Stories

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...

My husband is 59 and we’ve been married for 23 years. He has suffered from migraine his entire life but in recent years, he has become so frustrated and angry...

I am a 68 told women and have had migraines since I was 16. Back then there was nothing to take but excedrin. My mom had them and called them...

It took having seizures to let my circle of friends understand better what a migraine can do. Mine get so bad they trigger blackouts (seizures). I didn’t understand this for...