Renee Russell
I was diagnosed with episodic migraine in 1994 and had the disease mostly under control until 2013 when the disease became intractable. I lost 7 months of my life to it that year until a medical leave helped restore some normality to my existence. In June of 2016, this insidious disease once again began to wreak havoc in my life and by September of that year I lost my job and livelihood. I became chronically intractable once again only this time I also acquired several co-morbid conditions including — but not limited to — major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation, anxiety, vertigo, dizziness, syncope, dysautonomia, tinnitus, nausea, vomiting, medication-induced anorexia, aphasia, short-term and near term memory loss, extreme heat and cold sensitivity, hemiplegia, ocular disturbances including hallucinations, cacosmia, allodynia, phonophobia, misophobia, and a host of other symptoms.
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