Edmund and Daniel Messina

Edmund and Daniel Messina, Life and Migraine, 2005 (see here)

Life and Migraine

By Edmund and Daniel Messina

The documentary Life and Migraine is about the lives of 13 people with a myriad of dramatic and engaging stories to tell. They relate their frustrations, disappointments and triumphs in dealing with this misunderstood and often misdiagnosed disorder. The stories these people tell are striking not only in their differences, but also in their surprising similarities. In addition to the interviews, Life and Migraine looks into the life of a fictional woman who experiences the difficulties of those who have severe headaches. The fictional story is interwoven throughout the documentary and provides a framework from which to present the interviews. As they reflect on their years of seeking relief and understanding, many important realizations are made on-screen as they begin to piece together their narrative. One hopes that hearing their stories will encourage understanding and empathy from others while empowering headache patients to demand the correct treatment. [more]

Edmund and Daniel Messina, Still from Life and Migraine, 2005. © 2005 Life and Migraine LLC

"Thank you for your kind communication... We are colleagues. I am a neurologist in private practice, in Lansing Michigan, who has been running a headache clinic for decades (www.michiganheadache.com) and we also maintain an interactive video site for migraine patients at (www.headachecentral.net). Cephalalgia was kind enough to include our website in an article written a few years ago about English language patient advocacy sites (Peroutka, 2001). For the past 20 years, I have been developing artificial intelligence programs for patient history taking and patient education, combining it with my filmmaking background. I am, incidentally, also a migraine sufferer."

(Ed Messina MD, Email to Klaus Podoll, October 31, 2005)

DVD Life and Migraine, 2005 (see here

References

Cosentino L. Local doctor blends his two passions in 'Migraine'. City Pulse, Vol. 5, issue ??, October 12, 2005.
Peroutka SJ. Analysis of Internet sites for headache. Cephalalgia 2001; 21: 20-24.

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