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Hi, I have been dealing with headaches since I was 2 or 3 yrs old. They continued to gradually increase as time went on. They're getting worse so I go...

I'm a 66yr old male. I've had severe migraines from 16 to 40 years old with no relief from meds other than strong pain pills that would knock me out...

Today and for the past two years, I did my Aimovig injection. It doesn’t hurt me, it doesn't give me scarring side effects. However, my migraine went from 17-19 per...

I am a 64-year-old male who started having migraines with visual aura at 13. At 40 years old they went from the visual followed by the migraine pain, to a...

I've been a migraine sufferer for almost two decades now, and in some ways, I'm doing better than I ever have with this disease. I get Botox every three months...

“I know someone who gets migraines, too.” To many migraineurs, this sentence is all too familiar. I have spent the majority of my migraine diagnosis underplaying the toll of my...

I slept poorly my entire life. This affected my mental and physical health. After developing migraine, sleep became more crucial. Only a trip to the hospital or sleep ended a...

Hi! I am struggling with accepting my limitations when I have a migraine. I feel as though I'm struggling on all fronts. I have been getting daily migraines and try...

My "well-meaning" younger brother put me in a nursing facility 2 years ago and has thrown away the key. He seems to think that due to my debilitating migraines I...

For years I was having what I thought was the aura that comes before a migraine, even though the painful migraine never arrived. Lately, I had also been having additional...

I recently lost my job. My former employer would never say it, but it was in large part due to my chronic migraine. In all fairness, I was pretty miserable...

Emgality!!! That is the miracle. I have had chronic migraines my entire life. The first one I remember was when I was 7 and on a girl scout camping trip...

When I have a really bad migraine I suffer from what I call my brain fog. I can't think of words I want to say. My train of thought goes...

Migraines have been a part of me since I was in middle school. At first, we didn't really know what was causing them, as there were a lot of things...

I’ve lived with migraines ever since I can remember. I’ve also had stomach issues since I could remember. Then, when my son started having migraines, I bought a book on...

About 6 years I had a strange experience where I didn't know what I was saying or what others were talking about, seemed gibberish. Was first diagnosed with TIA but...

Well, it has been 5 years since I was first diagnosed with migraine. It has been just over a year that I have been working with a neurologist for migraine...

Migraine is an addict and unfortunately began its “use” of me in my teens. I am in my mid-fifties now and have had chronic migraine since early 2000. In my...

I am not a doctor and I am not in the medical field but I really want to get my story out there because I think it will help a...

I have begged to have them set me up with something like I just read. In ER, I have had saline in one arm and potassium in the other. Saline...