Stories

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...

I'm hoping that any sufferer of classic migraines may read this and benefit from my experience. I am not a doctor or any specialist, just a guy that suffererd with...

I have had a migraine / headache for that many days in a row. Often I ask myself how is that even possible? And yet, here I am, unable to...

Hi my name is Sandy, I woke up @ 3am July 11th 2016 with a pressure pain in the right side of my skull that to this day has not...

I started getting migraines when I was 11, following a horrific auto accident that left me hospitalized for many months, my mother as a double amputee, my older sister badly...

134 days of a migraine - meds, tooth pulls and new glasses, MRI and CAT scan, massage, chiropractic and acupressure and puncture as well as sinus surgery did not work...

Twenty-four hours ago, I had a near-miss that had my family on edge for most of the day and it’s given me a fresh perspective of what pain really is...

Hi everyone. My name is kevin and till the age of 22 I was healthy & filled with lots of energy. Migraine was back then something not known to me...

I've had migraines for many years. I'm currently in a rough patch with them in the hot weather. I wish I didn't always feel so scared returning to work after...