This week on Talking Head Pain, Joe is joined by CarmenRose Fiallo, a migraine patient and advocate who documents her migraine journey on social media, showcasing the realities of living with a chronic disease.

Join Joe and CarmenRose as they discuss traumatic brain injuries, tips for injection days, and when to break up with your health care team 

Among the highlights in this episode:

01:10- Joe kicks off the episode by asking CarmenRose to walk us through her worst migraine attack

04:38- CarmenRose discusses how migraine has impacted her life

06:21- Joe talks to CarmenRose about having a traumatic brain injury and being diagnosed with migraine

09:48- Joe asks Dr. Peter McAllister about the connection between traumatic brain injury and migraine

11:33- Dr. McAllister tells Joe about how migraine caused by traumatic brain injuries is treated

13:59- CarmenRose shares why she started sharing her injection days on social media and gives tips to the audience about how to navigate injection day

19:34- CarmenRose tells Joe about how the people in the migraine community have helped her through her migraine journey

22:24- Joe and CarmenRose talk about the frustrations of navigating the health care system

24:12- Joe asks CarmenRose to share advice on how to move on from a health care team that is not treating you effectively

26:59- To end the episode, Joe asks CarmenRose to talk about how finding the right treatment has improved her life

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Joe Coe, Director, Education and Digital Strategy at GHLF: jcoe@ghlf.org

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