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Jenni over at ChronicBabe.com wrote a post recently that really hit home, so much so my eyes teared up in empathy several times. I thought I'd share it here...

I'm at my favorite local coffee joint, Jittery Joe's (which is now opening franchises around, though the Five Points location in Athens shall never be beat!). Back when I used...

The April Pain Blog Carnival is now posted at How to Cope with Pain. The entry I provided is one several of you have probably read before, but I thought...

You may have read about Health Central's Migraine & Headache Poetry Contest here on my blog or somewhere else on the net. Yesterday, the winners were announced! I haven't gotten...

I've found the more I learn about Migraine disease--what it is and what it is not--the stronger my tendency to deliver unsolicited advice to strangers and friends alike. Just tonight...

I'm nearing my second day of the steroids. Granted, I took my first set of pills last evening around 8:30, so really the first and second days' worth of 'roids...

My neurologist called in a cortisone pack, and my dear friend and neighbor A. is going to pick it up from the pharmacy for me. Apparently I take varying doses...

Try this: blackle.com A google-powered search engine with a black screen & white writing. Millions of kilowatt hours are saved if you can use this, as brighter, more colorful screens...

This is always an exciting, helpful day out there in the world of headache disorders. Take a look at the page, which is chock full of different folks' perspectives regarding...

I have used very similar analogies in the past, but this author, Christine Miserandino, uses spoons as a metaphor for the limited amount of energy she has each day as...

That's me, all right. With renewed hope and energy, I applied for an insurance plan yet again a few weeks back. Last week an agent from the insurance company called...

It's probably the changing of the seasons. At least that's what I'll blame for my increased jaw pain (I didn't think the constant ache could get any worse!) and general...

Someone on MyMigraineConnection mentioned getting free and/or affordable medications through programs found on this site, Partnership for Prescription Assistance. I just finished filling out my applications and am hopeful! I...

This is a pretty interesting update! It's certainly not surprising. I feel that those of us in the blog community (readers and writers both) are helping each other similarly!...

I'm pretty thrilled about The New York Times migraine blog, as you probably will have noticed by now. From the first day I spotted it, I noticed that Jeff Tweedy...

I awoke this morning around 8 AM knowing I'd have a migraine soon. I made myself eat some breakfast, and I had a cup of tea (two teabags: one traditional...

I recently found out that a young woman I tutor is a migraineur--her headaches keep her out of school for days at a time, and when she finally got some...

Turns out I was using an old version of blogger, or else the template I used to have didn't support extra page elements (like lists of links). So now I'm...

Today Migraine Blog informed readers of a Washington, D.C.-area newscast about one of the topics that really pushes my migraine button. Here's the link to the article and video. I...

On days like today, I'm not sure what to do. My Zonegran seems to have worked in many ways, one of which is this: It slows the overall migraine attack...