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Isa’s “Thunderbooms and Bellybooms”

My name is Isa. I’m nine years old and this is how migraines effect me.

PJ’s Story of Perseverance

Neverending Headache!

The Glymphatic System

July 2021, Episode 99: The glymphatic system is a network of vessels that clear waste from the central nervous system, mostly during sleep. Lindsay Weitzel, Ph.D., and Amelia Barrett, MD discuss the glymphatic system and its role in migraine, idiopathic…

Telemedicine for Migraine and Headache

July 2021, Episode 98: Have you tried telemedicine for your headache and migraine care? What are the benefits and limitations? How do you know when you actually need to be seen in person? This week on Heads Up Dr. Lindsay…

Migraine Triggered by Laughing and Crying – Daria’s Story

Just breathe

Freight Train Coming, by Christopher Clauss

This is an original long-form poem about my experience with migraines: the onset, the symptoms, and the fog that comes afterward.

Maggie’s Story

A life with migraines

20 Years and Counting with Migraine – Melissa’s Story

A look into my life with a 20 year old migraine

Light and Headache Disorders: Understanding Light Triggers and Photophobia

“Wearing sunglasses indoors is increasing your sensitivity to light.” My wife and I were floored when her headache specialist made this statement. Chronic migraine had made her so sensitive to light that she had to wear sunglasses indoors. During an…

Veterans and Headache Disorders

June 2021, Episode 97: Lindsay Weitzel, PhD, welcomes Jan Lewis Brandes, MD for this special edition of Heads UP to discuss veterans’ issues, post-traumatic concussion, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the multitude of other injuries leading to migraine and headache…

Chronic Migraine

June 2021, Episode 96: Did you know that optimal treatment of episodic migraine is an important factor in avoiding chronification of migraine? Have you heard that obesity contributes to chronic migraine and wondered what the connection was? what happens if…

Magdalena Murrieta