Finding Relief from Light-Sensitivity...But every time I entered one of the classrooms, my head threatened a migraine. I often had to apologize to the teacher and leave the class....Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Photophobia: Dealing with Painful Light Sensitivity...If you are unsure about it being related solely to your migraine or not, it does not hurt to ask your doctors about it to...Reactions0reactionsComments6 comments
Migraine Food Triggers: An Introduction...It took work and I still have some fine-tuning to do, but I’ve made tremendous progress....Reactions0reactionsComments16 comments
The Complexities of the Migraine Doctor/Patient Relationship...However, if we want our doctors to listen to and value our wisdom and experience, we need to do the same for them....Reactions0reactionsComments8 comments
Seven Ways to Lessen Migraine's Impact on Your Family...Children take cues from their parents as to how to react to situations....Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
Respect and Power at the Doctor’s Office...Note how you feel and vocalize this to your doctor....Reactions0reactionsComments18 comments
A Yoga Convert: Mindfulness For Migraine...I knew I had to begin to look for ideas regarding ways to re-balance my outlook and energy because I was starting to sink deep....Reactions0reactionsComments3 comments
Worsening Hemiplegic Migraines Due to POTS Episodes...Blood pressure and heart rate have a lot to do with POTS....Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Bonnets and Migraine: Challenging The Stigma of Both...I hope that anyone who may have also been privy to these conversations with a similar experience to mine feels confident to challenge that stigma, too....Reactions0reactionsComments7 comments
Low-Cost Options for Migraine Patients...to afford to get care at all, due to the inability to work often and the sheer costs of migraine....Reactions0reactionsComments6 comments
Breaking Up With Red Wine...Much to my dismay when I started trying to have a glass of red wine again, it never failed to cause a migraine to creep up...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Migraine Relief During Pregnancy...Your body goes through a lot of change during pregnancy – including a lot of hormonal shifts to support your ever-growing baby....Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
How I Manage Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Chronic Migraine...I have learned that I am not able to live like that anymore. I had a doctor explain a 1-to-2 rule....Reactions0reactionsComments35 comments
How Long Is an Elimination Diet?...The proper way to follow it is to eliminate all possible triggers for three to six months....Reactions0reactionsComments14 comments
Which Food Chemicals Are Potential Migraine Triggers?..., and alcohol causes the body to release histamine....Reactions0reactionsComments6 comments
Why It’s So Hard to Identify Food Triggers...Not everyone has the same triggers. You may not have any trouble with the foods on the typical list, but react to something seemingly benign....Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
Turning Embarrassment Into Strength...I have admittedly been too tired, too stressed out, too sick, and too sad to write very often....Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Botox...And it's the first time in a long time I remembered what it was like to not be sick, not to struggle every second of every...Reactions0reactionsComments6 comments
Mackenzie's Fight for Cambia...Were medications eliminated due to their ineffectiveness or their failure to work? Both....Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
#Botox...My neurologist stated after trying everything else, why not Botox....Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments