Welcome to the Migraine Meanderings blog where we share patient stories as well as information on migraine triggers, symptoms, disease management, treatment options, and much more! Learn more about life with migraine and discover the impact of the patient's voice.
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Migraine Symptoms: Visual Disturbances
Many people with migraine experience visual disturbances. As is true with other migraine symptoms, visual disturbances vary from person to person and attack to attack....
Attack-Based Care and the Migraine Toolbox
Is Every Migraine Attack the Same? If only managing migraine was a cookie-cutter experience, not only with everyone being the same, but also for each...
The Stoplight Theory and Migraine Attacks
What's Your Migraine Color? How many times have you been asked to rate your pain on a scale of 0-10? If you’re like me, more...
Migraine Symptoms: A Closer Look at GI Issues
Gastrointestinal symptoms commonly accompany migraine attacks. Although they do not necessarily come along with every attack, these symptoms can be quite debilitating and difficult to...
Migraine Symptoms: A Closer Look at Head Pain
“It literally feels like I was hit upside the head with a baseball bat,” says Anna Williams as she describes what a migraine attack feels...
More Than Just a Headache: Examining Migraine Symptoms
Intense head pain is usually the most notable migraine symptom, but it is not the only one. Today we begin a new blog series, More...
The Impact of Living with Chronic Migraine
Almost 40 million people in the United States are estimated to be living with migraine. Globally, that number amounts to 1 billion. When the condition...
Ten More Primary Headache Diagnoses
Did you know there are 10 more primary headache diagnoses outside the categories of migraine, tension and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia? While these are lesser known,...
What People With Migraine Want Their Friends and Family to Know
Though migraine is one of the top ten most debilitating diseases worldwide, it is often misdiagnosed, under-treated and misunderstood. Those of us who live with...
The Empowered Patient: How to take an active role in your health and care
The World Health Organization defines patient empowerment as “a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health.” Becoming an...
Managing Acute Pain: Building a Migraine Comfort Plan
We’ve all had those moments. You’re going about your day when suddenly that all too familiar pain starts building as a migraine attack shows up,...
6 Easy Ways to Beat Holiday Stress
As the countdown to Christmas is underway, here are 6 simple things you can do to beat that last minute holiday stress. 1. Take a...