Migraine World Summit Days 5 – 8 Takeaways
A final examination of interviews covering medication overuse headache, access barriers for a rural population, and how sleep connects to migraine.
Tag: medication overuse headache
A Permanent Abortive Break
How does one break away from migraine pain when the use of the migraine abortive medications specifically comes with headaches as a side effect?
You don’t.
Medication Rebound or Natural Migraine Progression
Over the past few weeks, for some reason a question I’ve got a lot has had to do with what scares me most in this world. I’ve probably given a different answer each time, but here’s the honest one that lives with me every single day: my medicine. My medicine scares the absolute crap out […]
With Pain Comes Fear
Every morning moves along as if it were a perfectly tuned clock. The same three rounded scoops of ground Sumatra go into my coffee maker. The same half a pot of coffee sits staying warm as I make my way through each cup. The same 2 scrambled eggs get fluffed and covered with cheese. The […]
The Slippery Slope of Medication Overuse
Medicine Overuse. Dependency. A never ending, hard to break, cycle, pushed by medical professionals without considering the risks. Wednesday I was diagnosed with potential medicine overuse headache, or rebound headache. Can I say that I am at all shocked? No. Is this something I worried about every second of every day? Absolutely. We’ve replaced on […]
My Life. My Migraine. 