Stories

I am a 53 year old female that has only known headache pain her entire life. My parents were young when they had me and never took me to the...

For me, the most frustrating thing is not being believed when the topic of my migraine disease comes up. I married into a family that summarily dismissed anything that was...

I recall from as young as 5, crying from siring pain in my temple with blurred vision, vomiting. My momma would always comfort me during those times. Then once at...

“That a migraine doesn’t kill you it is both a blessing and a curse”Virginia Woolf. TMJ and tinnitus seemed to progressively get worse at the same time 2 years ago...

I’m an RN in a local hospital. Stress is one of my triggers and I was getting migraines from the stress at work. This lead to a lot of sick...

Another day, another morning missed with my son. All because I had to actually feel emotions. Any strong emotion can take the next day away from me. Excitement, joy, sadness...

I have tried and heard so many suggestions to stop getting migraines yet I can say I am in deep gratitude. What have I done to find a cure? What...

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...