Help Find a Cure. Walk or Run With Us!In addition to pain, sickness, and - for many - daily disability, migraine carries a severe burden of discrimination and negativity from...reactions2comments
Cancelling Out the GoodJust as the placebo effect can have a positive impact on treatment results, the opposite can be true as well. It’s called...reactionscomments
Migraines & Food: Cravings, Triggers, Comfort & FreedomNutrition plays a powerful role for the person living with chronic migraine. What we crave can signal the arrival of a migraine;...reactions2comments
Using a smart phone during an attackI admit that I use my iPhone way more than I wish I did. When I see other people in public using...reactions4comments
Breaking my own rulesOkay. It’s confession time. I was packing for my final trip of the summer when I made a startling discovery. Flipping open...reactions8comments
The Impact of Migraine: From Diagnosis to Stigma--> The team at Migraine.com conducted our annual “Migraine in America” survey with the goal of gaining a better understanding of the...reactionscomments
Migraine Minefield: Jury DutyThe dreaded letter came in early July. I was being summoned to jury duty. Ughhhhh. My first reaction was to begin looking...reactions10comments
Understanding the Cynic“Migraine is treatable.” That statement is small comfort to many who have lived with migraine for decades with minimal or substandard treatment...reactions4comments
I admit it: other people's breakthroughs in migraine treatment sometimes make me enviousPretty recently, one of my friends started getting what she believes to be migraine attacks. It sounds like this is most likely...reactions6comments
Gentle Post-Migraine RecoveryAfter a migraine, do you ever have that “beat up” feeling as if you’ve been hit by a truck? That’s your body...reactions9comments
Updates on Promising New Migraine DrugsThe migraine world has been abuzz lately about new drugs in development to prevent migraine attacks. These drugs, called monoclonal antibodies, target...reactions15comments
When I found out that insurance didn't cover a medication I really neededIn 2015, I asked my neurologist about non-oral migraine meds I could try. Most of the time when I get a migraine...reactions30comments
The Messy Wake of Destruction a Migraine Can Leave BehindHas this ever happened to you? You emerge from a multi-day migraine, finally able to leave your bedroom, finally able to even...reactions64comments
When I "lost" medication that was right in front of my faceYou chronic migraineurs know how it goes: you have used as many triptans as you can safely use in one week and...reactions5comments
Video of Botox InjectionsThis video was taken a few years ago by a neurologist, not a headache specialist. At the time, I had to see...reactions6comments
It’s all relativeI love catching up with friends. We’re spread all over the country and so busy managing our daily lives that it’s hard...reactions1comment
"Cluster Migraine"Readers often ask about something they call “cluster migraine”. It’s not an official diagnosis in the International Classification of Headache Disorders, so delving...reactions7comments
Almost a lab ratRecently I noticed a post on our Facebook page that said, “3-8 migraines per month? Consider this study.” Always interested in migraine research, I...reactions4comments
Quality of Life is More Important Than Quantity of Migraine AttacksA friend’s husband told me he has migraine attacks every Saturday and Sunday. “It could be worse,” he said, “but this is...reactions40comments
Paying it forward in the next generationI recently had a frank conversation with my 23 year-old daughter about life with migraine. As many of you know, she was...reactions8comments
