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1. My diagnosis is: Chronic Migraine
2. My migraine attack frequency is: last year, it was every day, this year about 1-2/week
3. I was diagnosed in: 4th grade (over 30 years ago) but the severity of them changed last year
4. My comorbid conditions include:
5. I take 2-8 medications/supplements each day for prevention and 3-5 medications/supplements to treat an acute attack
6. My first migraine attack was: 4th grade gym class
7. My most disabling migraine symptoms are: sensory overload, sight, sound, touch, pain
8. My strangest migraine symptoms are: mood swings
9. My biggest migraine triggers are: storms, lack of sleep
10. I know a migraine attack is coming on when: I become mean for no reason
11. The most frustrating part about having a migraine attack is: feeling helpless
12. During a migraine attack, I worry most about: disappointing people & my dogs
13. When I think about migraine between attacks, I think: why me
14. When I tell someone I have migraine, the response is usually: you don’t eat right, it must be something you are doing, I had a headache the other day
15. When someone tells me they have migraine, I think: I’m so glad I don’t
16. When I see commercials about migraine treatments, I think: too bad my insurance doesn’t cover it
17. My best coping tools are: my dogs
18. I find comfort in: my dogs
19. I get angry when people say: it’s you, you don’t listen to your doctors
20. I like it when people say: I know it’s not you
21. Something kind someone can do for me during a migraine attack is: understand
22. The best thing(s) a doctor has ever said to me about migraine is: we will fight this together
23. The hardest thing to accept about having migraine is: it can control my life
24. Migraine has taught me: that I do not have the family I thought I had
25. The quotation, motto, mantra, or scripture that gets me through an attack is: just need to sleep a little, get through the pain.
26. If I could go back to the early days of my diagnosis, I would tell myself: it will get better
27. The people who support me most are: my best friend and my service dog in training
28. The thing I most wish people understood about migraine is: it’s not just a headache, it effects the whole body
29. Migraine and Headache Awareness Month is important to me because: it’s not, every day is important to me, everyday that I can get out of bed
30. One more thing I’d like to say about life with migraine is: It SUCKS, but with the right doctor who doesn’t just throw meds at you, you can make it through the toughest storm.
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