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Talking About Your Migraine Disease With Loved Ones and Friends

As supportive as they are, friends and loved ones may not fully understand how migraine disease impacts your life. Your experience with migraine is different from everyone else’s, so even others living with migraine may not understand your situation. You…

20 Years and Counting with Migraine – Melissa’s Story

A look into my life with a 20 year old migraine

Causes of Headache in College Students

Many people experience headache disorders, often due to triggers related to their age, gender, health, and overall lifestyle. College students are no different. In fact, these young and seemingly healthy individuals often lead lifestyles that put them at a very…

Finding Myself with Migraine – Shoshana Lipson’s Story

People often look back on childhood memories with fondness – trips with family; playing with a puppy; long, hot summer days spent outdoors. For me, it is a slightly different story. One of my earliest childhood memories is of severe…

Environmental & Physical Factors

Does light, sound, or temperature trigger your migraine attacks? Environmental factors that can trigger a migraine attack include a change in climate or weather (such as a change in humidity or temperature), a change in altitude or barometric pressure, high…

Migraine Disease and Covid-19

Covid-19 is the most frightening viral illness to strike the world and has infected millions. It is a disorder with many presentations; most commonly cough, loss of taste and smell, sore throat, pneumonia, fever, disorders of clotting, and headache. A…

Monitor Sleep, Relieve Headache

Sleep is a fickle factor when it comes to headaches. While too much or too little sleep can often spark a migraine, napping can sometimes relieve unbearable head pain. How should you manage your sleep patterns in order to control…

Refractory Migraine – Part 1

November 2019, Episode 35: Dr. Vincent Martin and Dr. Lindsay Weitzel discuss different types of Refractory Migraine and triggers. This is the first part of a three-part series on Refractory Migraine.

How Does Migraine Impact Men?

Migraine is a debilitating disease that impacts almost 40 million people in the United States. While unfortunate, those who experience regular occurrences of migraine have a higher risk of developing other health issues, such as anxiety, depression and insomnia, to…

How Does Migraine Impact Men?

Sharing My Headache Story with NHF – Jessie B.H.

I am a 32-year-old woman and I have suffered with migraines for as long as I can remember. My mother and grandmother were both forced to live with migraines too, so I feel it is hereditary. I’ve seen countless doctors…

Sharing My Headache Story with NHF – Robin

I am a 51, almost 52-year-old woman. As a young child, I had chronic daily headaches. I cannot remember a time or day of no headaches. My first migraine was at age 5. I was running up the side of…

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