Stories

I'm 22 years old and I've been experiencing migraines between 5 and 12 times per month since I was about 17/18. Unfortunately, they run in my family, on both sides...

I started getting migraines when I was 38 or 39. My mother has had them since a young teen. I have to take a generic imitrex because my insurance won't...

I got my first migraine at the early age of 12. I can remember it so vividly because I thought I would die from the pain. I was at a...

I suffered since I was 19. I am 56. Three days a week crying, puking, my head in a basket. I went to several doctors. Many doctors made me feel...

Since the age of ten, I have suffered from headaches. My parents took me to the doctor a number of times and every time he would tell my parents that...

My story is like most of yours. Migraines started for me when I was 3. My family doctor came to our house and gave me a barbiturate shot. When we...

There are so many instances in my life that I could write about that illustrates the misunderstandings associated with migraines but there is one in particular that really demonstrates the...

Picture this. You’re sitting there, minding your own business. Physically, you feel fine. You’re doing whatever it is that you do — sitting at work, hanging with friends, at the...

I do not have painful headaches but so many of the other symptoms caused by migraine plague me daily. I'm new to being diagnosed with migraine. I'm 33 years old...

I had my first migraine in 4th grade. My mom recognized it pretty quickly because she suffered from them, as well. They weren't too bad until high school but still...

I started with chronic dizzyness about 4 months ago. I ocassionally have episodes of vertigo. I did not start having severe headaches until about a month ago. I have noticed...

My family & I went on a great cruise the end of May for 7 days. After the cruise, we spent two days in Florida with family. The day we...

I am a 62 F who has suffered with migraines for about 25 yrs now. Mine are caused by smog (I live in a highly polluted area of So Calif)...

I have had migraine with aura and hemiplegic migraine since age 3. Of. Back then there weren't distinctions and often migraine was headache sickness. There were no treatments either. The...

I began having diagnosed Migraines at the age of eighteen. The thing is though I remember having really bad headaches as a child. Many time it was said I was...

The ironic part of this is while I'm typing, Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" is playing. I never had a problem with anything health related until 2009, when I...

I've been battling migraines for as long as I can remember. However, the biggest battle for me has been trying to make myself accept that I've had to adjust my...

This is not my first post so I am not going to detail my whole history. Here is the short version highlighting only what is important to my question for...

I've had migraines since I was a little kid. I remember covering my head and not wanting to get up to go to school and stomach pain and head pain...

"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” author Lewis Carroll may have suffered from migraines with aura, and the surreal characters and imagery in his book may have been inspired by distorted visions...