Stories

The night it happened, I was given no warning of what was to come. My son, Iain, was 5 then, and had been having nightmares every night that brought him...

My story started about 9 years ago when I started getting this pain on one side of my head. At first I thought it was some kind of sinus infection...

I had my first migraine when I was about 7 years old and at junior school - very frightening because I experienced and aura. I had various bouts of migraine...

I was recently diagnosed with familial hemiplegic migraine. It has been a long road only to arrive at the quarry. In my mid-thirties I started having migraine with aura four...

Hello, my name is Bonnie and I have been suffering from these wonderful painful things since I was about twelve years old. As I have gotten older I have noticed...

I began suffering from migraines in 2003. I was involved in a work related motor vehicle accident in a commercial truck. I was broadsided by another commercial truck who had...

I often find it difficult to tell my chronic migraine story, because the truth of it is sometimes to hard to think on. I've had migraines for as long as...

I had occasional migraines as a teenager but then had none for many years. Chronic Migraine & Social Security DisabilityChronic Migraine & Child CustodyThe Family Medical Leave Act & MigraineMy...

I have very rare migraines. Only three times in my life have I had one of these headaches. The first time was 29 years ago, the second time was five...

I first started having headaches when I was about 12 years of age. I really thought nothing about them since the only time I had them was when I was...

I have suffered from migraines since I was about 11 or 12. I can remember as a teenager going to my PCP and begging them to do something to make...

In June 2008 I awoke with the worst headache of my life, at age 53. This triggered a visit to ER, multiple MRIs to rule out AVMs or whatever. Ultimately...

I started getting migraines when I was in third grade. My father, also a chronic migraine sufferer, spent his life treating his headaches with Excedrin migraine. A necessary vice in...

My daughter had a constant headache for months. She saw neurologists and was a patient at the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago. See also  Complementary Therapy Natural Remedies Popular posts...

I had occasional - maybe once / month - migraines when I was young. I'm not really sure when they started, but I do remember at 8 yrs old just...

My son got a virus in spring of 2011, when he began having severe head pain, intense and debilitating. The unusual part of his headaches was that he would have...

I had migraines off and on as a teen and young adult, but nothing like this. I had a sub-mandular gland removed in January of 2009. In Feb. 09 I...

When describing how migraines have affected my life the only way I can explain it to people who aren't migraine sufferers is to compare migraines to an alcoholic. In this...

I have been living with migraines for a long time. But when I was younger they thought they were sinus headaches. My mother also suffered from horrible migraines, but out...

I have had migraines since I was 7-8 or maybe earlier, but this was when I started on medications for migraines. I used to be sent home from Day camp...