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Strong As A Mother: Melissa Piercey Fights For Better Care and More Compassion For Her Daughter
AMD knows moms are strong. Through a series of verbal and written interviews, Melissa Piercey shares her migraine story, showcasing why she is Strong As A...
To Exercise or Not to Exercise? The Migraine Paradox
To Exercise or Not to Exercise? The Migraine Paradox Few things are as confusing as the relationship between exercise and migraine. Migraine as defined by the...
Preventing Episodic Cluster Headaches with Emgality® or Psychedelics: What You Need to Know
Preventing Episodic Cluster Headaches with Emgality® or Psychedelics: What You Need to Know Preventive treatments for cluster headaches are often hit or miss. For decades, people...
Migraine and Covid-19: What We Know So Far
Migraine and Covid-19: What We Know So Far The Covid-19 pandemic has taken more than two million lives worldwide, sickened over 100 million,¹ and turned billions of...
Hormones, Menstrual Migraine & Treatment Protocols
Hormones, Menstrual Migraine & Treatment Protocols The link between hormones and migraine disease is undeniably strong. The neurological disorder predominantly affects women of childbearing age, particularly...
Migraine Treatment Developments On the Horizon in 2021
Migraine Treatment Developments On the Horizon in 2021 People with migraine disease have seen more positive developments in the last three years than we’ve seen in...
AMD Annual Report & Message from the President
We know that migraine is a different type of neurological disease. It is one where success is not necessarily measured by finding a cure or decreasing...
AMD’s Year in Review: Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021
In spite of COVID-19 and its impact on many of our programs, we have continued to focus our efforts on a variety of initiatives and...
Meet Alexes: An Inspiring Woman Living With Hemiplegic Migraine
Meet Alexes My name is Alexes and I live with migraine disease. Every day I learn something new about myself and thankfully my short-term memory fails...
Remembering Melissa: A Young Life Stolen By Migraine
A Disease Passed Down I myself have always had migraines as did my mom and my maternal grandma. Back then they were just bad headaches where...
Meet Lindsay and Skylar – A Mother-Daughter Duo Living with Migraine
Lindsay’s Lifelong History with Migraine Lindsay had chronic daily migraine from her earliest memory (around the age of 3 or 4) until she was 30. She...
Meet Don – A Man Whose Career Was Cut Short By Migraine
I am the proud father of a happy and wonderful daughter. I was born in Arizona and grew up in San Diego and Albuquerque. After graduate...