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Now there’s a great prompt to help you think about ways to change your priorities at midlife. I’ve decided the most important message I would like my life to express is: Never give up on yourself. I have been so tempted at times to give up on myself and others in my life.

I received Botox injections for migraine prevention about a week and a half ago.The procedure went well. Some of the shots hurt a lot more than others, but as soon as the needle was removed, the pain was gone. I probably would have thought it hurt more if I was just doing it for vanity.

If you use Zomig to treat your migraines, you might want to consider signing up for a coupon worth up to $35 that can be used six times at your pharmacy. Zomig Living with Migraine Voucher Program My only caveat is to make sure you answer the questions according to your comfort level with allowing access to your prescription records.

I recently came across an interesting article on My Migraine Connection about why damaged brains have to work harder than other brains. It's well worth a read. Imaging Shows Why Injured Brains 'Work Harder' You might care about this news because other studies have shown that migraines can cause damage to the brains of sufferers.

The process of therapy is always fascinating and somehow mystical and magical to me. I went in to my session today feeling really low, guilty, withdrawn, angry at myself for allowing the depression to sink into me again, and for doing things that I know in my logical mind affect my mood.

READING this week’s OK! is to venture into the A to Z of Celebrity Diseases. Victoria Beckham would like OK! readers to know: “I HATE LOOKING AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR.” For such reasons does Her Poshness appear in magazines and thereby gets to see herself in glossy print.

It’s that time again, where we all scramble through our blog archives to see if we have anything to submit for the monthly migraine and headache blog carnival. You have until midnight Friday, October 10 (EST) to get a submission link in to Diana Lee over at Somebody Heal Me, or to use the blog carnival submission form.

The September Pain Blog Carnival on the theme of New Beginnings is up at the How to Cope with Pain blog. Check it out when you have a chance. September Pain Blog Carnival Technorati Tags: blogs, pain blog carnival, pain, blog carnival, depression, migraines, chronic illness, health, somebody heal me Subscribe to the Somebody Heal Me feed: Subscribe in a reader or subscribe by e-mail.

A recent research study asserts that children who are overweight have more frequent and intense migraines than average weight kids. Migraines More Frequent, Intensive Among Overweight Children In reviewing the information underlying this conclusion, I noticed that the study participants were patients of seven different pediatric headache clinics.

Some medications taken for migraine prevention such as Depakote, Elavil and Pamelor have a tendency to cause weight gain. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers have established what many of us knew from our own experiences: preventative Topamax (topamirate) does not.