Stories

I'm 21, and coming up on the celebration of my headache's fifth birthday. I didn't used to describe it as a migraine, they have other associated symptoms generally, but as...

Dear Migraine, It has been 2 1/2 months since you reared your ugly head, making your first unwelcome visit, as I lay in my bed. I didn't see you coming...

I am a 37 yr old Familial Hemiplegic Migraine sufferer from the UK. My whole family suffers from the disease which has been passed on through 5 generations that we...

I have had migraines since the age of 12 and am now 51, over the years I tried all medications like anti-epileptic meds, abortives, anti-inflamatories, migraine meds, preventatives to no...

I've suffered from migraines since I can remember. You name the type, they said I had it. It was finally "chronic". In the ER constantly. I'm allergic to almost every...

I'm 48 & have had migraines since I was in my teens. When I was pregnant I didn't get morning sickness, I got migraines that lasted for days. My migraines...

Does anyone else have a job that thinks it's accommodating or tries to be but just can't be? My office recently moved from a place with old lighting and high...

I have chronic daily debilitating migraines. I have given up on the words NOT having a migraine to the words of How do you RATE your pain at this time...

I am active at home mom with 2 boys both in sports i have been living with migraines for five years I went to the doctors and felt like a...

i have had a terrible history of migraines. in 2007 i was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder. i was already on topiromate for migraines, and it was helping, but not...

I have about 1 week a month where I do not wake up with throbbing head pain. One day my husband told me that this guy he works with was...

I first started having migraines in my late twenties. Back then everyone thought they were sinus headaches but my sinuses were clear and I rarely get colds. When I reached...

Dr Khorsandi @ The Migraine Relief Center in Houston, Tx has saved my life. I've been suffering from migraines x20years, including a cardiac arrest from a basilar artery migraine. I...

I am a 33 year old female and very healthy! I have two little girls, work full time and married. About a month ago I am driving down the road...

Head pain is often not a part of my migraines, at least not a prominent part. As far back as I can remember, I had periods of weirdness where I...

I'm a 44 yr old woman and if you can believe it, I've had migraines as far back as when I was 5 years old. My paternal grandmother suffered severe...

One year ago, I had an episode. No aura, no symptoms other than my pupils were unevenly dilated. My daughter said, 'what's wrong with your eyes? '. I thought I...

So, I never really thought that I would be asking myself this question when I started having migraines in high school. I never thought I would have to ask myself...

It was not until one day i lied down my head on my desk in the classroom as I did very often nowadays that I was told I suffer from...

I am on my second round of trying Topamax. I now remember why I quit taking it the first time. So tired and the eye pressure I get with it...