Food, glorious food!...Sometimes when I wake up with a migraine I think to myself, “What have I done to deserve this?!” This rings especially true when I’ve been feeling bad earlier in...reactions15comments
Water, water, everywhere...Here’s another thing I learned about the human body over the last couple of years: though people do of course require at least 8 glasses of water a day, the...reactions29comments
The day my life changed......On the night of February 21,2010 I was driving home from my EMT class when I was suddenly overcome by the worst pain I'd ever felt. My hands went numb...reactions10comments
36 years of pain...My migraines began when I was 8 years old, that means less than a 20th of my life was migraine free. Migraines in the late 70's early 80 for kids...reactions1comment
Stroke Risk in Migraine Patients is Increased—Poor Outcomes are Not...Migraine, and in particular, migraine with aura has been shown to be a risk factor for ischemic stroke , a type of stroke caused when a blood vessel that supplies...reactions1comment
What can we learn from migraine alert dogs?...Do other people often warn you that you're going to get a migraine? Have you even noticed that your dog starts hovering nearby, looking to offer comfort you when you...reactions50comments
Basilar Type Migraines...Has anyone else been diagnosed with these types of headaches? I swear I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes. People think I'm drunk, on drugs or just plain nutty...reactions6repliesDiagnosis
Non Migraine meds, given for Migraines...I know there several prophylactic medications specifically for migraines, but there seem to be more that are for something else that happen to be used to treat migraines too. Mostly...reactions6replies
The day my life changed!...As a kid, I was told that I was starting to have simple migraines. As an adult they were never a problem. Just Headaches! In 1992 I was driving my...reactions4comments
The madness of migraine...One afternoon while a 16-year-old was on summer vacation with her family, she found herself lying on a bed crying with a headache more severe than she could ever have...reactions1comment
Something I have noticed ......Something I have noticed about using the life-saving Migraine medications and their effect on migraines. Back in the day when suffering was the common way to deal with undiagnosed migraines...reactions1comment
Migraine chronicles or can someone send me the scalpel?...I have migraines and have had for so many years that there is so much that goes with them both internally and externally: keeping a job, trying to explain to...reactionscomments
Migraines have too much control over my life!...Although the past month, they haven't been too bad, I have suffered from migraines sense I was a child. When I was 11yrs old,and I had hair to my butt...reactions1comment
Migraines: I really do hate them...My birthday in June 2006 was pretty much like the previous years' except for one thing; I had been having these horrific headaches and getting bloody noses. At the time...reactions2comments
No Ordinary Headache...What is it that I did to deserve these horrible migraines? I don't know that there is an answer to that. They say they are hereditary. Here's what I know...reactions1comment
My neurological migraine story...I am 28 years old, and have suffered from chronic neurological migraines since 2002. Altitude changes, lack of sleep, and stress are my most noticeable triggers, but overall my migraines...reactions3comments
Menstrual Migraine Story...I've had migraines since age 12. I remember writhing in pain, and throwing ice packs at my bedroom door, because even the ice couldn't dull the pain. I've come a...reactions1comment
We need a maid....I’ve written before about what it’s like to have a partner who also suffers from chronic pain, but ever since I wrote that personal essay, things have taken a dramatic...reactionscomments
My Story...Ever since I was in third grade, I have experienced migraine headaches. My case appears to be very unusual, because I have pain in my head constantly. Few pain-killers have...reactions1comment
