Serving Two Masters: When Migraine and Menopause Run Your Life
Groundhog Day is my life now. Hot flashes, nausea, and hemiplegic migraine as the driver. Here's what it actually feels like to live inside the loop, and why I'm frozen on the decision to try HRT.
Migraine: My Uninvited Guest
The tiny migraine symptoms no one else notices, and how I move through an ordinary day anyway. A real-time read of my body, from the morning audit to a loud lunch and back again.
They Cut Into My Eardrum While I Was Awake. Nobody Ever Asked What That Did to My Brain.
Chronic ear infections. Three surgeries. A tympanic membrane cut open while I was conscious and screaming at 10 years old. Decades later I am asking the questions nobody ever thought to ask and the answers keep connecting back to migraine.
Before We Talk About Migraine, You Should Know Who I Am
I grew up believing in medicine. I still do. But my body has broken in ways that were not always obvious and never typical. I started connecting dots no one else could see. This is where I began.
The Morning Migraine Audit
Every morning begins the same way. Before coffee, before Lily, before anything else, the audit begins. A practiced, body-literate scan for the signals that tell me what kind of day it will be. This is what healing looks like from the inside.
