So Much More than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature

12/12/2025

This captures a lot of it!

Invisible does not mean that it does not exist.
We suffer in silence, but our pain is real !
Courage to all migraine sufferers. ❤️‍🩹

11/22/2025

It’s that time of year again! If you are new to the page, please consider ordering a copy of “So Much More than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature” for yourself or a loved one who suffers from migraine disease. Order from Amazon (least expensive at the moment), your local independent bookstores (I highly recommend), Barnes and Noble, or the publisher at Kent State University Press.

If you want to know more or have questions, feel free to email me at koshea1947@gmail.com

11/21/2025

We sufferers know this…spread the word to others

11/14/2025

So funny (and true). Ha!

11/12/2025

This is the first article I’ve written for psychologytoday.com since the day of my accident, December 17,2024.

General Anesthesia Can Play Havoc With a Migraine
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/so-much-more-than-a-headache/202511/general-anesthesia-can-play-havoc-with-a-migraine?eml

Personal Perspective: Have you tried to get assistance with a migraine attack while in the hospital for a completely different reason?

11/08/2025

Important to share with all…

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2615250592200443/?fs=e&fs=e

11/08/2025

Don’t we all know this to be so true!

Living with migraine is like living in a body that doesn’t always play by the rules.
Some days you wake up ready to take on the world.
Other days, the world feels too loud, too bright, too heavy to move through.

You plan your meals, your schedule, your sleep and still, migraine finds its way in.
It’s the constant mental checklist: Did I drink enough water? Should I cancel plans? Is that neck pain a trigger or just tension?

You learn to keep showing up anyway, not because it’s easy, but because you’ve learned how strong you really are. 💜

💬 What’s one thing you wish people understood about living with migraine?

10/28/2025

Well, dealing with the threat of migraine for three days-lots of my usual warning signs but afraid to take meds, as I don’t want to run out. You all know the story…

Check out more stories, poems, and essays about the complicated disease that is migraine. Each is by an esteemed writer, many of you may know.

09/27/2025

Because no, migraine is not just a headache! Stay strong everyone, take care of yourself. 🫂❤️‍🩹

09/23/2025

How about these crazy weather changes affecting our migraines? How do you cope with these conditions, since we have no control over them being a trigger?

Check out “So Much More than a Headache: Understanding Migraines to read a lot of literature-stories, poems, and essays about every day people like you and me suffering from this trigger.

09/05/2025

It's "Things I Wish I Knew About Migraine" Thursday!

The migraine brain works differently all the time – Even when you’re not having an attack, your brain is still processing things differently.

Research has proven the migraine brain works differently all the time, not just during attacks. We don’t know yet whether it is entirely a result of the different genes, or because of regular attacks changing the way the brain works, but function MRI studies have found the ions travel through a migraine brain faster, and that migraine brains have more short cuts in the neural pathways.

Lots of people with migraine talk faster than those without migraine, and some of us can learn faster, adapt faster, and are generally more resilient. Some with migraine with aura will notice they always have a heightened sense or ability, such as a stronger sense of smell or hearing, or maybe they have great attention to detail, or some other thing they can do better and faster than most.

We look forward to more research in this area so we can learn more about what is different (and good!) about having a migraine brain. 🧠
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4412887/

08/16/2025

Isn’t this the truth?

Misunderstood. That’s how 9 out of 10 people with migraine feel when they try to explain their experience.

Migraine is more than just a headache — it’s the second most disabling disease in the world, according to the WHO. It’s a neurological condition, and it’s time we treat it like one.