This is an original long-form poem about my experience with migraines: the onset, the symptoms, and the fog that comes afterward.
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A life with migraines
A look into my life with a 20 year old migraine
“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…
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…
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…
For 20 years, I’ve endured a non-stop migraine since battling bacterial meningitis as a toddler. Despite treatments, including trigger management and medications, relief eludes me. My hope lies in future breakthroughs for migraine treatment and ultimately, a cure.
Question: How did National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month start? Answer: The drive for a National Headache Week began during the fall of 1989 in order to gain national political and public support for recognition of headaches and migraines as…
May 2021, Episode 95: How can meditation help someone with migraine or another headache disorder? There is MRI data that actually shows meditation helping to heal the brains of people in chronic pain. Dr. Lindsay Weitzel talks to Dr. Amelia…
I am a 40-year-old attorney, teacher, and wellbeing professional who continues to model, paint, and exercise…despite managing chronic cluster headache. Do what you can with what you have; you are your own best advocate.
NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION SURVEY SHOWS MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WITH MIGRAINE ARE UNABLE TO CONTROL DISEASE AND DISSATISFIED WITH CURRENT PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OPTIONS 84% of people currently taking a preventive treatment wish there was a better treatment option- Migraine disease has…
