My Never-Ending Migraine

Finding effective treatments for migraines is its own headache

Lisa Levy
Elemental
Published in
6 min readJan 8, 2019

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I was somewhere between my midtown Manhattan office and the subway station on Broadway when I first noticed the pain. The left side of my head felt like it was hit by a mallet — not the kind you might use in croquet, but a wood-and-iron giant hammer Thor-type thing. The pain nearly knocked me off my feet. Suddenly…

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Lisa Levy
Elemental

Writer, editor, lover of basset hounds. Contributing editor at LitHub and Crimereads. New immigrant to Canada. Www.lisalevywrites.com