Stories

I found a wonderful neurologist who specializes in headaches/migraines. She is running many blood tests to look at vitamins levels, hormones, and more importantly auto immune disorders (a possible factor...

I started getting migraines when I was in 5th grade. Essentially, my migraines went from zero to 60 overnight and I went from being perfectly normal to having a migraine...

I've been a classic migraineur, suffering from relentless attacks of zigzag migraine, medieval torture device migraine, not so merry go-round migraine, and all and sundry seriotypes in extremis since I...

My dad had migraines when he was a young boy but grew out of them when he was a teenager. He was born in 1928 so it would have been...

When I was a 6 I started going to day camp in the summer. Everyday at the end of the day I went home feeling overheated, sick and absolutely exhausted...

Like others, I have had migraines since I can remember. I am know 53 years old. I can remember as a little girl going to the hospital for a "research"...

I've had migraines since after giving birth for the last 34 years. Aspirin, advil or any of the other over the counter headache medicines don't even make a dent in...

Lately, my doctor has put me on so many different medications, and the current one i'm on (i m sure) isn't preventing my migraines. I am at work, and while...

I was very lucky to have had only two painful migraines in my life before my fifties. Both were bad enough to send me directly to the hospital. In my...

I am so sorry for everything you are going through but you are not alone. My migraines started in my 20's, no big deal 2-3 a year. As I got...

Through conversations with people I have realized one thing - people who don't have migraines are often extraordinarily curious about what it is like to have a migraine. Even those...

I am a 35 year old female with Migraines, PCOS & Adenomyosis (endo of the uterine muscle tissue). I live in the Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago. I found out about...

Hello all, I am 32, I excersice frequently and live a very healthy lifestyle. It was back when I was 13, after a day of horseback riding that I experienced...

My home life was less than normal to begin with, but how do I tell my already stressed mother I can't see? Around my first menstruation I was away with...

I am a 40 year old female, having migraines for the past 14 years. My migraines began a couple of years after I started working. I have been working in...

As my youngest daughter likes to tell me, I may be little but I can be fierce! Although I promise my fierceness had nothing to do with being taken away...

My Name is Kathy. I am a 54 year old female and have been living with chronic intractable migraine headaches for at least 42 of my years. If you ask...

Hello my Migraines friends, Sorry to meet this way but maybe we can help each other. I have alot of the signals that I know are signals, but it's like...

I remember hearing stories from my family members talking about how they didn't know how to deal with my bouts of screaming pain. As a baby, I've been told I...

I have migraine with aura. My doctor told me that migraine pain occurs between the scalp and the skull. At the first hint of attack, which is a funny feeling...