Keep Trying
I’m celebrating using the last class on my 20-class yoga pass. It only took 10 months to go to 20 classes! Each card is good for a year and the last one expired before I got to use all the classes on it. I mention yoga so much…
Chronic Migraine
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Chronic Illness Workshop Fail
In Chronic Pain Workshop Totally Unprepared for Patient With Chronic Pain, Sarcozona, who is a PhD student with chronic migraine, highlights a serious issue for people with all kinds of chronic illness: Being sick doesn’t come with an instruction manual. When a chronically ill person…
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Migraine Expectations
Three days of a migraine unresponsive to medication last week and I was fed up. The evening of the third day, I was worried that I’d broke something by eating some triple-chocolate brownies and the pain would never again relent. Melodramatic, maybe, but the fear…
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Re: Migraine Hell (An Important Distinction)
When I wrote about “migraine hell,” it was a rhetorical device. Despite the play on Winston Churchill’s words, I did not feel like I was in hell all the years of severe chronic migraine. This distinction may not seem like a big deal, but it’s…
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It’s Official: I’m No Longer in Migraine Hell
I stood in tree pose at yoga, my arms raised in a V above my head, and nearly cried tears of joy. “I am strong,” I thought. “I am alive.” No words suffice as I try to describe that moment. I keep typing and deleting,…