Stories

Katie asked me to post something here that I shared as a comment to her "Images of an Invisible Illness" post. In 2010, I was finally correctly diagnosed with chronic...

hey I’ve got a little bit of an odd scenario with the way my eyes work one is susceptible to blue light while the other is susceptible to red these...

I have posted here before but I'll start at the beginning for some context. I was always a kid with headaches. Sure when I was young they weren't that bad...

I'm 46 years old, the migraines started on my 20's and getting worse every day. About a year ago, I started the Botox treatment with no good results. To make...

Four years ago I started getting migraines after a TBI that was followed two months later by a cervical torsion that probably did nothing good to help healing that first...

I got my first migraine when I was 13. It came when I started my menses. Back then we really didn't know as much about migraines. It was just a...

My Name is Jess, I have had migraines since I was in high school but we weren't able to find the true trigger until I was in College because it...

My headache started, yes, I said headache only one. I have had the same one for nineteen years. It has not stopped, it has lessened at times but it is...

It's not everyday this happens and there are countless people that can go through their life and not experience it. Finding yourself in a suspected medical emergency where EMS has...

I was diagnosed in 1999 with Migraines. I recall all my symptoms before being diagnosed. Light, sunlight, lights were so painful to me. I had numerous hospital visits. When I...

On average I get at least one migraine a week. This is an improvement from the three or four a week I used to live with. I make sure I...

I've been on disability for migraines since 2010 and most of you know how resistant the government is for allowing a disability award to anyone for anything. This past year...

Hi I am 38 and a mother of 4 children. I have had chronic headaches for years and suffered migraines occasionally. The beginning of this year I started having balance...

At the age of 18, as a freshman in college, I was diagnosed with migraines. I wish I knew at the time how this would change my life forever. I'm now...

I have dealt with migraine for the past 27 years. Sometimes a poem bubbles up. Here is Headache Poem Number 2 The clash of a hammer Pounding an anvil Invades...

I have suffered from almost daily migraines since 1974 and have been twice hospitalized for migraines, the first time in 1985 with Dr. Seymour Diamond in Chicago and the second...

I just got another notice saying no I am not disabled due to the fact that Iowa does not recognize Mental health as a real thing. I am at the...

Chronic migraines and school are two of the things that are a struggle to combine. I am about a month into college and I am already having a hard time...

Four years on ( menopause migrains hit me) I'm taking vitamin B12 , magnesium and Carlsons quality fish oils. My pains are still there but the last two months they...

I contracted first meningitis age 35 developed a rash on back of neck,diagnosis, encephalitis. I am now 58 and still suffering from debilitating headaches, New doctor is interfered with my...