When I was 9, I remember grabbing a handful of mini-M&M's from an information table at UCBerkley and we jumped in our rental van to start the family vacation ou

When I was 9, I remember grabbing a handful of mini-M&M's from an information table at UCBerkley and we jumped in our rental van to start the family vacation out to the Grand Canyon. About 15 minutes later I couldn't see due to an aura. That was the beginning of my migraines. In the spring of 2008, my dad go remarried to a Chocolatier - we don't talk a lot. It wasn't until I was 26 that I found out about triptans. I had endured years of avoiding chocolate and racing to find the darkest room possible any time I felt so much as a tinge of an aura. Today, any time we leave the house, I've got triptans and a bottle of Aleve ready to go. Thankfully I'm down to about 2 per year. This science is necessary and this article does a good job of highlighting how and why this topic has been glossed over for decades. The picture gets even more complicated now that I have kids. both female and one with a traumatic brain injury as a result of bacterial meningitis at birth. I can barely comprehend about how she interprets the world on a daily basis. If she has migraines on top of that, I will be so thankful there are a wider set of options today than ever before. Goadsby deserves to be celebrated!