"Lacy’s #AbdominalMigraine attacks stopped in college, but her #migraine journey wasn’t over. As is often the case with abdominal migraine, for Lacy, it transformed into #vestibular migraine and migraine without aura.": buff.ly/YRNtq9l
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#ChronicPain #disabled
"Lacy’s #AbdominalMigraine attacks stopped in college, but her #migraine journey wasn’t over. As is often the case with abdominal migraine, for Lacy, it transformed into #vestibular migraine and migraine without aura.": buff.ly/AYfUXui
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#ChronicPain #spoonie
"Lacy’s #AbdominalMigraine attacks stopped in college, but her #migraine journey wasn’t over. As is often the case with abdominal migraine, for Lacy, it transformed into #vestibular migraine and migraine without aura.": buff.ly/zmbWNG2
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#ChronicPain #spoonie
Managing migraine in children can be challenging due to difficulties in diagnosis, limited treatment options approved for kids, and their unique triggers and symptoms. #healthykids #abdominalmigraine
Find out more here: https://www.migraine.org.au/kids_with_migraine
"Up to 70% of #children with #AbdominalMigraine go on to develop migraine with #HeadPain later in life..Maddy’s journey with migraine began at..4..she eventually outgrew them, but by 13 she was suffering from chronic #migraine.": buff.ly/LUHPyAu
#ChronicIllness
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"The ... hypothesis is that people who experience #AbdominalMigraine have overly sensitive nervous systems — specifically the primary sensory + central spinal neurons... Researchers think that certain genetic, psychosocial + environmental factors may make someone vulnerable to this hypersensitivity"
"My body is a machine that turns thin air into a migraine"
For real 💨😭🤪
#RareDiseases:
#HemiplegicMigraine
Migraine With Brainstem Aura
#AbdominalMigraine
#OcularMigraine (founder of TZA gets these)
#VestibularMigraine
#ThunderclapHeadaches
#OccipitalNeuralgia (founder of TZA gets these)
And there's more.
#headaches #migraines #chronicillness #chronicpain
Never had I heard of #abdominalmigraine. Let’s build awareness.
"Up to 70% of #children with #AbdominalMigraine go on to develop migraine with #HeadPain later in life..Maddy’s journey with migraine began at..4..she eventually outgrew them, but by 13 she was #suffering from chronic #migraine.": buff.ly/AT5rNJh
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" #AbdominalMigraine is a type of #migraine that mostly affects #children, showing up as #StomachPain instead of the usual #HeadPain we think of with migraine. Diagnosing abdominal migraine in children can be difficult & stressful for the whole #family.": buff.ly/QYrbR6t
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"Nikki’s experience is common because #AbdominalMigraine in #children is frequently #misdiagnosed, largely because it doesn’t involve the typical #HeadPain associated with #migraine ..kids [also] struggle to describe their symptoms.": buff.ly/1v5v9cJ
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