Stories

My 12-year-old daughter developed a three-month intractable migraine after two years of increasing migraines. She lived in a bed in darkness missing school, her friends, and her life. Our whole...

I’m at the end of my rope. I have had chronic daily headaches/migraines for the past 17 years. I’m lucky enough that where I work is so slow with the...

I experenced my first migraine at about age 14, I have been getting them pretty regular for the past 10 years. I have just turned 40. I had the worst...

When I was a young girl, I had a mild traumatic brain injury along with damage to my cervical spine (C1-C7) from being thrown off a horse. Within a few...

So I have had really bad migraines for about 10 years now, ever since I was in a really bad car accident. I have tried so many different medications for...

First a bit of background: I have suffered from headaches for years and years, and am no stranger to them. Since I was 14, tension headaches have placed a familiar...

You take a break for a moment to clear your head and just in that instant it takes over. You feel it start, creeping, inching, coming forward in your brain...

My migraines started almost 25 years ago when I was 12 years old, right after I hit puberty. My symptoms were: pulsating pain on both sides of head, abdominal pain...

I have suffered with severe migrines since the age of 11- I am now 59. There is NOTHING and I mean NOTHING I have not tried. Countless medications at the...

My name is Kathy and I am a 44 year old mom, wife and grandmother. I work full time and take care of my grandson every weekend and he is...

My name is Lori and I am 23 years old. I have been suffering with headaches/migraines for the past year now. They started in may when I had a slight...

I will never forget my first migraine. I was 7 years old and in second grade. My mother picked me up from my grandmother’s house in the late afternoon. I...

What does a (my) migraine feel like? Take an ice pick and stick it in your eye... ...wait, I'm not finished... Develop nausea so severe that the slightest movement of...

Let me start with a fact that many do not believe, I am a MAN that gets Migraines. I know I am in the minority, I accept it, but I...

I am a 48 year old female who started getting Migraines in 1998. My first one came 2 days after having surgery to have my retina re-attached. I thought it...

I went to bed early with a terrible headache a week ago last Thursday after taking 2 adult aspirins. Woke up the next morning with the same headache and I...

I'll try to keep my story short and sweet. I am 42, I have been suffering from chronic migraines for almost two years now. I have done everything. I am...

My first migraine came at 9 years old. I was alone at the time and thought I was dying. They continued to increase in intensity and frequency throughout my 20s...

I have had migraines since I was 15, was "officially" diagnosed 17 years later after spending years of trips to the emergency room and losing weeks on the couch. Was...

I had my first full blown migraine when I was 16. I had no clue what it was, but I remember it was at night and my bedroom was next...