My story: Sarah, living with chronic migraines

[MUSIC PLAYING] On my good days, I'm fighting for them. And on my bad days, I know they're fighting for me. [MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm Sarah, and I am a migraine advocate. I had my first migraine attack when I was five years old. I wasn't officially diagnosed with migraine

until I was in my teens, and my attacks were becoming more and more frequent. When my chronic migraine has been at its worst,

I have experienced daily migraine attacks. I think it's difficult for some people to believe that I am living with daily chronic migraine,

because it's so debilitating. But as an invisible disease, it's easy to hide.

Living with migraine, I've gone through a lot of different doctors and medical teams. I have had doctors that have fired me.

I've had doctors that have not believed me. But when I found a doctor that did, it was a whole new world for me.

It changed my treatment and the way I was able to speak with her openly. I have a really good support system

in my husband and my family. I started my blog My Migraine Life when my son was about a year old.

I felt super isolated and alone at the time, although I knew many people that lived with migraine.

No one was talking about what it really looked like. As my advocacy grew and my blog grew, so did my community.

And my migraine community has changed everything for me. Having an online community shows me

that I'm not alone, shows me that other people care, and really gives me someone else to fight for. All of those different directions

that it takes me and empowers me, I am educated. So I can ask better questions.

Speaking out about living with chronic migraine is super important to me. The reason that I do is because of stigma.

People speak about it wrong. They look at it wrong. And they really ignore it. Chronic migraine looks like me.

It looks like your neighbor. It looks like your teacher and everyone in between. So the more I talk about it, I find the more others talk