Stories

That Neuro Thing I have — it Won’t leave me alone for a moment. It’s always in the nesting stage, Always a fetus, needing nourishment From its host, The body...

The fluid in my inner ear Gets jumbled up sometimes. I feel vibrations in the lower half And the upper half. I rather not get up. If I am up...

I’m feeling so old. I just turned 70 in May and I keep thinking about my mom at this age. She passed away a year ago at 101.5 years old...

I try once and I fail. I try twice, then set sail To find hope elsewhere. I try thrice and I am full of despair. I should have given up...

I am the sole soul who needs to take care of the triggers around me. I can’t ask anyone else to remember my triggers and behave accordingly. I shouldn’t expect...

When my life-long migraines became chronic in 2005, I was told that regular exercise would help. So I developed a walking habit that, I guess, helped me. I couldn't tell...

For more than two decades I was in the dark as to what was causing so much pain in the upper abdomen near the lower rib cage. The modern medicine...

It’s the eighth standard. I am 13. I need to study for a class test for 25 marks the very next day. It is a five-page chapter in the biology...

The abdominal migraines have a peculiar trigger which I realized about two weeks ago. After yesterday’s obvious tightening of the upper abdomen, I understand it better and now I find...

I have been a migraine sufferer since the age of 14. I have tried everything under the sun and beyond, to no avail. When triptans came on the market in...

I am writing this essay after finishing the essay "I Say Yes To Changes and Also No". I am riding the surge of the urge to write. Often, I don’t...

Any change in the external environment affects my condition to some extent. If the change is drastic, I see a flare-up in multiple symptoms. This sounds funny to me since...

For me, it started in my 50s. At first it was aura only, it was like a flashlight blinding my left eye. After a couple of those I got the...

Yesterday, I experienced brain fog throughout the day, not just a regular brain fog but an intensified one. It lasted the whole day. And now, the next morning, I still...

I started having migraines at the age of 13. At that time they were manageable. I got married when I was 21 and started taking birth control pills. They seemed...

I have been absent lately, due to my final flights to see my mother. I have also had to part ways with my brother, he has his own path to...

Sometimes, I play fast fast fast. Sometimes, I play slowly. Sometimes, sometimes, I never know. Sometimes, I see my four fingers Gliding down the fretboard. Sometimes, sometimes, I never know...

In response to a member, I feel devastated for you as I can feel your pain. I have suffered migraine since the age of 10... I am now 54. I...

After observing for a few years how my neuro thingy (aka migraine) affects my writing, I see that I hardly have anything called writer’s block. What may seem like writer’s...

I’m on the couch. There’s a full basket of unfolded laundry on the chair. Next to me, here, are blankets I used last night to sleep in front of the...