Migraines can be absolutely debilitating, and many people with migraine live in fear of the next migraine attack. But when they try to talk about their symptoms, they may not be believed … or they might be told to take some ibuprofen and get over it. C. Michelle Lindley shows us what it’s like to live with migraine in her novel “The Nude.” She joins us with Mayo Clinic expert Dr. Rashmi Halker Singh to talk about migraine and its common misconceptions.

This episode was made possible by the generous support of Ken Stevens.

We talked with:

• C. Michelle Lindley’s work can be found in Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2024 and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and a BA in English and Art History from the University of California at Berkeley. “The Nude” is her first novel.
• Rashmi B. Halker Singh, M.D., is a neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She studies primary and secondary headache disorders, including migraine and chronic daily headache.

Purchase “The Nude.”

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Resources:

• Mayo Clinic on migraine 
• American Migraine Foundation
• Mayo Clinic Press migraine resources

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