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[morwen]

another migraine. i don't know what triggers these off. i haven't done anything out of the ordinary today or anything.

i was told some years ago by a headache doctor that they weren't "real" migraines, but just tension-related hedaches or something. and that if i relaxed they would go away. which kind of feels like i'm being blamed for them

but i don't see how. i get kpain, right now mainly behind and a little to the above of my left eye, along with strong light aversion and not liking nloise. they have been incapacitating and i hope they aren't again. if i get a bad one nothing i take seems to stop it.

i need to fix this. it was supposed to be fixed already.

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[ex-froodtheh193.livejournal.com]

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.