Stories

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...

I started this roller coaster of life when I was in my 20's. At the time I worked at a healthcare group and my regular doctor was on staff. I...

As a kid it was my parents who held me as I screamed and cried in pain for hours on end until I would vomit and the migraine would leave...

I don't know where to begin. I have had migraines for as long as I can remember. As a 5 year old, I can recall running to my mom with...

Disclaimer I'm not a doctor or a clinician. Just a migraine sufferer. I wanted to share my experience with migraine surgery. It should be up to each one of us...

I have had migraines since I was around 12. They started around the same time as my menses. A couple of years ago I learned one helpful thing. I'm allergic...

I get very emotional and cry for those who suffer with migraines throughout their lives, ones who suffer every single day, and I cry with joy for those who have...

Concussions are my story, head trauma. Stitches in my head several times. From 5 stitches to 34. I have had about several migraines which has taken a heavy toll on...

I have been luckier than most of this site. I didn't get migraines until I was 35. I had had one when I was around 12 but that was it...

Sometimes life isn't fair. Not that I am bothered by that. I find some sort of sweetness in it actually. The sweetness took me years to find at a toll...

I so appreciate all of you who have taken the time to share your stories. I did not have my first migraine until I was 35 years old. I was...

I often feel like I have been through all the medicines known to man-kind when it comes to managing my migraines. I have tried preventatives (before the migraine starts), abortives...

Dr. Traci Purath built a headache clinic from the ground up to help patients who were dealing with debilitating headaches in Racine and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now, after over a decade...

My story is a scary one. In the summer / fall of 2000 I started running a fever with no other symptoms. Lots of tests were run, which showed that...