Hello, my name is Rob, and I suffer from migraine headaches.
Such a simple sentence, yet such a complex condition. For nearly three decades, I suffered from debilitating, but thankfully infrequent headaches. Thinking that these were normal variety sinus headaches, I did what just about every other male of the species would do, I swallowed over-the-counter analgesics, tightened belts around my head (yeah, seriously), and tried to go about my daily life when these pounders hit.
Then, some time...
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