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Originally Posted by Thor
Reading this thread reminds me how many people mistake bad headaches from actual migranes.
Migranes will destroy you, put you into a fetal position, make a pin drop sound like a jet engine, and if your lucky take only 1-2 days from your life.
I also have a friend of mine whom suffers cluster headaches, which causes a very high suicide rate amongst sufferers.
But anyhow, migrane folks, includes loss of sight, extreme sensitivity to light, sound... Also usually causes extreme nausea and if not caught before it begins, is about the worst 3-8 hours of your life, where you actually wish you were dead.
Anyhow thats just my take, I hear people claim they have migranes all the time, when they have no clue what a real migrane is like.
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this is so true.
my friends once gave me the gears for not going to class once and they could not understand what a migraine entails. i think they made the common mistake of assuming that migraine and headache are synonyms. they're not. i was really ticked at them that day but couldn't really do anything but curl in a ball of hellish pain.
it's pretty hard to imagine though. i basically describe it as having no option but curling up under your covers for 5+ hours wishing you were dead and cringing at any sound. so of course my friends watched a movie in the other room and talked loudly throughout...
i remember the first migraine i got i was looking at the computer screen and all of a sudden i couldn't really read it anymore. my vision was swirling. i asked my dad and he sighed and told me to close my eyes. asked if i saw bright swirling dots and sure enough, i did. he basically told me to brace for it, that in 20 mins i'd be knocked flat. i didn't really totally believe him and went back to computering...sure enough though it didn't taken long before i was enjoying my first migraine. oddly enough, i get them but my identical twin brother does not.
also got one at the doctor's office after being stressed and running about then finally calming down. he said that happens often because you're blood vessels tighten then open up rapidly(or the other way around, i can't really remember, i had a migraine, remember?)
i got one once on a job site doing physical labour in the summer and my boss said he could tell there was something obviously wrong with me as my face was pure white. the guy was a complete dbag but at least in that regard he had a rare moment of clarity and sent me home.
^^also jolinar, bang on. i really don't get them that often but when I do it is a living hell. my dad gets them more often. when he was a kid apparently they brought him, puking, to his knees.