Stories

Over the years, I have kept migraine journals and calendars. I've documented everything from possible causes, foods, anything ingested, activity and then what I did to alleviate it. I have...

I am 50 years old and have been in private practice for 26 years. The day I turned 40, I experienced my first migraine. At 41, I was having 14...

I am 41 years old and have had migraines since the age of 5. Problem was that back then not many people believed someone so young could have migraines. Also...

My headache began 20 months ago and hasn't went away. Ever since then, I have woke up everyday with a headache and a few days a week it has turned...

My mother has epilepsy. She was diagnosed as a teenager and it has been controlled with drugs every since (over 50 years now). She was adopted as a child and...

I have had migraines for 17 years. I am a fifth generation of migraines in my family and I've past it on to my 23 yr old son. Finding the...

My doctor diagnosed me with migraines, although frankly I'm still unsure about the diagnosis because headaches are the last of my problems. My "migraines" always start with a feeling that...

To make a long story short. I have had migraines for more than 30 years. Over the years I have discovered and eliminated all the triggers (alcohol, tobacco, heavy dust)...

I'm 45 and got my 1st migraine at 12. Throughout my youth I got more headaches (Excedrin worked!) than actual migraines. In my 20's I ran long distance, so much...

I started having migraines during 4th grade, in 1963. I am now 57. When I was little, doctors thought I did not have migraines because I never had an aura...

I am a 30 year-old female Christian from UK who gets migraines a LOT. From the age of about 8, I started to get headaches in extreme heat and at...

Hello, I am 20 years old and I have been suffering from migraines for 4 years now, but I feel like there is something more than just migraines. The pain...

My story starts about five years six years ago. I was getting married and my husband's mother was a zilla. We got married and about six months later I began...

My mom used to have to go off into a darkened room every week and we could not make a noise and disturb her, she would be violently sick also...

I will start with my first migraine at age 16, I felt like someone was hitting my head over and over again. My grandma packed my entire head in ice...

Two weeks ago i had a terrible migraine. I was throwing up bile. After that was gone i was throwing up foamy blood. My wife took me to the ER...

Well I have suffered from migraines nearly my entire life. The doctors have no idea what causes my migraines and since they dont know what causes them, they will not...

Okay, so I don't know if anyone will read this, but I suppose it's good to vent for my own well-being. I'm a 24 year old female. I've had chronic...

It came out of nowhere. I literally had no headaches one day, and it started the next. While I type this, it's Oct 2nd, and I remember the date it...

Just found this site. I have been a migraine sufferer since I was 19 (so 19yrs and counting). At first they were daily but then settled into a cyclical pattern...