After crying over the royal family, I knew I needed an antidepressant sooner than it would take to convince my insurance company to cover Viibryd. Since the dizziness had almost subsided and I didn’t want to wait to get a prescription for yet another drug, I tried increasing…
“Can I use a regular TENS unit instead of Cefaly?” I’ve been asked this questions so many times that I know others are curious and haven’t asked. I can’t give you a direct yes or no, but here’s what I’ve seen headache specialists say about it. Writing…
What’s your story? Send an email with your name, age, headache disorder, and a little bit about yourself to kerrie [at] thedailyheadache [dot] com. I’ll follow up with some questions for you to answer. Catie is a 20-year-old college student who has had chronic migraine…
For context: I wrote this on January 30, when I had a couple decent hours between migraine and constant dizziness. I just got to the edits this week, but still wanted to share it even though it is no longer timely. January has come to…
It’s interesting to think of what my doctor told me about the brain changing during a migraine attack in the context of chronic migraine. The longer I go without having a migraine every moment of every day, the less invasive my day-to-day symptoms are. Smells…