I used to get horrible migraines from high school age on, my triggers were bright reflections and too much MSG (I kept track of what I ate and then tried to avoid anything that triggered) and generally I was useless for at least 4 hrs several times a month. If I was really quick a single Vicodin would at least make it manageable but generally I could keep nothing down. As I got older the headache itself got less and less and mostly what I get now is the aura (freaky lightshow in your eyes) and a single Tylenol is fine. But for 20 years it was not a fun experience at all. I know people with way more frequency to the point of being unable to do much at all.
One summer in college for a month I got a cluster headache every morning. 20 minutes of absolute agony that made migraines seem like a walk in the park. Thankfully those never came back.
I am glad research has been finding more ways to treat and even stop them.
> As I got older the headache itself got less and less and mostly what I get now is the aura (freaky lightshow in your eyes) and a single Tylenol is fine. But for 20 years it was not a fun experience at all. I know people with way more frequency to the point of being unable to do much at all.
I also started getting mine in high school (sophomore or junior year, I think?). Never had them frequently, just once or twice a year, which is plenty. I too have noticed a shift in their effect as I get older, away from my predictable blind-spots-followed-by-pain to a wider variety of visual effects and usually just feeling really weird and "off" for the rest of the day.
Oddest one so far involved fairly bad tunnel vision, which was new and I've not had again since, plus the usually just-off-center-of-vision blind spot I get, followed about a half hour later by needing to sleep. It wasn't the same feeling as being very tired, exactly, but I just needed to get in bed and go to sleep. No pain, just that. So weird.
One summer in college for a month I got a cluster headache every morning. 20 minutes of absolute agony that made migraines seem like a walk in the park. Thankfully those never came back.
I am glad research has been finding more ways to treat and even stop them.