I was born with migraine disease in February of 1964, discovered its name somewhere around 1987, and have spent the last 30 years learning how to manage the illness. I wish migraine didn’t have to accompany me during the bucket list phase of my life, but that’s not how incurable illness works, is it? So […]

My migraine disease has evolved as I’ve aged. No major surprise there. So has my eyesight, flexibility, and my weight. Such is life. Migraine episode frequency has changed along with hormonal shifts from puberty through menopause.  Recently, I noticed an increase in migraines starting up during the night. For several months, I brushed them off […]

It’s tough to limit myself to only three wishes about migraine. I suppose asking for unlimited wishes is off the table. In that case, here are the troubling aspects of migraine popping into my head today. 1. I wish people would listen to me when I try to educate them about migraine disease. I feel […]

“What was my worst migraine episode?” That’s a tough question to answer. Over the course of 6 decades, I’ve had many of those episodes. In my early migraine years, I hated missing fun with family and friends because of a migraine attack. I didn’t like it when I couldn’t carry out my responsibilities at work […]

Hindsight is 20/20. I don’t know who coined this phrase, but it is annoyingly true. I’ve lived with migraine disease for over half a century. I don’t know how many times I’ve looked back at my migraine history through the lens of current knowledge and said, “I wish I would have known about this back […]

“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.” – English Proverb Developers began building my neighborhood in 2018 and hired a management company in 2022 to oversee the collection of homeowners’ association dues, maintain common areas, and act as a neutral party between residents and the developers. In 2024, developers completed the […]

Episodic migraines during the first 5 decades of my life aren’t a mystery. I can tell you about those experiences because I lived them. Speculating about migraines during the second half of my life is a little more difficult. I decided I needed to have a conversation with my doctor to get answers for a […]

You can’t take your foot off the gas when it comes to migraine disease. I know this because I took my foot off the gas somewhere around 2010. I forgot that migraine changes right along with the body’s hormonal cycles. It had been a long time since puberty, back in the late 1970s. Menopause didn’t […]

In 2004, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, the film industry released Shrek 2, Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook (Yes, this was what it was called.), and I turned 40 years old. I knew my major and minor migraine triggers and had developed good relationships with the group of people I called my […]

My migraines started in my childhood in the late 1960s. I experienced a couple of “Tammy’s headaches” a year as a child. Not frequently enough to cause a great deal of concern, but often enough for my parents to take me to the doctor at a young age. The doctor misdiagnosed the problem as an […]