This week on Talking Head Pain, Joe is joined by Beth Morton, a migraine patient, activist, and advocate who now runs #MigraineChat, a social media platform that creates a space for migraine patients to connect with others who live with migraine.

Listen along as Joe and Beth discuss self-advocacy and creating empowering spaces online. Beth also shares the most powerful and troublesome messages she has received since starting to run #MigraineChat.

Among the highlights in this episode:

01:07- Joe starts the episode by asking Beth to describe her worst migraine attack

03:58- Beth introduces the audience to the term ‘allodynia,’ a symptom of migraine that Beth has experienced

05:45- Beth walks Joe through her journey of becoming a migraine advocate

09:03- Joe asks Beth to share the special things that have come from hosting #MigraineChat on Twitter and various social media platforms

13:23- Joe and Beth talk about the good that can come from social media for migraine patients

15:05- Joe asks Beth to share the most inspiring and troublesome messages she’s received since starting to run #MigraineChat

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