Could you please give me an axe!...At the age of 12 I had my first migraine with symptoms of vomiting. Growing up I watched my father and my grandmother (both sides of the family) go through...reactions2comments
Computer Programmer with Chronic Migraines...I've had migraines for as long as I have memory. They have varied from one every other month to three or four per week. Being a computer programmer, I am...reactions5comments
Psychological techniques offer more than placebo for migraine sufferers...As a chronic pain doctor, I've spent a career working in a multidisciplinary practice, working side-by-side with nurses giving dietary and sleep instructions, physical therapists providing exercise strategies, and psychologists...reactions4comments
Paranoia...I'm a 26 year old Chef. My Migraines started around the age of 17 but were only a once or twice a year occurrence. But shortly after i turned 25...reactions7comments
Meno(non)pause Migraine Melo(NOT)drama!...No one knows exactly what your headache feels like - do you ever think that? I do. I often would like to feel someone else's Migraine, and visa-versa so that...reactions24comments
Warm winter weather and the migraine brain...The weather here has been unseasonably mild since late fall. Granted, things never get all that cold here in my part of Georgia, but we almost always have a handful...reactions22comments
hypochondriac?...Hello! I'm a 16 year old girl and have had migraines since 7th grade, so 5 years. For the past 4 years I thought they were just normal headaches, and...reactions10comments
Coping with Migraines during pregnancy...I need some support and advice. I have been suffering with migraines for years and they have greatly intensified in the last 5 years. Before I was on preventative meds...reactions2replies
My 4th doozie of a migraine...What a nightmare this has been? I've had 3 other migraines in my life, but nothing near the one I just was diagnosed with? I thought for sure that I...reactionscomments
Realizing you're anxious only when it's too late...In mid-January, I was invited to speak at a panel at the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute, a conference for independent booksellers. Because I ended up funding my business through...reactions6comments
My Migraines...I have been suffering migraines since I started my period. I still remember my first one. I thought it was so cool that I saw this spinning ball going around...reactionscomments
Pain Pain Go Away Come Again Some Other Day!...Migraine Monday's Migraine Morning I have come up with so many ways to try and lighten myself up about my migraines. I've tried everything over the years and honestly, I've...reactions8comments
My Adventures with Chronic Migraines...I think my first experience with migraine came as a result of playing certain video games for too long a stretch. While the migraine was horrible, it didn't happen often...reactions14comments
My Story...My name is Andrea. I'm 38, married, and a mother to 2 kids. I used to be a paramedic, until my migraines took that from me. The first headache I...reactions1comment
42 Years of Migraines...The first clear memory I have of a Migraine was when I was 6 years old. I was in first grade and we were lining up to go somewhere (probably...reactionscomments
Migraine Symptoms: Anger & Irritability...Anger and irritability are some of the lesser-recognized symptoms of migraine disease. These symptoms are most often experienced during the prodome phase. The prodome phase comes before the migraine attack...reactions5comments
Migraines returned after 16 years....(Based in the UK). There was nobody more surprised than me when I woke up the other morning suffering from a numb hand and numb mouth/tongue. Initially I thought the...reactions5comments
Update on Interventional Therapies For Migraine...Just back from the 6th world congress of the World Institute of Pain meeting in Miami. I was excited to attend a symposium dedicated to interventional approaches to headache, including...reactions2comments
No one can figure out what's WRONG with me......Hi guys! My name is Angie and I am 20 years old. I live in a small town called Graysville and I have been too many doctors for my Epilepsy...reactions6comments
Brain Fog 101...I’m reading a book — one of my very favorite things to do. I read the first sentence of a paragraph, and by the time I’m to the end of...reactions15comments
