Stories

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...

When I think of my migraines, I imagine a Stranger hiding in the shadows, watching me as I walk down a dark street. He stalks me, waiting to pounce on...

Have you ever been to the grocery store, bank, restaurant or doctor office and you can tell they are training some one new? Don't get me wrong, we all start...

I used to be normal. I used to be active.Then, my body turned on me, & now I often feel cheated, because the migraines keep me from doing almost everything...

Do you know what it is like to live in fear? I’m talking a fear that haunts you every hour of every day, a fear of something which can strike...