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Many people living with migraine are taking daily preventative and frequent rescue medications. The condition forces us to spend days in bed and that, in combination with the medications we...

When asked what your migraine treatment goals are, "to make them go away" or "to stop the pain" may seem like the obvious answers. Based on a friend's experience, I...

There are a lot of health benefits to enjoying a cup of tea – especially if you’re in the migraine community. My favorite benefit is helping me to relax for...

A life with migraine presents a unique set of challenges, most of them are quite difficult and cause us to have to dig very deep. As we do so, with...

Light sensitivity is an important issue to many people who deal with migraines. In our 2020 Migraine In America survey, 92% of respondents reported that light sensitivity was one of...

While no one ever chooses a life with migraine, we can choose to be open to the lessons that accompany the journey. From gratitude to patience, to acceptance and compassion...

Do you ever need a break from being “sick?” Unless you’re living with a chronic illness like migraine firsthand, it’s hard to understand the true weight it carries in your...

Sensitivities to sensory input are called phobias in medical language — photophobia, phonophobia, and osmophobia — but they aren't considered actual phobias. But when light, sounds, or odors are migraine...

I thought I was doing great with managing migraines… famous last words before the next strikes, right? Well, this time I was stumped for the trigger. I knew it was...

I first heard about dry brushing during my yoga teacher training. It’s a practice from Ayurvedic medicine - a 5,000-year-old sister science of yoga. It’s touted to offer a lot...

In September of 2019, Health Union (the parent company of Migraine.com) partnered with the U.S. Pain Foundation for our first ever Chronic Pain in America survey to ask members of...

If I wasn’t in so much pain, I would have had the strength to be frustrated. I had a migraine over a holiday weekend that I had been looking forward...

In the following video, Holly discusses the many ways that we, as migraineurs, play dress up to protect ourselves from migraine. Even when there’s not any sun out, we are...

In this What’s Your Secret video, Holly explores the frustrating challenge of trying to open migraine rescue medication packaging. There are many varying types of rescue medications out there and...

In the following video, Holly shares a story about how a migraine attack appeared quickly and suddenly and left her in a dangerous situation.   Has a migraine attack ever...

The restrictions and transitions related to COVID-19 have brought so much change – from changes in schedule to changes in who we see and what we do every day. Unfortunately...

This past year, I was on a mission to lose weight. I talk, in a video below, how that affected my migraine attack frequency. Below my video, you can also...

In this video, Holly discusses the phenomenon of introducing a new migraine treatment and experiencing a break from migraine only to have migraine-related symptoms return soon after.   Does this...

In this What's Your Secret video, we discuss ways to distract ourselves when dealing with pain. Living with chronic migraine can often mean living with some amount of pain on...

According to our 2018 Migraine In America survey data, 74% of those with migraine had to see more than one doctor before receiving a diagnosis. As we know, it can...