Stories

Dear Friends, Thank you! After 28 years of migraines, I am thrilled to see support popping up all over the web. Your site is comprehensive, sensitive, and real, and I...

I have had migraines for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I remember spending many afternoons laying still across the couch, feeling sick with searing...

My name is Elaine. My story is a little odd. I had a pretty typical start. Around age 9 I had headaches. I remember when I had them I didn't...

My name is Karen, and I've struggled with migraines since I was around the age of 9 - 10, but was never formally diagnosed until I was 18 a freshman...

My name is Erin and I wasn't diagnosed with migraines until I was in my twenties. I have had "headaches" from the time I was 14-15 but was always told...

Hello, I am Kim. I have had migraines for over 20 years. I was officially diagnosed 21 years ago, but I know it has actually been longer than that. The...

As I lay here typing I have a migraine. I went to church on this beautiful Sunday, had to come straight home afterward because I was sick to my stomach...

I have suffered from migraines for almost 20 years and have tried every drug available but now I have the worst migraine ever. January 18, 2010 I got the worst...

Life had been hectic but very satisfying after business school — a coveted job, promotions and a new found status. Like a million other independent children of the economic boom...

I was involved in a neuro stimulator study a few years ago and it was a wonderful thing. This was to help migraines in the back of the head. Yes...

Nobody likes a headache and migraines are no exception. The worst offenders relegate you to your quiet bedroom with the curtains closed, an ice pack on your aching head, and...

On the night of February 21,2010 I was driving home from my EMT class when I was suddenly overcome by the worst pain I'd ever felt. My hands went numb...

My migraines began when I was 8 years old, that means less than a 20th of my life was migraine free. Migraines in the late 70's early 80 for kids...

As a kid, I was told that I was starting to have simple migraines. As an adult they were never a problem. Just Headaches! In 1992 I was driving my...

One afternoon while a 16-year-old was on summer vacation with her family, she found herself lying on a bed crying with a headache more severe than she could ever have...

Something I have noticed about using the life-saving Migraine medications and their effect on migraines. Back in the day when suffering was the common way to deal with undiagnosed migraines...

I have migraines and have had for so many years that there is so much that goes with them both internally and externally: keeping a job, trying to explain to...

Although the past month, they haven't been too bad, I have suffered from migraines sense I was a child. When I was 11yrs old,and I had hair to my butt...

My birthday in June 2006 was pretty much like the previous years' except for one thing; I had been having these horrific headaches and getting bloody noses. At the time...

What is it that I did to deserve these horrible migraines? I don't know that there is an answer to that. They say they are hereditary. Here's what I know...