Migraine sufferers, you’re in good company. Migraine hasn’t prevented people from excelling in their fields. Famous migraineurs include Thomas Jefferson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Whoopi Goldberg, Elvis Presley, Lewis Carroll, Serena Williams, Ben Affleck, Sigmund Freud, Ulysses S. Grant, Julius Caesar, Terrell Davis and Virginia Woolf. Woolf wrote that English “has no words for the shiver and the headache… Let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.” Author Joan Didion also wrote about migraine in her 1968 essay “In Bed”: “The physiological error called migraine is, in brief, central to the given of my life… When I am in a migraine aura, I will drive through red lights, lose the house keys, spill whatever I am holding, lose the ability to focus my eyes or frame coherent sentences, and generally give the appearance of being on drugs, or drunk… That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.” From PBS "Need to Know"