I've had horribly painful light sensitive headaches placed behind my eyes.
And utterly incapacitating migraines.
Migraines are almost utterly untreatable, with strong drugs being really only any use for speeding recovering.
Really bad headaches are of course terrible and incapacitating, but having had both I can appreciate why a headache doctor distinguishes. (I certainly do).
I would love to have neither.
My migraines are triggered by a sudden drop in stress/increase in stress or general change in mood. (My first migraine being on a birthday as a child), mine are short-lived (I believe) at around 4 hours, when they then become an extremely painful light sensitive headache... but soooo much nicer than the migraine... for about the same amount of time.
One particular aspect of migraines I utterly hate, is that fact it also incapacitates me the following day, I end up in what I guess would be called a disassociated state (common in depressives I believe) for pretty much the whole day.
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Date: 2005-03-09 03:14 am (UTC)And utterly incapacitating migraines.
Migraines are almost utterly untreatable, with strong drugs being really only any use for speeding recovering.
Really bad headaches are of course terrible and incapacitating, but having had both I can appreciate why a headache doctor distinguishes. (I certainly do).
I would love to have neither.
My migraines are triggered by a sudden drop in stress/increase in stress or general change in mood. (My first migraine being on a birthday as a child), mine are short-lived (I believe) at around 4 hours, when they then become an extremely painful light sensitive headache... but soooo much nicer than the migraine... for about the same amount of time.
One particular aspect of migraines I utterly hate, is that fact it also incapacitates me the following day, I end up in what I guess would be called a disassociated state (common in depressives I believe) for pretty much the whole day.