Stories

My first migraine was in Junior High during p.e. in a sea of navy and white striped uniforms under florescent lights. I lost my vision on one side and scared...

I've had migraines since I was 40, but not officially diagnosed by a neurologist until I was 45. I've been to 3 different neurologists. None have been able to help...

I am now 22 I have been struggling with migraines since I was about 16 after a trip to Australia and New Zealand. They are constant I don't have but...

I have had migraines for 20 years now. They started when I was around 5 or 6 and haven't left me alone since. I was always the sick child- staying...

March 23rd, 2013 seemed like a normal day except we got a snowstorm and I was headed back home a couple hundred miles from home. I was traveling around 15...

I was officially diagnosed with migraine about 18 years ago, but believe I have been suffering since I was a teen. Just thought I had bad sinus headaches. I was...

Hi folks,I wrote a week or so ago about how the Cefaly was causing me pain. I had the good fortune to have a very considerate gentleman from a chemist...

I never had a migraine until I was 33. But one day they just showed up. They were bad, 1 - 3 day migraines out of the blue, with all...

Being retired, I no longer get work related stress migraines. They were so bad, they caused an outbreak of my herpes virus a day or two after migraine left. Thank...

I started having migraines when in grade school, but only when we went to Detroit Tigers baseball games. Every summer, my dad would take all 4 of us boys to...

It started with menstrual migraines at 11. With my second pregnancy in 2002, I had almost constant migraines. It was so bad my OB induced labor a few weeks early...

My sister had migraines as a child so I knew what was happening with my first onset the end of freshman year in college. In my mid-50s now, the migraine...

I’m 19 years old and I’ve had headaches for as long as I can remember. My parents remember the first time my headache got unbearable, I got off of the...

I suffered with migraines since my 20s, undiagnosed till my early 50s. My neurologist tried prescribing every Rx for prevention....all made me feel ill and did nothing to keep my...

I was always the "sick" kid. My siblings were always saying I missed school just because I didn't like it. What they failed to understand is that I WAS sick...

This summer I celebrate 2 birthdays: my 35th birthday and 30 years with migraine. I celebrate because I know how hard I have fought to get to 30 years. This...

My 11th grade year book is the perfect metaphor for life with chronic migraines. It is filled with photos I am not in from events and clubs I could not...

I am a 26 year old female from Pennsylvania. I have struggled with migraines as far back as I can remember. (I remember leaving school in first grade d/t severe...

I was never a "headache" person until I hit 31. I was on my 2nd day of Seasonique birth control when I had my first migraine, though that may have...

I am a 49yr old female who has been plagued with debilitating migraines my entire life. I was very ill throughout my infancy and toddler years. At the age of...