As a patient advocate and a person living with Chronic Migraine for over a decade, I was lucky to talk with Kristin about her experience with the disease as part of AbbVie’s Center Stage with Chronic Migraine Program, including how BOTOX(R) (onabotulinumtoxinA) for Chronic Migraine has helped her continue to shine on and off stage. Read on to learn more about Kristin’s experience with her first migraine attack, how migraine has impacted her work, and what treatments have worked for her.

If you've been on social media recently, you may have seen the rise of green light therapy for pain relief. While it may seem new in the migraine world, the effects of green light therapy are well-documented.

It's been a while since I've written a blog here. In the past year, I wrote a thesis that got high honors, graduated college, moved to a new city and started a full-time job, all while navigating my life with migraine disease.

In June of 2018, I took my first dose of Aimovig, one of the new CGRP medications. I livestreamed on facebook about taking my first dose, posted about how excited I was to try it and then haven't talked about it since.

There's a state that migraineurs know that's an in-between of being functional and non-functional, where you're alive, but not completely there.