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Sharing My Headache Story with NHF – Carol F.

I had my first migraine at age seventeen. I suffered with the pain, nausea, and sensitivity to light. Over the next 20 years, I went from doctor to doctor looking for relief. I was put on Inderal as a preventative,…

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: STATIC

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

Headache Poetry: A Fearful Pain

“In fear of pain, I live each day,
My head, a traitor, wants its own way.
What sins have I committed, I’m left to explain?
What have I done to my poor, tired brain?”

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