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April Headache Blog Carnival Posted

The April Headache & Migraine Blog Carnival is now up! This month’s carnival focuses on basic coping strategies for living with headache and migraine. I enjoyed reading the great posts and learning about some blogs I’d never heard of:

Fighting the Good Fight at My Life with Migraine
Coping with Migraine and Chronic Pain at Down the [...]

MyMigraineConnection’s Poetry Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of MyMigraineConnection’s Putting Our Heads Together poetry contest!

First Place: Massive Migraine by mopar496

Second Place: Car-jacked by Roey

Third Place: Perpetually Now by MaxJerz

Fourth Place: The Keeper by desrivgir

Honorable Mention:

My Ghostly Shadow by SEG
A Rare Day by cdelavarre
Pain Inside My Head by thedoglady
The Thorn by Brynnwriter
The Stranger’s Eyes by Roey
Be sure to [...]

Weirdest Migraine Trigger Contest

Free My Brain from Migraine Pain blog is hosting a weirdest migraine trigger contest. We’ve all got some weird ones — what’s yours? Submit it to Megan at megan[at]trufflehunter[dot]us by midnight tomorrow, April 30 Friday, May 2. You could be one of the lucky ones with a really strange trigger!

March Headache & Pain Blog Carnivals

Check out March’s blog carnivals on headache and pain. The Headache Blog Carnival, which is about maintaining friendships, is up at My Migraine Connection. The Pain Blog Carnival is up at How to Cope With Pain.

Learning About Intracranial Hypertension (aka Pseudotumor Cerebri)

Intracranial hypertension (IH) is a headache disorder where the body cannot effectively absorb or drain CSF. It is caused by too much cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure inside the skull. Also referred to as benign intracranial hypertension and pseudotumor cerebri, many people with headaches fear IH is the cause. The most common symptoms are:

Severe headache
Visual changes
Whooshing noise in one [...]

Your Five Minutes Could Increase NIH Funding for Headache Research

Urge your US House of Representatives member to support increasing the National Institutes of Health’s headache research funding by sending this pre-written e-mail no later than Monday, March 17. That’s all that’s required, though you are encouraged to include a personal note on how headache disorders affect you.
According to the National Headache Foundation, “NIH grants [...]

New York Times Migraine Blog Features The Daily Headache

In Beyond Kittens, Beyond Angels, the final post on the New York Times migraine blog, All in My Head author Paula Kamen features The Daily Headache and an interview with yours truly. It is a great post on the importance of online communities in dealing with illness. Congratulations to Loolwa Khazoom and Jenni Prokopy whose [...]

Headache & Pain Blog Carnivals

Check out February’s blog carnivals on headache and pain. Somebody Heal Me is hosting the Headache Blog Carnival, which is about migraine and romance. The Pain Blog Carnival is up at How to Cope With Pain.

Oliver Sacks Answers New York Times Migraine Blog Readers’ Questions

Renowned writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks describes non-visual auras, correlations between migraine and memory loss, migraine’s connection to strange dreams and more in Answers to Reader Questions on the New York Times migraine blog. Inquiries and responses aren’t about medical advice, but less frequently discussed components of migraine.
Topics covered:

Non-visual auras (like hallucinating or distorting sounds [...]

Helping Others Understand: A Letter to People Without Chronic Pain

Wish that your friends, family and coworkers had a better idea of what you’re going through? This anonymous letter has circulated on forums and by e-mail for a few years, but is always worth repeating.

Letter to people without chronic pain:
Having chronic pain means many things change, and a lot of them are invisible. Unlike having [...]