eigh • ty - six migraine
/ ādē siks /
verb INFORMAL • NORTH AMERICAN
reject, discard, or cancel
“migraine made me 86 my plans”
Has migraine caused you to “86” your plans, life moments, and living the life you want to live?
Fight back and take control. Let’s work together to reject, discard, cancel, and 86 migraine. Watch and share the videos below to raise awareness for migraine disease.
Become a Migraine Patient Advocate
The 50-State Network is the grassroots patient advocacy arm of the nonprofit Global Healthy Living Foundation. The 50-State Network is working with people living with migraine to advocate for better policies to improve access to care. Lend your voice by joining the 50-State Network. You’ll be the first to know about ways you can help everyone living with migraine.
What You Don’t Always See About Migraine
Manly Man
Men get migraine too and “maning up” doesn’t make you strong it just prolongs your pain and suffering.
Blue Light
Feeling like a vampire? Learn how blue light can
trigger migraine.
What Migraine Feels Like
“My head felt like a butcher block.” We asked the Chronic Migraine Awareness nonprofit community what migraine feels like. Here’s what
they said.
The Community
We are all in this together. You have support
and resources that can help work toward 86ing
your migraine.
Are You 86ing Migraine?
Do you relate to these videos? Take back control and find out if you are 86ing migraine. Your answers will help inform how we better support people living with migraine.
Migraine Resources
The 5 Worst Things People Say Because of Migraine Myths
Signs Your Migraine Treatment Stopped Working — And What To Do If It Does
Migraine Home Remedies That Headache Specialists Approve
Migraine Caregiver Guidelines
Migraine Patient Guidelines
10 Things Migraine Advocates Wish The World Knew About Migraine
Migraine/Headache Organizations
Migraine Media
Alliance for Headache Advocacy
American Migraine Foundation
Association of Migraine Disorders
Chronic Migraine Awareness
Clusterbusters
Coalition For Headache And Migraine Patients
Danielle Byron Henry Foundation
MigraineDisease.org
MigraineWorldSummit.com
Miles for Migraine
National Headache Foundation
Society for Women's Health Research Migraine Network
The Headache And Migraine Policy Forum
US Pain Foundation
Thank you to Amgen/Novartis and Eli Lilly for supporting this important video series campaign.
The Global Healthy Living Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life for people living with chronic illnesses (such as arthritis, osteoporosis, migraine, psoriasis, and cardiovascular disease) by advocating for improved access to health care at the community, state, and federal levels, and amplifying education and awareness efforts within its social media framework. GHLF is also a staunch advocate for vaccines. The Global Healthy Living Foundation is the parent organization of CreakyJoints®, the digital arthritis community for millions of arthritis patients and caregivers worldwide who seek education, support, activism, and patient-centered research through ArthritisPower® (ArthritisPower.org), the first-ever patient-centered research registry for joint, bone, and inflammatory skin conditions, and hosts PainSpot (PainSpot.org), a digital risk assessment tool for musculoskeletal conditions and injuries. Visit www.GHLF.org for more information.
These videos contain images, flashing lights, and/or visual sequences that can be a migraine trigger for some. We balanced the need to powerfully portray migraine disease with the possibility that video mediums can be hard for some folks with migraine.