"Migraine attacks can cause significant pain for hours to days and can be so severe that the pain is disabling. Migraines are debilitating, and can cause anyone to not be able to function on any normal day. Unable to drive, walk, or speak without a stabbing, throbbing, or pounding feeling rushing through a section, or the whole brain.

Many times these pains can cause the person suffering to lose their job(s), do poorly with their education, and many times are unable to leave their bedside. Although 91% of people miss work due to chronic migraines, and 25% of all people that have migraines have them more than one time a week, there is still minimal funding and understanding of this illness.

I am one of the people that suffer from chronic migraines, and there are some things that all of us that suffer need you to know.

1. "Drink more water."

Sometimes this can only make things worse by giving us nausea and occasionally even vomiting.

2. "Just take some Advil."

Believe me, I've tried taking Advil, and I have built up a tolerance to it, so it will not work any more.

3. "You should get that checked out."

I know, and I have. I've been to a neurologist enough time in my short life that my neurologist knows my personal life. Yes, that is because we have to track when our migraines are, and what we have been doing all day to cause it.

4. "Why do you have so many medicines?"

Why don't you try living with the feeling of a knife driving through your eye socket to the base of your skull, over, and over, and over again? But really, we have preventatives (once a day), and beta blockers (when the migraine happens).

5. "Why don't you come out tonight, why did you miss work?"

Migraines can create light and sound sensitivity. This means that even wearing sunglasses is sometimes not enough to protect our brains from the sun. Sound sensitivity means that the sound of someone chewing or an air conditioner running can drive you crazy, and make your head pound so bad you think someone is stomping on it. This means not being able to drive, walk, or speak, as stated above.

Migraines remain a mystery to the medical world, and this leaves a lot of sufferers just trying to make things work with what they've got. I think I can speak for a majority of the people that have migraines when I say that I wish there was more funding in the world for this cause.

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