Stories

I'm 25 and have been a migraine sufferer since I was a teen. However, in the past few years they went from once every couple of months to several times...

I have lived with migraines since I was 10 years old. At first my parents took me to an Ear Nose and Throat Dr who diagnosed me with allergies. I...

My path of migraines started when I was around 25. I thought they were just hormonal, but then when I grew older and was having them 3 a month they...

My story is complicated as so many here have been. I had my first migraine my second year in college. I assumed it was another symptom of my newly diagnosed...

I am a 42 year old woman who was diagnosed Migraine with aura at age 13. I first experiece an extreme sensetivity to light, sound and smells. Very soon after...

Hi, I am a 47-year-old female who has had migraines for 25 years. I used to get only 3 or 4 attacks a year with about 1 or 2 sending...

Hello I am 41 years old from ohio. I have headaches everyday i think diet cola,cheese, some meats, are the things giving me these headaches but im not sure because...

July 26, 2011 I fell dropping on our insurance payment. I hurt my shoulder & knee & had a headache. I went to the dr., he said to just wait...

My jouney began last spring when I was having constant migraines. I was put on Topamax and it worked wonders and I pretty much found out what my trigger was...

Hey everyone For as long as I can remember I have a hypocondriac. I will admit that. I stayed home from school with "headaches" and "stomachaches" and all that. Although...

When I first started experiencing migraines at the age of 25, I thought I was suffering from a 24-hour stomache bug. My head hurt, but by far my worst symptoms...

My headaches started at the ripe old age of 6. I remember my first one just like it was yesterday. I was on Christmas break from school and my mom...

I don’t remember my exact age when I had my first migraine—but I know I wasn’t yet a teenager. My parents literally took me to a migraine specialist’s house for...

Two weeks after I had my wisdom teeth out, I started having headaches. I was on a month long break from school, so I was getting plenty of sleep and...

Since the age of 12 I have struggled with migraines. Through my adolescence and early adulthood they have morphed and changed. From the beginning I struggled with that woozy feeling...

While I have had only a handful of migraine headaches, my wife has had literally thousands. My wife was two years old when she began suffering from massive migraines. Doctors...

My migraines started when I was young, in childhood, but were quite rare then. They really only happened when I went from a low to a high altitude in a...

I previously shared my migraine story on this forum under the title of "Feeling Validated," about my headaches. First, let me apologize for the typos and left out letters in...

I am a 31 year old female living in southwestern Ontario, Canada. From the age of around 24 I started experiencing these 'episodes'. The first one started after finishing exams...

It all started two weeks after going on the combined contraceptive pill although I didn't realise the connection until a few months later! I was sitting in my parents house...