I get them really bad too. My vision goes for about an hour (kaleidoscope vision) before the pain comes, and that is almost worse than the pain because i am so incompacitated, and then the pain comes. Usually the pain is bad but not horribly bad (with exceptions though, when i feel like i am going to die).
I find weather is a major trigger, along with glare (from the sun, off the snow especially - and sometimes computer monitors and tvs), msg, and artifical sweetner/aspartame.
But having gotten in pretty good shape now, and by watching my diet, i have reduced them about 90%. I used to get them in clusters, but averaging them out over a year, maybe 2-3 per month. Now i get maybe 0.5 (or less) per month.
I tried some big ones name drugs like Imitrex, but found they made me feel pretty funky - in Imitrex's case like the veins in my neck were going to explode. So now i try to get advil gel caps in my system ASAP and it works pretty well. AS long as i get the pain killer really early, my vision goes but then the pain never comes...
It is rare for men to get (true) migraines though, FAR more women get them. But too many people call other headache problems migraines - which can be a big problem in trying to prevent them. Unless a good doctor has diagnosed them as migraines they are not necessarily migraines....
Claeren.
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