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Stories that share the lived experience of chronic pain opens up the dark space that people living with it experience. This is a collection of stories of resilient action, thoughtful questioning and defiant resistance to the daily challenges that pain brings.

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Migraines

Melanie Concordia in Pain Talks

Mar 6, 2019

Choose Your Own Migraine Adventure

A game in which no choice will get you to where you want to go

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Brian Wangila in Pain Talks

Jun 24, 2015

Living with Chronic Migraines; My Personal Experience

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Melanie Concordia in Pain Talks

Dec 21, 2016

Turning Points

I was asked by the curator of “Pain Talks” what turning points led to my current understanding, perspective, and treatment of…

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Melanie Concordia in Pain Talks

Dec 14, 2016

The Hidden Truth of Migraine

When you have a migraine, you spend a lot of time by yourself

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Melanie Concordia in Pain Talks

Jan 26, 2015

I need more FAT!

A skeptic’s experience on a low-carb, ketogenic diet

Melanie Concordia in Pain Talks

Mar 16, 2014

An Upside to Chronic Pain

Living with migraine has taught me to continually reflect on and re-evaluate…

Catrina Groves in Pain Talks

Jun 20, 2016

My Fibro Story

For 6 years I struggled with chronic migraines. I went through all kinds of treatments. The abortives, the preventatives, MRI’s, CT…

Tina Glengary Cordes in Pain Talks

Jun 3, 2016

Another day…another migraine…

I’ll be fine for a long time. And then something starts the chain of events that keeps them orbiting my life for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes, I feel guilty, like I *should* be doing something different to prevent them from happening. Not that I can, they just happen.

Tina Glengary Cordes in Pain Talks

May 21, 2016

I have had a migraine for two days.

It will go away. It is going away. Slowly.

When I was little, I got migraines once a week or so. I got them when I was “worked up” in a good or bad way. My parents would give me aspirin before a friend’s birthday party because they knew I…

DayLeeFix in Pain Talks

May 13, 2016

I Know Why Pirates Say ARGH

I’ve been fighting a niggling migraine for like…well I’ve lost count now. It’s traveled around and around and taken all sorts of forms in my skull, a swirling storm whose vortex landed at will in any singular location, and last night I hit my wall.

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