Stories

It all began on a sweltering spring day at Camp Victory in Iraq 16 years ago. Three days prior to what I now know as my first migraine, a haboob...

When I was 15 (about 52 years ago), I was in a serious auto accident with my mom and was in a coma for about 2 weeks, and they sent...

I'm the wacky old lady in our neighborhood. I can't walk my dog without two pairs of sunglasses (sometimes three) and a wide brim hat. I use the cheap throw-away...

If only they understood the battle I face every day upon waking up in the late morning. Late morning because I can never fall asleep until real late and if...

Since I was a child around 6 years old coming home from kindergarten saying “Mommy my head hurts”. I was told that I would have dinner and then eventually vomit...

Since May 1995, I have had an intractable migraine EVERYDAY. That makes 9530 days consecutively. I have 3 main triggers: getting overheated, stress, and a drop in barometric pressure (rain...

Hi, I’m Tiffany. I was diagnosed with chronic migraines in my early thirties. My migraines aren’t normal. I get migraines due to the fluid traveling around in my brain. When...

Hello, It's been almost 7 years since I have been living with migraine. I am 25 yrs old and a medical student. It has been very difficult to live with...

I was 16 when I started having Migraine pain and symptoms 24/7. Up until the year I turned 16, I only had 4 years of experience with type 1 diabetes...

The first I can remember getting "headaches" was in the 6th or 7th grade. I would get them so bad I'd just have to lay my head down and most...

I am not good at communicating. Please bear with me. My struggle with this disease began in 2006. I was on an adventure with a friend. We were riding our...

I have suffered from bad headaches since I was in elementary school. My parents and doctors attributed my headaches to not wearing my glasses as a kid. After I had...

I remember having “headaches” in kindergarten...going to the nurse in every grade and getting the standard aspirin and laying down. Now that I’m about to turn 50 and have tried...

The longest I've gone without a migraine is one year. I've seen many doctors and tried many preventative and abortive medicines without success. Somewhere I've ended up in the hospital...

I am a mother of a 34 yr old son diagnosed with migraine. He also has allergies. He has been to many doctors but really nothing helps. He uses a...

I have lived with chronic pain most of my life so at first the tunnel vision and pain were just part of what I struggled through. Then my symptoms changed...

I started having migraines at the age of 5. Sensitive to light, sound with vomiting. I started hemiplegic migraines with aura at 13. I always will have headaches and migraine...

In childhood when I first got migraines I didn't understand them and thought I was dying. As I've grown into adulthood, migraine has become a major theme in my life...

Well, I have just found a new website, new to me. I went searching for adverse effects to the vaccines because I have been feeling lousy this past week from...

I have suffered from migraines for several decades now. Since my wife is also a victim of them, it made the diagnosis somewhat easier. We happen to mirror a number...