Since a few others mentioned getting migraines & we haven't had a thread on it here yet...
thought we could talk about it - what helps for you?

what helps...
darkness
no annoying men (love him but can't tolerate anyone)
quiet
bed
cold on head and cold on face but nowhre else
axert 12.5mg as soon as I get the aura

my aura is the right eye (right side tos) I loose vision or see tunnel and can't read at all. I also get pressure behind the right eye as well as getting a facial twitching and eye muscle spasms so I know it pretty well now.......but after five years....lol

sleep!! hopefully!!!

Take care guys and looking forward to others answers

love and hugs,
Victoria

Can anyone tell me what exactly separates a migraine from a really really bad headache??? just curious..

sometimes the textbooks classify the difference between a migraine an aura. It is most often one sided and is thought to be created by a vascular spasm in the brain. You usually have an aversion to light and sound and usually nausea.

hope this helps
http://zomig.com/what/migraine.aspx?ce=set

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mig...120/DSECTION=3

hugs,
Victoria

Since my rib resection I get much fewer migraines, but still once in awhile the sharp pains up over the top of my head into my eyes, with other symptoms too

If I don't take an Imitrex 100 mg pretty quick it will progress to vomiting ( really hurts the chest)
The next day or 2 I'm really feel like I've been hit by a truck

My niece gets bad ones {no TOS} she gets nausea, tunnel vision, auras.

I had an optical migraine once at work- was seeing shooting sparks, stars, like fireworks and then things started spinning around and nausea after the visual sx stopped. I made it home but I was wiped out for the rest of the day. I did go to eye dr to get it checked - he was the one to dx was it was.

With mine I've always had the usual symptoms- nausea, vomiting, severe pain- but I've never had the aura with mine. Mine started when I was in the 3rd grade and at that time the pain was only in my head and eye(s) but when they started up again a few years ago, along the the worsening of the muscle spasms in my neck, I not only had the severe pain in my head, but also in my C-spine, at the same time (weird). It would feel like somebody was jabbing a hot icepick into my spine and the ha's I had when I was younger were NOTHING compared to these. We have a friend who has miagraines (according to his dr.) but doesn't have any pain with them - he just has blurry vision or loses alot of his vision. I've never heard of this but maybe some of you have.

and if I took Midrin as directed it usually never progressed into a full blown migraine. It started in the peripheral vision of the left eye, and I just couldn't see while they were there, bright flashing lights throughout my whole left eye field. My dr. at the time thought they were cyclical, I was just turning 50 when they started and they quit just a abrubtly about 5 yrs. later.

Red, so glad ya'll didn't get a hit in Houston with Dean. phoebe

Thanks, Phoebe- OMG , we were REALLY sweating that one....I really dread this time of year on the coast.

Hi,
I have heard of the only aura migraines but only so far with men.....curiouser and curiouser said Alice.......

love V