Migraine - People Who Are Living With Migraine

Jaime Kimber

posted 07/04/2008, comments (3)

To my dearest assailant, the migraine

My only enemy, in fact. They have no name, no friends, no family, no morals, no empathy. Just me. I'm all they've needed for almost two years, and I'm all they'll ever need. That is why I am writing to them.Here I stand youngOn this hectic, heedless globePlucked from millionsTo serve as a vesselIn your shining, spectral robeHere I stand lostMy... Read more Chevron

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Jane

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posted 07/03/2008, comments (7)

Two steps forward, one step back...

I have been making steady progress over the past 18 months in having fewer migraine attacks. I have survived the menstrual migraines to menopause and am now taking bio-identical hormones. I'm gradually figuring out (and avoiding!) the food/chemical triggers and using the neti pot for environmental triggers. I've been... Read more Chevron

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posted 07/02/2008, comments (0)

Sigh.... They're Back!

I don't know what triggered them. Maybe it was going without Cymbalta for two days (I ran out). But my ice pick headaches came back! This time instead of attacking me in the temple, they stabbed me more in the right part of the back of my head!!! I took Imitrex and such hoping it'd make them go away permanently but didn't... Read more Chevron

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Eva

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posted 07/02/2008, comments (3)

On Sansert

Hi everyone, it's been a long time since I posted anything. I changed everything I do, so computer was out of question except for checking emails, now I am fine with being on the net. We also had some family issues which needed to be dealt with, and everything is fine now. I decided to drop all of my summmer courses to have time to do... Read more Chevron

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seachelley

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posted 07/02/2008, comments (2)

Just trying to find something that works

Ok i will start by saying that i have had migraines since i was six yrs old. I dont remember the med that they dr put me on then. All i know is a side effect was weight gain. Since then I just treated them myself. I would go to bed lie in a hot tub with a cool cloth. Nothing worked. Then My PCP started me on Imatrix. I took it for two months with... Read more Chevron

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