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Kyky Knight- I feel as though I am always walking a fine line of employed and not-so-employed when it comes to balancing my work life and my migraines. Along with other illnesses such as chronic anxiety and depression, migraine can take a pretty intrusive role in my life and can make keeping a job really difficult. One too many sick days, one too many requests for accommodation and I could very easily be seen as unreliable and out of a job. For that reason, I often find myself pushing through intense symptoms while on the clock, and loading up on multiple jobs (I... Read more
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Editorial Team- In February 2015, a group of physicians, led by Dr. Jonathan H. Smith of the Department of Neurology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, wrote a citizen petition to the FDA. In the petition letter, the physicians urge the FDA to add a warning label regarding the possibility of medication overuse headaches to acute, over-the-counter (OTC) migraine products (also known as combination analgesic headache medications).1 Right before the start of 2018, the FDA released a response letter to the petition, and granted the physicians’ request.2 A new warning label will now be added to FDA-approved OTC migraine medications... Read more
Holly Baddour- If given the option to have pain every day or just a few times a week, most people would probably choose the latter, right? Of course. When it comes to the complex neurological condition that is migraine, the issue is not so simple and we don’t get that choice. Some of us have chronic migraine and others of us have episodic migraine. Still others transition from one to another and then back again or have some combination of the two. Of course there is no way to say one type of migraine is better or worse than another. Pain is... Read more
Prof. Joanna Kempner- Three is an adorable age for kids — especially when they start copying their grown-ups. My fierce and feisty three-year old daughter loves to put a surgical mask over her face, insert a stethoscope into her ears, and order each of her “patients” to lie down to be poked and prodded. I once caught my son holding a magnifying mirror to his face, pretending to pluck hairs from his chin. No comment on who he was pretending to be. But nothing prepared me for the first time my son ran into the bedroom with an icepack pressed to his head,... Read more
The Migraine Girl- When I was younger, going to get my haircut wasn’t something I thought of as a luxurious or particularly nurturing experience. I didn’t go often, and I didn’t really do anything daring with my hair. Once I started paying for my own haircuts, I went even less often, and I usually went to a chain store that was conveniently located and really fast. Now that I live in a city with a thriving local business scene, I think more carefully about how and where I spend my... Read more
#purpleproject- It took months of testing and there are still some serious additional diagnoses I don’t feel comfortable even speaking about as possibilities, but after many medications and tests, my neurologist confirmed I have a complex migraine disorder called Hemiplegic Migraines. Hemi – half… this explained why 90% of the time I was experiencing paralysis on half my body. But why!? Not many really have theories of why this occurs in the people it does, but what I can tell you is that it’s painful, it’s debilitating and it’s fear-inducing in the worst way. If you google the symptoms, some of... Read more
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I am a male putting myself through school, working every day I’m at college and suffering from chronic migraines. When i miss days teachers or my boss thinks I’m just being lazy. I am registered with my university as having a disability but that only grants me the ability to not get marked down on attendance ( and only for the teachers that agree to let me miss days ). I have to work twice as hard and with half of the information when I miss class, and as a result my GPA takes hits and my spirit is weakened.... Read more
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