11 Celebrities Who Deal With Excruciating Migraines

Many celebrities say they’ve handled migraines for almost all of their lives — and hope by opening up in regards to the situation, they’ll elevate consciousness and produce hope to people who additionally endure.

Learn on to listen to what these stars stated about their migraines…

Khloé Kardashian started experiencing migraines that left her “incapacitated in mattress” when she was only a preteen. On the time, Khloé says she didn’t actually perceive what was occurring and other people round her didn’t consider that it was something greater than a typical headache. It will be years earlier than she was capable of search assist when a household pal, who additionally suffered from migraines, inspired her to see a neurologist.

“I vividly bear in mind how I felt, however primarily I bear in mind how everybody informed me that I wasn’t feeling what I felt. Individuals would at all times say, ‘Oh, it’s only a headache,’” she informed Prevention. “That’s the stigma with migraines, that it’s only a headache. And being 12 years outdated, and at the moment nobody in my household skilled migraines, I used to be embarrassed to say after I was affected by one.”

Now, Khloé’s migraines are much less frequent and she or he is aware of the right way to higher handle her signs. She’s certain to maintain bodily lively and carefully displays her weight loss program. She’s additionally a spokesperson for Nurtec ODT, a migraine medicine.

Kristin Chenoweth remembers precisely the place she was when she had her first migraine. She was simply 25-years-old and rehearsing for a present in New York. The room, full of fluorescent lights, triggered her to start to expertise “kaleidoscope eyes” adopted by nausea and “a pounding headache.” She was identified 4 months later and though migraines have triggered her “to lose a while” in her life, she now is aware of the right way to higher handle them.

“[Doctors] informed me to keep away from sugar and caffeine,” she stated on the Migraine World Summit in 2019. “The previous two years, I actually have minimize approach, approach again in that division and I’ve observed a distinction. The dragon that I maintain chasing is sleep. I’m at all times in a unique time zone or on a airplane. None of these items are conducive to an individual who has a migraine. That’s been my largest problem, sleep.”

She continued, “Everyone has their very own perception, and I encourage and wish that. I do take pause and I say, ‘Expensive God, assist me get by way of this.’”

Serena Williams has struggled with “debilitating, throbbing ache” from periodic migraines since she was in her 20s. For years, she was compelled to play by way of the ache since others couldn’t perceive the invisible situation. Whereas she was capable of handle it for a few years, issues got here to a head in 2020 after they turned nearly each day occurrences.

“It’s all extremely anxious,” she informed Individuals of her migraines throughout the early days of the pandemic. “I used to be coping with loads of stress and unknown components and issues that I wasn’t used to, and so I believe that was contributing to my migraine assaults and making them extra frequent.”

Serena was lastly capable of search remedy and now makes use of Ubrelvy, a drug that may relieve ache and signs throughout a migraine assault. It’s been such a life-changer for her that she’s now a spokesperson for the pharmaceutical firm.

Lisa Kudrow has had an extended historical past with migraines, a situation she inherited from her father. As a toddler, she and her siblings have been stricken by migraine assaults and she or he says “a day of pleasure and consuming would at all times finish in a horrible headache.” Lisa’s father, Dr. Lee Kudrow, additionally suffered from migraines and finally opened the California Medical Clinic for Headache to assist others going by way of the identical factor.

Fortunately, Lisa’s migraines received extra rare as she received older and are now not a serious problem for her.

It took Whitney Cummings nearly her complete life to get her migraines beneath management. Till she was in her late 30s, she had merely accepted her frequent migraine assaults as part of life. However after talking with a neurologist, they have been capable of establish that her nervousness over getting migraines was really frightening them. The revelation was a “sport changer” and as soon as she started taking medicine to deal with that nervousness, her assaults subsided.

“I bear in mind being like, do individuals simply transfer by way of the world with no throbbing head?” she informed Individuals. “The absence of migraines felt like an opioid. That’s how wild it was.”

Now if she senses a migraine approaching, she’s prepared with a caffeine supply, cooling menthol gel and two medicine that tackle the ache.

Whitney Port admits she’s been getting migraines for so long as she will be able to bear in mind. By means of the years, they’ve gotten more and more worse, which she attributes to extra anxious issues coming into her life as she’s gotten older. Reflecting on her expertise, Whitney says they usually happen within the morning, taking away helpful time along with her son — however she has tried her finest to get them beneath management with coping mechanisms. For Whitney, she says Excedrin Migraine has been important to coping with the ache and is a “should have” in her life.

Jessie James Decker has suffered from extreme power complications since she was a teen. She now experiences two or three migraines a month and admits that it could actually get within the lifestyle. Whereas she has coping mechanisms, like important oils, neck stretches and a scorching bathtub, she’s typically not capable of handle herself totally on the street. Again in 2019, she had a meet and greet with followers after which a efficiency so she wasn’t capable of cease her migraine in its tracks. She ended up having to cease the live performance to take medicine.

“It was horrible. I needed to take it onstage. I had one in all my band members carry out a tune whereas I attempted to drag it collectively,” she recalled to Individuals. “Then I went again on and I performed by way of it. It was fairly horrid, however there’s instances like that, the place it simply comes on and there is nothing I can do.”

She later added, “[My doctor] stated that there are solely 4 p.c of individuals on the earth that get the extent of migraines that I get. She stated that there was nothing I might actually do besides bodily remedy.”

Whoopi Goldberg skilled migraines for 40 years, admitting that she used to need to “plow by way of” whereas working regardless of the unbelievable ache. It wasn’t till she spoke to Khloé Kardashian backstage at The View that she realized a drugs like Nurtec ODT might work. The interplay was a “game-changer” and she or he’s lastly been capable of finding aid.

“[My doctor] principally stated, ‘Pay attention, we will do that, as a result of God is aware of you’ve put loads of issues in your mouth making an attempt to make your head really feel higher. So certain.’ And a few month later, I began to get it,” Whoopi informed Migraine Once more. “It modified a complete bunch of issues for me. It modified the sport.”

Aly Raisman didn’t notice for a few years that she was affected by migraines. Since she at all times wore such a decent ponytail whereas coaching for gymnastics, Aly says she thought the ache and sensitivity she skilled was a hair headache — not a symptom of a migraine.

“For years I’ve been scuffling with nausea, fatigue, gentle sensitivity and neck ache. Once I was lastly identified, it was validating,” she informed Individuals. “I didn’t know why I used to be feeling that approach for thus lengthy. It’s irritating to not have the solutions. Data is energy, and having the ability to advocate for ourselves, having the ability to discover a neurologist to hearken to me — I’m very grateful for that.”

Starting in 2015, Danica Patrick started struggling migraine assaults following intense races. To assist her by way of the ache, she turned to Excedrin and finally turned a spokesperson for the model within the hopes of serving to others going by way of the identical factor.

“My collection of triggers appear to be after a race on Sunday nights by way of Tuesday, in order that they’re type of a few 48-hour window. They’re not essentially each weekend, however after they come on, they’re terrible,” she informed Individuals. “There’s loads of Tuesday mornings after I stand up and I really feel terrible, I really feel nauseous and I’m on the sofa all day. It’s an excellent alternative to make use of my expertise to assist individuals perceive how unhealthy they’re.”

Marcia Cross skilled her first migraine when she was simply 14-years-old and thought she might have been having a stroke. Since she was at college, she headed to the nurse’s workplace however might barely bear in mind her dwelling cellphone quantity to name her mother and father. As a teen, she says she spent a lot of her time mendacity in her bed room with the lights dimmed, hoping the excruciating ache in her head would subside.

By means of the years, Marcia has realized her migraine triggers like stress, lack of sleep, her menstrual cycle, and particular meals. She additionally found out a method to cope: a mix of stress administration, dietary modifications, and medicine to cease migraines when she feels them approaching.

“I nonetheless get migraines every so often,” she informed Mind&Life. “However I take my medicine as quickly as I really feel a headache approaching and I’m capable of handle them significantly better. I’m not afraid of them anymore. I really feel I’ve a deal with on it.”