How do I know whether it's migraine?

Answer 1

Migraine is a painful neurological condition, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head. Absent serious head injuries, stroke, and tumors, the recurring severity of the pain indicates a vascular headache rather than a tension headache. Migraines are often accompanied by photophobia (hypersensitivity to light), phonophobia (hypersensitivity to sound) and nausea.

Answer 2

I've had migraines since I was 5 years old, and the following is what you'll hear from anywhere on the internet:

1. Pain usually behind the eye on one side of the head.
2. Accompanied by nausea
3. Sensitivity to light
4. Sensitivity to sound
5. Sensitivity to temperature, especially heat

Here's what the net won't always tell you, and it can identify a migraine off the bat. Check the webbed space in between your index finger and thumb. If one side feels puffy and the other feels flat, you're looking at a vascular pressure imbalance, and it's a migraine.

Also, for migraine sufferers, the pain never changes sides, and any other headache will usually trigger a migraine. Sinus problems, back tension, allergies, eye strain, dehydration and hormones can all set someone off who has the propensity.

Personally, I think all other kinds of headaches (or any body aches, including acute back pain) pale in comparison to the pain of a migraine. It's so bad, it's like being locked inside your mind with no room for anything but pain. It's hard to talk, your body temperature won't stay regulated, everything makes you jump, and all you want to do is curl up in a ball in a cold, dark room and go to sleep.

For some people, catching it early with Ibuprofen helps, for others prescription drugs help. When I was a kid, I had to sleep them off (and they gave me sleeping pills to do it!). Mine come predictably now, and I take Feverfew as a preventative. When I don't take it, they come back, so it's working well when I remember.

Hope that helps!~*~

Answer 3

A headache is just an annoying ache in your head. A migraine is very strong and hurts to hear any noise, light or movement. You will see sparkly (like glitter) in the sides of your eyes and feel nausea and most over the counter drugs will not work. Sometimes stress headaches and muscle headaches will feel like a migraine but it is just a headache. If you get them frequently you need to seek medical help. Taking to much of the over the counter drug you will eventually become immune to the effect they should have.

Answer 4

Headache which is halfsided and associated with nausea, giddiness and Photophobia could be migraine. consult on www.unanidoctors.com

Answer 5

When you start to bleed out of your nose and go blind.

Answer 6

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