Stories

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...

I was first diagnosed with migraines at the age of 19... I was met with the typical notion that it was all in my head. My first neurologist was a...

I've had migraines since I was 9 years old, but 3 years ago it turned into the dreaded perma-headache of daily chronic migraine. I had just re-enrolled in school to...

I remember getting occasional headaches as far back as kindergarten, back when a simple, crushed aspirin did the trick. Gradually, the headaches became worse - both in frequency and intensity...

As a little girl I was always sensitive to noise and hovered in the quiet places. I guess that was the start of everything. My parents told me I hated...

I am very passionate about. Passionate because it is a major part of my life-Chronic Migraine Disease, Depression, Panic Attacks PTSD, OCD, IBS, SAD, Fibromyalgia and CFS. I write about...

My dad was in the Air Force and I grew up in different states. The first time I was hospitalized for dehydration was in Texas and I was nine years...

My name is Kelli. I know now that I suffered migraines as a child. When I was young I didn't know what to call them. I would just say "My...