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Sharing My Headache Story with NHF – Rachel A.

I started having vascular headaches after a car accident in 1999. At first, they started out as infrequent, mild annoyances with extra sensitivity to sunlight. But as I grew older, they began to impede on my life. Some months I…

Sharing My Headache Story with NHF – Chris

I’ve suffered from severe Migraine headaches for well over 10 years. I have been to six different Neurologists and each one of them gave me different prevention pills to try and keep the headaches away, including Topamax, Effexor, and Verapamil,…

Sharing My Headache Story with NHF – Dr. Scott

I have been diagnosed as having chronic daily intractable migraines. I’ve struggled to keep working for 11 years, but they kept getting more intense. No medications have helped, and my doctors have tried every known medication that is not contraindicated….

Headache Poetry: The Unknown Mystery Headache

“My body is weak and I almost fall.
I’m numb everywhere and can’t stand it at all”

Headache Poetry: The Pain Never Goes Away; I Call It My Friend

“I call you my Friend, you are always there, From dawn to dusk, every day.”

Submitted Poetry: The Noodle is Under Attack

“It starts in the front and moves to the back.
My noodle is under attack”

Headache Poetry: Status "Migrainosus"

“I struggle with the pain.
Nothing to do but wait,
I cannot see the light
screaming Inside my head.”

Headache Poetry: STATIC

“Loud static pulsing through my head
then the pressure pushing and pounding
through my skull.”

Headache Poetry: Oh What A Day

“Today I have a headache -“

Headache Poetry: Never Far Behind

“Never far behind…looming there. They wait.”

I Have Learned to Fly

“A little seed, a little soil
A little nurturing to help and then a tree blossoms
And blooms and then overcomes the forest.”

Headaches are a Thing in Life

“Headaches are a thing in life.”

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