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1. My diagnosis is: chronic migraine
2. My migraine attack frequency is: daily
3. I was diagnosed in: chronic in 2011, migraine in 1999
4. My comorbid conditions include:
5. I take __7__ medications/supplements each day for prevention and ___3_ medications/supplements to treat an acute attack
6. My first migraine attack was: when I was 20, it was after a high tension event.
7. My most disabling migraine symptoms are: when the pain is so strong you can see straight and the ridiculous nausea
8. My strangest migraine symptoms are: the inability to speak clearly. Random words popping out
9. My biggest migraine triggers are: stress, weather changes, alcohol
10. I know a migraine attack is coming on when: yawn a lot, ears hurt
11. The most frustrating part about having a migraine attack is: inability to plan things in advance, you never know when your gonna have to bail.
12. During a migraine attack, I worry most about: my kids seeing me look so weak.
13. When I think about migraine between attacks, I think: fuck not again
14. When I tell someone I have migraine, the response is usually: oh I have those they suck. Or I had one once.
15. When someone tells me they have migraine, I think: you have no idea.
16. When I see commercials about migraine treatments, I think:they are sugar coating it…
17. My best coping tools are: a sense of humor, dark room and my bed
18. I find comfort in: my family, my dog,
19. I get angry when people say: at least it won’t kill you or it could be worse.
20. I like it when people say: nothing if I’m out and moving let me be. If I want to talk about it I will
21. Something kind someone can do for me during a migraine attack. Bring me food without me asking or just take the kids.
22. The best thing(s) a doctor has ever said to me about migraine is: that we can keep trying.
23. The hardest thing to accept about having migraine that we will never fix it, and this is my life
24. Migraine has taught me: to enjoy my small happy moment and to grab them when I can, and to slow down.
25. The quotation, motto, mantra, or scripture that gets me through an attack is: the fight song by Rachel platten
26. If I could go back to the early days of my diagnosis, I would tell t put it off
27. The people who support me most are: my husband and family and close friends
28. The thing I most wish people understood about migraine is: chronic migraine is very different than your once in a while migraine. People suffering with either are not meaning to be rude or antisocial it’s just life is loud.
29. Migraine and Headache Awareness Month is important to me because: people forget because this doesn’t kill us it doesn’t get hardly any research funding. It debilitates life. It needs to be fixed
30. One more thing I’d like to say about life with migraine is: it’s a solitary life of quiet and dark. It’s nice when you can get out once in a while
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