Dealing With Headaches

Here’s a book I highly recommend for everyone, especaily people who go through chronic often-misunderstood ailments like cluster headaches or migraines. The author, Viktor Frankl, survived two Nazi concentration camps (including Auschwitz) and writes a bit about life in the camps, but them mostly about how anyone can find the will to survive when they think there’s a point to life. (The original German title translated to Saying Yes to Life Reguardless instead of Man’s Search for Meaning).

Get rid of all those self-help or thinking positively Louise Hay crapola. I mean, seriously — who do you think knows more about handling the sucky areas of life — an Auschwitz survivor, or someone who chats with Oprah?

Ok, A Migraine Ain’t Auschwitz, But…

Those of us with chronic pain often feel like we are helpless under totalitarian figures. Our pain tortures us at whim, no seems to believe us and getting any relief costs a fortune, which means we often have to choose between healthcare and necessities like food and the rent. There are many days when I think, “What’s the effing use? No matter how hard I try, I’m still gonna fail.”

Frankl’s book isn’t full of self-pity or rage against the Nazis. He’s a bit like a twentieth century Job. Bad things happen because bad things happen — end of argument. Get on with getting through the bad times instead of railing at the injustice of it all. Frankl reasons that he and all other concentration camp survivors manged to live because they thought there was a greater meaning to their lives. Everyone found their own meaning.

Viktor’s meaning was to survive long enough to write a book and teach others about logotherapy in which by finding a meaning to our lives, we can become healthier (or at least be able to get on with life).

Perhaps yours is to put food on the table for your family. Both are equally noble purposes.

Granted, there are many medical conditions which are the patient’s fault, in a way (especailly those who choose to smoke and drink), but chronic pain and migraine disease aren’t among them. If you are tired of all the self-help books which blame you for all your medical migraines and depression (such as You Can Heal Your Life by the afore-mentioned Louise Hay) and want some REAL comfort, then I recommed Man’s Search for Meaning.

Hope this helps.

Whoops! If you’ve been putting off sending anything to the April Headache Blog Carnival over at Somebody Heal Me, then you better get your skates on. Submissions close at midnight TONIGHT. You don’t need to have a blog that deals exclusinvely with headaches and migraines; just as long as your post is up on the blogoshpere somewhere where we can link to it, that’s really all you need.

The Headache Blog Carnivals usually orbit around a theme, and April’s is no exception. This month, it’s “your best coping strategies for headaches and migraines”. However, if you have a post that would be of particular interest to those with chronic head pains, then Diane urges you to give it a try. Past Headache Blog Carnivals have been like the Migraineur’s Reader’s Digest of information and really interesting reads. Let’s see what magic we can mixup this time, eh?

Let’s see if I can remember to shoot that Tom Crusie post over before midnight tonight (if I forget, then I can blame Tom. In fact, if YOU forget, you can also blame Tom. I mean, what CAN’T you blame on Tom? It’s all so simple, really.)

Diane Lee, who hosts the Carnival, says she needs a few things along with your submisssion:

1) The name of your blog
(2) The address of your blog
(3) The name of your post
(4) The address of your post
(5) A brief description (2-3 lines or less) of your post

Or, you can just go over to Somebody Heal Me to see the new design changes and get filled in on the medical news of help to those with chronic pain that often shoots right over my head.

Get writing and posting and emailing to Diane at SomebodyHealMe@DianeLee.net and have a pain free weekend.

And if you don’t have a pain free weekend, then it’s all Tom Cruise’s fault.

Whenever I get a migraine or severe headache (I get several kinds — lucky me), I always try to remind myself that I could have it a lot worse. And here is one of those stories to remind all of us with migraines and chronic headaches that we could have it much worse, too.

So, what’s worse than migraines or cluster headaches?

How about going onto an Internet forum to find advice and solidarity from fellow sufferers and then have it hacked into by sadists who suddenly flash animated gifs at you to trigger migraines and eplieptic seizures?

Yipperdoodle, that might do it.

A lot of epileptics also have migraines, which is one reason I’m venting about this here. About 3% of epileptics can have migraines and severe seizures (even grand mal seizures) triggered by flashing lights.

I Wish I Was Making This Up

I found this story (appropriately entitled “Pure Concentrated Evil”) from Topix, which in turn found it from the blog Scribal Terror, who in turn found it from Wired, who got it from God, I guess. Or perhaps the Epilepsy Foundation, which ran the forum.

It is currently thought that the hackers were members of Anonymous, but that’s just a theory and nothing’s been proven yet. The Wired article went on to report this:

Circumstantial evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective of griefers best known for their recent war on the Church of Scientology. The first flurry of posts on the epilepsy forum referenced the site EBaumsWorld, which is much hated by Anonymous. And forum members claim they found a message board thread — since deleted — planning the attack at 7chan.org, a group stronghold.

But you know how the Web is — we’ll probably never find out who did it and even if we did, we might not have enough evidence to prove it.

But Whoever It Turns Out To Be

There was no reason for the attack or to target eplieptics. It sounds as if, perhaps, somebody needs a part time job? Hanging’s too good for them. We should hang them, bury them, then unbury them and shoot them. And then pee on them, for good measure.

On that happy mental picture, have a pain free weekend.

Diane Lee at Somebody Heal Me Blog was to helpfully host another blog carnival for all of us suffering from migraines and chronic headaches. However, the migraines came knocking (presumably) and so the carnival was unexpectedly shifted to Teri Robert at My Migraine Connection.

Well, part of the fun of a carnival is trying to find it, eh?

Last month, the Blog Carnial focused on Love & Migraines (more or less the same thing, really) and this month it’s Friends & Migraines (and we ain’t talkin’ the TV show.) The theme, more specifically, is advice on how to maintain friendships when you have migraines or chronic headaches.

Highlights

• “It’s A Migraine, My Friends” from the best named migraine blog in the universe, Free My Brain From Migraine Pain, written by migraineur Megan. It’s a longer post than usual, but worth the time to read. She’s had a much, much better time of keeping friends than most people with migraines. It’s nice to know these people exist.
• Over at The Daily Headache, there’s a Letter To People Without Chronic Pain that you can shove in the face of those “friends” who think you are faking the pain. Another helping is about guilt we feel when our migraines let our friends down. Thank you, Kerrie.
• Lori Jewett at Between Us Girls, which deals with all kinds of woemen’s issues other than head pain, brings us “Migraione Pain — What’s A Girl To Do?” (Why, suffer, of course!) This is an overview of migraines for those who haven’t a clue as to what they are.

Am I In It?

Somehow, I’m in the Friends & Migraines Blog Carnival twice (The Daily Headache also has two). I’m greatly complimented. Send me Prozac. Posts are “Friends and Migraines” and “Animal Magic for Headaches”. I’ve had tremendous bad luck trying to keep human friends who did not have chronic pain, but amazingly good luck with animal friends.

Next month, Diane Lee intends on hosting the Blog Carnival, but no topic has been picked out yet. The Blog Carnival is open to any blogger who might have a post that would interest those with chronic head pains. Sorry — no money is invloved. But you do get publicity.

You have very few friends when you have a lot of migraines. However, this is not necessarily a bad thing. The friends you do manage to have tend to prove themselves to be a lot more honest and have a better sense of humor than most fair weather friends. Those are the people friends. Animal friends don’t seem to ever take it personally when you get a migraine attack. They simply blink and get on with their lives. But people friends….well, people friends suck, for the most part.

They Don’t Believe You

I’ve lost of what I first assumed were my friends when the migraines hit. I had to suddenly back out of a lot of plans because I couldn’t stand up, much less go out and party. After the first couple of times, the accusations start, my favorite being:

“If you don’t want to be friends, just say so.”

Migraine attacks often don’t look like anything is happening to you to people who never have migraines. Not unless you’re throwing up, but that seems to happen only a fraction of the time when you are clobbered by a migraine attack, and never at a convienient time to show that you’re telling the truth.

One time I was started by an ex-friend who thought I was doing drugs whenever I said I had a migraine. People tend to think the worst. It’s a survival mechanism, but it’s also damn annoying.

I have had two freinds who were epilieptics. They had no trouble with my migraines. Gee — I wonder why? Perhaps they went through some of the same things. The one friend I had in England who was cursed with unpredictable Grand Mal seizures was often accussed of either being drunk or high on drugs when he was having seizures.

What To Do

If your friends feel somehow threatened by your migraines, get new friends. Now, you could be lucky enough to have a non-migrainuer friend who asks you “What’s is like?” and then listens to your reply. Now, that friend has a good chance of really wanting to be your friend. You’ll soon know deep inside why someone wants to be your friend. If they are annoyed about you having migraines or tell you that “it’s all psychological”, then they want something of yours — but not your company. You’re better off without these people.

Another option is to get a dog, cat or even goldfish. I’m not joking. Pets can help lower your blood pressure, help you relax and always are appreciative of your company (well — mostly appreciative of your company). Just their calm presence can help you have the confidence to try and talk with other people instead of becoming a total recluse. And if you don’t know what to talk about, talk about the pets.

Be A Friend To Yourself

This is one of those saying that used to drive me nuts because it sounded to New Age-y. But , even more annoyingly, it works. You have to enjoy your own company before anyone else can stand enjoying your company. Also, enjoying time by yourself takes away a lot of pressure of being alone, which can certainly aggravate a migraine.

There are also migraine support groups that meet online if you want to communicate with someone who knows what you are going through.

Hope this helps.

Those lucky migrainers in the UK with access to the NHS (Hational Health Service) can find help on managing their condition and get a voice for them in Parliment from Headache UK. Recently, they released the findings of a survey of severe headaches in the UK that are not caused by the England World Cup soccer team.

How Are Those Heads Across The Pond?

Not too good, according to the survey. In a nation of about 60 million, 10 million are haveing their lives severely affected by headaches and migraines. That comes to about 190,000 migraine attacks in the UK every single damn day. (Damn is not a bad word in the UK as it is in the US). Migraines and headaches are responsible for 20% of all absenteesim from the UK workplace. That’s thought to translate to costing UK businesses (or business in the UK owned by other countries) one and a half billion Pounds Sterling — which translates to $3 billion (sorry — my keyboard doesn’t have the little pound symbol for you to look at.)

Most tellingly, the survey reported that 65% were really unhappy with the care they have. (I guess if they were happy, then they would call out of work even MORE often … sorry, bad joke.) 28% reorted that their doctors didn;t know enough about headaches and migraines to have any sort of chance at helping them.

The Point

Yesterday, Headache UK took their Position Paper, which includes the survey results and comments from individual migraineurs, to the House of Commons. (Apparantly the House of Lords just do not do headaches). During the All Party Parlimentary Group on Primary Headache Disorders, Headache UK will outline recommendations and a need for urgency about caring for heads in the UK. Headache specialists will press their points, as well as actual migraineurs describing what life is like for them.

This is very similar to the Congressional hearing for more headache research money that happened last fall.

However, Parliment has drafted up a nice paper and actually written some goals down, including:

That this House recognises that the 15 per cent of the UK population with migraine andcluster headache disorders has a complex neurological condition causing severe pain and debilitating neurological symptoms and that the cost to the economy is in excess of £1
billion per annum; and urges the Department of Health to ensure in relation to headache
services that guidance to NHS primary care trusts for the provision of such services is
adhered to and implemented in practice, to encourage health professionals at all levels to
develop skills to assess and treat all types of disabling headache effectively and to raise
awareness of the impact of these conditions

Americans have yet to get an impressively worded document about helping people with headaches besides the ususal comic relief that Congress provides.

Although complaining about the NHS is a national sport in England (and you do have to wait a long time to get anything done), it is still the best health care game in town. As someone who has lived on both sides of the Pond and currently has no medical insurance of any kind, I speak from experience when I say to those in the UK:

“It could be a lot worse. You could be a migraineur in America.”

:: Rant Mode On ::

Right up front, let me say that I’m not for drug addiction of any kind. But it does seem very hypocritical of Those In Charge (whoever they might actually be) to be so blind as to the causes of drug addiction (and I’m including alcohlism with drug addicts, as well). According to a recently released report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), by 2017, one out every five dollars spent in America will be on health care.

And Those In Charge wonder why there is a rise in drug addiction. Could it be because getting street drugs or alcohol is a hell of a lot cheaper than going to the doctor? Naaaahhh, couldn’t be. Must be those terrorists and left-wingers, eh?

Why Are We Not Rioting In The Streets?

Well, we aren’t rioting in the streets because of this insanity because we are too tired, in too much pain and are mainly too drugged up to do much of anything constructive. Believe me, you don’t want to ever try to organize a Million Migraineur March. You’ll be lucky if a baker’s dozen show up in dark sunglasses vomiting into buckets. Well, that definately would make somebody in Washington scared.

And yes, there are people who become drug addicts in an attempt to medicate chronic pain conditions such as migraines and severe chronic headaches. That’s kind of why I’m banging on about this. When you get into such chronic pain and discover that you cannot afford to go get treatment, you can wind up feeling so helpless that drug addiction sounds like a good deal.

Here’s a Thought

Hey, if we could lower the cost of stuff — mainly health care — do you think that might be a good incentive for people not to turn to illegal (and legal) drugs in the first place?

For example, there’s program for homeless alcoholics in Seattle that has decided to give housing first and THEN give rehabilitation. The effects have been that alcoholics drink a lot less — and has saved the city some two to three million dollars.

Health care is a basic need, just like housing and food. We should be able to get it legally through doctors instead of having no choice BUT to turn to addiction as a way to kill the pain.

:: Rant mode off ::

Perhaps the label has faded on your bottle of pills. Or, perhaps you found some suspiscious looking pills in a corner of Grannie’s purse. Most likely, you just like looking at cool internet sites that are interesting as well as informative. Previously, in order to identify mysterious pills, I’d ask a Magic Eight Ball. Now, I can go to Drugs.com’s Pill Idenitifier.

The Ususal Disclaimer

Before you can use Drug.com’s nifty Pill Identifier, you have to agree not to sue them if things go horribly wrong in the misidentification of a pill. It’s the usual “I Agree/ I Disagree” sort of thing. In other words, you promise to use your common sense. If you know you are severely lacking in common sense, then don’t take ANY pills you can’t at first recognize.

Also, the Pill Idenitfier is for an American audience. Sorry, every other country in the world (including Canada). You could try the pill identifier at RXList.com, but it doesn’t look as easy to use as Drugs.com’s.

Easy, Peasy

All pills have some sort of number or letter or combination thereof on them. These are quite small, so you may need a magnifying lese in order to see them. You enter this code into the pill identifier. You can enter the color and the shape of the pill, but that info is optional.

Not only are you given the name of the drug, but photo “mug shots” as well. You are also given a list of the drugs codes most searched for, which can be amusing when you are in a certain frame of mind. If you still can’t find out what your mystery pill is, you can try the Perscription Drug Forum and cross your fingers.

And if you do not know how old the pills are, just assume they are past their expiration date and throw them out. Please don’t take any pills that are past their expiration date.

Is there any topic more appropriate on a migraine blog than love? Love and migraines just seem to go together “like a horse and carriage” (as the old song goes). However, those with migraines just can’t seem to help getting involved with other people, having kids, needing to go to work, that kind of painfully inconvienient stuff.

Diana Lee once again helps out those headache prone and migraineurs who have to deal with other people by offering her third edition of the Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival. This month, the theme is (mainly) “love & romance with migraines.” That doesn’t mean you court your migraines (”I’m in love with my migraines!”), but are in relationships with other people while you also happen to have migraines.

Highlights

Although all of the entries in this blog carnival is worth your valuable time, here are the ones that particularly caught my interest:

• The Migraine Girl’s “Single Migraineur Finds Her Match“. Although the match is new, it’s still a rather hopeful article even for the most jaded of us.
• Headache Advisor’s “Valentine Headaches” is a short and sweet article on maintaining relationships when you have chronic pain.
• James from Headache and Migraine News Blog offers up “9 Aphrodisiacs for the Romantic with Migraine”. None of these suggestions are for really rare or hard to get items. And most of them are delicious. So, worse comes to worse, forget the date and just tuck in to the food.
• Oh, yeah, and one from me about the consequences of Valentine’s night.

  Next Month

  Diana is bravely carrying on hosting these blog carnivals. Next Month’s topic is “Maintianing friendships when you have migraines and headaches.” Submissions are due Friday, March 7th. You need to have a blog in order to submit and have the post be about living with massive massive head pains or chronic pains.

The second in a series of blog carnivals devoted to headache and migraine care went up this week. This series of headache blog carnivals is being sponsored bravely by Diane Lee on her excellent website “Somebody Heal Me”. If you’re not familiar with the term “blog carnival”, all it means is a list and short synopsis of various blog posts aroung the blogosphere that have to do with one subject. Sadly, no cotton candy (candly floss) is sold.

Starting The Year Off Right

That’s the theme of the January headache blog carnival, so all of the posts have something to do with trying to make a new start or take our headache-ridden lived in a helpful new direction. And some of these posts are good for a laugh, which will definately help relax any tense muscles! And yes, a post from this blog made it in there (phew!)

Some highlights include:

• Carnival host’s list of Biggest Migraine & Depression News Stories of 2007 Migraines and clinical depression often come together in a pair, (I have both, for example). Also, many anti-depressants have shown to help reduce migraines. So combining the two topics is only natural.
• At HeadacheAdvisor.com, there is a thought provoking self-questionnaire to take for your Headache Resolutions of 2008.
• At ChronicBabe.com (apparantly named because she has chronic pain and that she’s chronically “babe-a-liscious”), 5 Steps To Start The New Year Right has some proactive and low cost suggestions for helping ease stress and thus helping you ease your chronic pains.

Next Month

The monthly Headache Blog Carnival is to come out every second Monday of each month. Submissions are due the Friday before publication date. If your blog is not strictly headache or migraine related, don’t worry. If your post fits the topic, Diane will consider it. In her words: “Entries on topics that are particularly useful, educational or inspirational for headache and migraine sufferers are also welcome and encouraged.”

Next month is a pretty scary topic: “how to have love & romance in your life when you also have headaches & migraines”. Calling Stephen King — here’s a topic right up your alley! I’m sure you need even more publicity…

Even though there are hundred of blogs, magazine articles and television news segments devoted to migraines and headaches, there’s still a lot we don’t know about them. Just having a headache could be the symptom of hundreds of conditions or maladies. And there is still no general consensus on what causes a migraine — just a few theories. This is stuff we need to know and we need more headache research funding in order to find this stuff out.

Here’s A New Year’s Resolution For You

Want to get 2008 off to a flying start? Lets get some grassroots action going for more headache research funding! Growl at your Congressional representatives to stop wasting money with [insert your most hated government money wasting project here] and start spending money wisely by funding research for headaches and migraines. The best time to get their attention in this election year is in the EARLY part of the year (January and February, preferably.) By August, they won’t be paying attention to much else besides the polls.

In September, a group of doctors and headache suffers went to Washington, DC to speak about the need for more headache research fuinding. Considering that an estimated 28 million Americans are afflicted with headaches, why NOT invest in discovering the causes and finding better, safer treatments? Think of all the time you spend with headaches of one sort or another. I know that if I’ve put all the time together I spent being sidelined by a headache or migraine, I would have had at least two years to do something else.

Real Numbers

NBC news estimates that the cost of treating migraines and headaches in America costs at least $13 billion per year in lost time at work, work mistakes made because of pain, and work that has to be redone.

Migraines are considered the 12th most disabling conditions among Americans.

In 2006, only $10 million in total was spent on funding headache research, which is about 0.05% of the total budget for the National Institute of Health.

What Can You Do?

There’s a couple things you can do to spread grassrroots action for more headache research funding. Check out the relatively new website, which will be fully functional in January, the Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy, download the flier, distribute it and then bother your representatives.

Hopefully, our suffering will be given a higher priority in time to affect the 2009 NIH budget. Although one of the best things you can do to ease headache pain is to lie down, that tactic often does work in influencing Congress.

Hey, I just noticed on the little blurb about this site (which I didn’t write — it just materialized one day!) that I’m suppossed to be posting about support sites every now and then. I guess you noticed that I haven’t really done too many posts about Headache and/or Migraine Support Sites…as in, this is the first post on the subject.

When I talk about support groups here, I am NOT talking about 12 step programs for addicts. That’s a different animal. If you are an addict, go to the 12 step progams and KEEP GOING.

I’m Not Against Support Groups, But…

You need to be a certain type to benefit from any kind of support group, whether it’s in the real world or online. If you are prone to get obsessed about anything, then you need to be careful. Also, if you have problems saying “No,” you need to be DOUBLY cafeful, or soon you’ll have the responsibilities of the support group dropped in your lap before you know it. Now that will be a MAJOR source of headaches, both literal and metaphorical.

The best way to deal with support groups for physical ailments is to go only a few times, take the literature home with you, read the literature often and then not go to the group again for at least a year.

My current main support group is composed of my relatives who also get a variety of head pains. For me, that’s the best kind of support group.

The Pros

Support groups let you know that you are not alone. They also can make you feel better knowing that you don’t have it as bad as other people. They also are an ever changing resource of tips and tricks for coping with headaches and migraines. And, it’s always nice to talk to people who know and can sympathise what you are going through.

You can find Headache and Migraine Support Groups in your local paper, in the phone book, or go online and enter “headache support group” into your favorite search engine. For example, if you have cluster headaches, then you can find resources, sympathy and some good laughs from Cluster Headaches Worldwide Support Group.

Basically, if you can think of any medical condition, there’s a support group online out there somewhere.

The Cons

Sometimes, support group meetings (whether online or in real life), start to turn into contests or “Who Has The Worst Pain.” Although it is a great source of stress releif to complain, there should be limits on it. Hearing new symtpms that sound frightening can plant some nasty suggestions in your subconscious and suddenly you are experiencing new symptoms, too. You always need to take these meetings in perspective.

Keep your personal space. Don’t make yourself the only means of finacial or emotional support for the other members of your group. Although it sounds selfish, you need to follow this for yor own survival — YOUR HEALTH MATTERS MOST. Don’t be afraid to tell any other member to bugger off and leave you alone.

And if you are on an online support group, it’s much better for computer’s security if you stay away from peer to peer networks and ANY kind of file sharing. Any peer to peer network just does not have the security of one admin on a regular internet site that can filter out spyware or other kinds of malware. Not that you need to be paranoid about this, just keep it in mind.

Hope this helps.

No, you’re not the only one in the world who gets migraines. And migraine headaches are not a recent phenomenon. Although migraines are still very much of a mystery, there is solid evidence that many historical figures suffered with migraines. Here are just some of them who somehow got on with life despite migraines. Hopefully, their stories may be an inspriration to you.

Claude Monet

This amazing painter, who lived from 1840-1926 created works of startling brilliance and light, even when he was nearly blind at the end of his life. It is thought that some of his bright colors were inspired by auras. In Monet’s lifetime, migraines were thought to be a sign of insanity. His works are so admired, they are targeted for theft. In August of 2007, Cliffs Near Dieppe (1897) were stolen with two other painitngs in a brazen daylight robbery in France.

Elvis Presley

You might have heard of this guy. He had a lot of health related problems, and migraines were one of them. Perhaps that’s why he wore dark sunglasses a lot. One 1975 hospital stay was for examining his eyes becuase of pains and auras identical to that of migraines. By taking so much medication, he probably also suffered from rebound headaches. Sometimes he slurred his speech in a way that often happens to migraine sufferers.

Joan of Arc

If Monet kept quiet about his migraines in the 1800’s, then perhaps poor Joan (1412-1431) should have as well. Although now a cannonized Saint and considered a great hero, she was excecuted for witchcraft because she saw visions and heard voices. Visual and audio hallucinations are common with migraine sufferers. Tradition states that she also suffered severe pains in her head, which is another clue that she had migraines.

Terrell Davis

Terrell Davis of the Denver Broncos got a migraine…during the Super Bowl! However, he was able to return to the game, help- Denver win and become MVP. He was able to manage this migraine with Imitrex and through keeping a headache journal. More details of Terrel’s story is here.

Zeus

This was the Big God of the Greek Olympic panthenon, later known as Jupiter to the Romans. Greek Gods are especially known for mimicing human foilbles and illnesses. Zeus got one of His lovers, Metis, pregnant, which is a headache in and of itself. But Zues received a prophecy that the baby would one day kill him. So he swallowed the fetus.
Some time afterwards, he got the Mother of All Migraines. His head had to be split open and out jumped a fully grown (and fully armored) Athena.

Seems that Harry Potter’s intense and frequent headaches may finally be diagnosed after six years. The New England Centre for Headache diagnoses them as “probably migraine.” (Whichita Eagle)

Via comparisons between human and slime mould pain molecules, it’s been found that there’s only about 10% similarity. Meaning potential for a new analgesic to treat recurring and debilitating headaches. (Science Daily)

Apparently, if your parents made money when you were younger, you were 50% less likely to get migraines. (relieve-migraine-headache.com)

Don’t want to read news about headache research, medications or types? Looking for someone who’s telling their story? Check out Kerrie and Paul.

If you are aware other blogs relating to headaches, especially chronic ones, please email me or leave a comment.