The Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy has created a petition urging Congressional hearings on the impact of headache and migraine disorders. The whole point of this particular petition is to make aware all of the facts about headache and migraine disorders and to bring it all out into the open. Facts like the very disabling effects of headaches and migraines, the stigma of headaches and migraines, inadequate treatment and how many or undertreated, and the extreme underfunding of research.
Please sign the petition, and when you do, read the comments left by people who have or are affected by headache and migraine disorders. They really do create a snapshot of how life is like for people to have to live with such debilitating chronic pain and how it feels to know that no matter how hard you try and advocate for yourself, you still may not be able to get the medical treatment deserving of your condition. I know that I have to fight for my care more times than not and that is very hard to do when you are in pain more days out of the month than you are not.
AHDA Petition for Congressional Hearings on Impact of Headache & Migraine Disorders
AHDA members will be presenting this petition on the Hill on March 27th. If you have already signed it, THANK YOU! If not, hopefully you feel compelled to do so by reading the comments left by petition signers and hopefully from reading headache and migraine blogs like this one. And please forward and share the petition with family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. This is more than extremely important for us to become a national priority. Think of other chronic conditions like diabetes not being treated like a real disease and people, even medical professionals, suggesting that you are making up your symptoms and when you go to the emergency room for care are treated like a "insulin seeker". This is what life with a headache or migraine disorder is like. So please sign the petition and help us put a light on our disease!
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