More than Just a Headache: Dealing with Migraines

Guest Bio: Lisa Jacobson

Lisa Jacobson is a chronic migraine sufferer who has had over 9,000 migraines over the last 28 years. As an accomplished entrepreneur, she wanted to use her expert business skills to help solve a social issue.

In 2014, when her migraines were at their worst, she founded TheDailyMigraine.com as that passion project; a place to give a voice to people with migraine through help, hope, healing and humor. With an estimated 300,000 followers, The Daily Migraine is the largest group of migraine sufferers anywhere in the world.

Because migraine still continues to have the stigma of being “just a headache,” the funding for research is appalling low. Under 500 doctors in the U.S. have sought to get credentialed in the field. With The Daily Migraine, Lisa aims to change all of that by educating and motivating people with migraines to help make the change as a group and ultimately use their support, money and votes to find a cure.

Lisa is currently in migraine remission. Her highly engaging Facebook Live sessions on various migraine topics typically attract over 15,000 viewers, and she has become a sought-after patient advocate and speaker on the national stage in the field of migraine. She is on the board of The American Migraine Foundation, and volunteers her time to work with biotech companies, the FDA and other groups, as well as small migraine research and support groups all over the world, unflaggingly working to reduce migraine stigma, raise funding, and most of all, create hope in people who have all but given up.