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...I started getting migraines when I was a teenager. I was at a sweet sixteen disco party, at a nightclub, when I had my first really bad one, complete with...

...I started having migraines as a child. Luckily they were few and far between until I hit my 20’s. They then steadily began to increase. Once every few months, then...

...One really frustrating thing about migraines is that I often experience attacks or migraine cycles when I’m far away from home and have limited resources with me to deal with...

...I started getting migraines when I was 8 years old, I'm now 51. They started occurring more frequently when I was in my 20's. In my very young years, I...

...Suffering chronic migraine is unbearable. Too many times I planned my death. It brought comfort to know I could say goodbye and not have to drug myself to sleep for...

...I have had migraine symptoms as far back as I can remember. They started with the weather, pressure from storm fronts moving in, and the direct sunlight. In high school...

...I have had migraines my entire life. When I see was young they thought that the migraines were caused by my long thick hair. So each summer I got my...

...I don’t see the world the way you do. I live in an ever-changing prism of visual anomalies. They shift with the light, the time of day, my stress level...

...I started getting headaches in middle school. My family always told me I would be fine just take some ibuprofen. Years went by and by the time I was in...

...I was first diagnosed with chronic migraine in my teens and it has been a downward slope with my migraine disease since then. I recently began to put together what...

...My migraines were “formally” diagnosed in my mid-thirties, but I’ve had “headaches” since my early 20’s that we’re debilitating and likely migraines-undiagnosed. My migraines were controlled with preventative medication for...

...Sometimes I find it hard to separate who I am from my migraines. Of course, I am more than just my migraines - but, at this point in my life...

...I work on a computer all day under fluorescent lighting. I had migraines so frequently and learned to work with them that I call them livable migraines even though I...

...I was diagnosed at the age of 12 with migraines. This long journey began while I was in middle school and continuously was being picked up from the school nurse's...

...October 1973, my parents were called to the scene of a terrible car accident. It was mine. My upper body was thrown out of the car and I had head...

...I had a normal childhood. Normal, at least, by my own standards. I thought it was normal to get headaches, just like my mom always did. Who doesn't get headaches?...

...I always suffered with migraines whenever there were strong smells around. As a toddler I rarely cried and told my parents that crying made my head hurt. I had my...

...My migraines started when I hit puberty at about age 13. Living with migraine and trying to work can be really tricky. Most people think migraines are just headaches which...