NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – For much of her life, Anne-Marie Theriot balanced dance classes and competitions with persistent pain and exhaustion.
“I’d always get sick. I’d have flu symptoms or strep or sore throat, things like that, but it would never show up as strep or flu or any real disease,” Theriot said. “When I was around 10 years old, just constantly having splitting migraines where I would lose my vision and go blurry. So I went to see a neurologist, and I was diagnosed with chronic migraines.”
The New Orleans native said frequent illnesses caused her to miss significant time in school, though she graduated from Mount Carmel Academy in 2025. A few weeks into her freshman year at the University of Mississippi, she said her symptoms worsened…