I’ve often wished that chronic migraine (CM) had a different name. I have lived with this diagnosis for six years and have found this description consistently misleading and confusing both for myself and others.
When most people hear the word “chronic,” the first thing that comes to mind is either a) something that has been going on for a long time or b) something that happens frequently or regularly.
Although these are both often true in the case of an individual living with chronic migraine, they are not the defining factors which lead to a chronic migraine diagnosis. Chronic migraine is defined by the American Migraine Association as: “headache occurring on 15 or more days per month for more than three months, which, on at least eight
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