Write About Your Migraine Experience: Prompt 1

By Lisa Robin Benson

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Migraine disease can be very isolating, and sometimes it's hard to describe your experience. Well, creative writing can help! In this series, I'll share some inspiration, and give a new writing prompt in each video.

Let's get writing!

This is the first of many prompts to inspire you to write about your experience with migraine, either as someone with the condition or as a caregiver. I'm starting these in the New Year since many people want to start new habits, and maybe some of you want to write more!

Come join us!

Writing by Sarah Murray-Cooper is taken from Artists Against Migraine Facebook page.

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azreynoldsMember
<inline-mention username="Melissa Arnold" user-id="3827796"/> , <inline-mention username="Holly Harding" user-id="3755969"/> , I finished the story about binasal occlusion glasses (BNO). I guess at this point we just wait(?). <inline-mention username="rachel20" user-id="3873727"/> , Binasal occlusion glasses are simply lens with a clear tape patches or nail polish painted on the middle of your lens by the nose piece. These patches interrupt the images your eyes send to your brain, slowing them down so your brain can better interpret what you are seeing. So simple, but so effective! They are using BNOs to help TBI, cerebal palsy and concussion patients with seeing and balance issues. There's not been any research published on using BNO for migraine, but my migraines went from 24-28 migraine days per month down to only 12, so it's definitely working for me.
rcmeachamMember
Writing about migraine is indeed a valuable practice. For several years I had a migraine blog. Putting the whole migraine experience front and center was a challenge that at first allowed me to come out of the closet and quit pretending, to lay it all out to anyone who cared to look at the messy display. It gave me a subject for my art and prompted me to sit down and draw on a regular basis. Ultimately it led to a level of acceptance of chronic migraine and with that - the choice to let the blog go and write and do art about other parts of my life. Migraines are still with me, but I’ve learned to surrender to the low-down times and shift my focus happily elsewhere throughout the highs.
Melissa ArnoldMember
Lisa, I LOVE this idea and the amazing talent from our community here. Writing is my favorite thing -- such a therapeutic way to express myself. I'll be following this series with interest. 😀 -Melissa, <a href='https://migraine.com' target='_blank'>migraine.com</a> team
Rebecca CMember
Really great imagery there, <inline-mention username="BobbyJohnson" user-id="3686511"/> Hoping the bass player takes a vacation to Cuba, and you get some time away from the constant pulsing. *trumpet toot* Best of wellness always - Rebecca (comm advc)
Melissa ArnoldMember
<inline-mention username="azreynolds" user-id="3677307"/> I'm excited! No rush at all. <3 -Melissa, <a href='https://migraine.com' target='_blank'>migraine.com</a> team