mind-body connection

10
Aug
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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.
4 min read
20
Jul
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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.
7 min read
10
Jul
Black and white photo of blurry chair with headphones on the bac. Migraine Unread original.

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.
5 min read