the...

You make plans and then hold your breath. Will this be yet another commitment you’ll have to break because of a migraine? Why does it feel like migraines are starting...

I have worked in the oil and gas industry for the last six years. I am a multi-craft tradesman, which has allowed me to work almost continually depending on my...

The two biggest questions on the mind of a person living with are: In Part 1 of this series we explored how to identify your food triggers with the elimination...

Missed phone calls, ignored voicemails, and unopened emails plague me when I’m in a bad migraine spell. The messages pile up for weeks or months and nag at me all...

Isn’t it interesting how migraine flare-ups are referred to as “attacks"? This word, which is associated with war, brutality, and aggression, is an apt term for the way migraine causes...

During the 60th Annual American Headache Society (AHS) Scientific Conference in San Francisco, I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Dr. David Dodick, professor of neurology and a...

It is a beautiful, calm, and rainy spring morning. Glassy water drops paint the window panes in my room in fleeting, translucent patterns. The water is mesmerizing to watch. The...

Recent changes have had a tremendous and far reaching impact on what health insurance companies charge and how much they cover for services provided. Migraineurs are not only living with...

Congratulations! You’re expecting, adopting, or your child was just born! The old cliché is true: it’s an exciting time, but also a challenging one. I’m a new mom of a...

Living with migraine pain can be difficult to say the least. When you consider everything that comes along with ongoing pain, I am amazed that we get anything accomplished during...

Now that Aimovig has been released and dispensed to those with migraine disease all over the country, more of us than ever may find ourselves, all at once, facing that...

Dear Loved One, Bringing migraine into a conversation can be like dropping a bomb on the table. Everyone is terrified by it, but no one knows what to do about...

I know I can’t be the only one out there who’s doing it. Several times a month, I check my supply of rescue medications to be sure I have enough...

Everyone who’s had a migraine knows how debilitating they are. Worst still is that the nausea can be so bad that eating at all during an episode is simply not...

For quite some time, my migraine episodes seemed to be becoming more and more frequent. That seems to have tapered off and actually gone back down to just a few...

When my first hemiplegic migraine struck in August, I thought I had enough knowledge to handle it myself, but I treated with Sumatriptan, which I know now isn't recommended due...

I am a fairly energetic person, or at least I was before the migraines became so consistent. Even through the episodic migraines I have lived with for years now, I...

I have referred several times, most recently in my article about trying oxygen therapy, to the fact that I had a nationally known neurologist / headache specialist, which is, you...

What were you thinking messing with your diet the day before a concert? You know better than that. And you made it even worse by taking a triptan. Why did...