Does anyone feel like this after a migraine?

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I had a migraine last night, felt it coming on during the day, thought I’d managed to nip it in the bud but about 11pm it came with vengeance until about 5.30am (half an hour before I had to be up for work).

My migraines present as kaleidoscope vision, nausea/vomiting and a numb face. As long as I can be cool (lay on bathroom floor kind of thing) then those symptoms go away after 4/5hours.

I’m left with a headache, tired (although they often come at night so more a symptom of being up all night) and am ridiculously tearful…I want to spend the day after having a constant cry, a friend said by to me today at her house and I welled up. I’m so tearful.

This is not an unusual post migraine day for me but speaking to a friend today who has never had this symptom I’m wondering if it’s a bit weird and why I have it

No I don't think its unusual, migraines do strange and funny things to us. A bad cold can leave me fearful tearful sometimes so I'm not surprised the hell of a migraine leaves you feeling like this.

I hope you feel better soon

I am exhausted after a migraine, and just want to sleep. And woolly headed. Not tearful but I can totally imagine that being a symptom too. I fee completely washed out afterwards.

I do sometimes feel more tearful if it's been a bad one. Post-migraine I usually feel like I have a hangover.

I don't get tearful, but can feel very distant and alone afterwards. Migraines reduce my physical and mental coordination so I knock things over and I mix words up. I find it can take days to feel normal.

Tearful no, but everything else yes.

I just feel totally drained. Are you migraines linked with ovulation or period coming? That might be better explanation of the tears.

I do sometimes feel tearful afterwards but I also have clinical/severe depression.
One of my dd's also gets very tearful if she gets a migraine around her period.

I feel like I have a bad hangover and depressed for a day or two afterwards.

Yep, it's called a Postdrome. Also known as a migraine hangover.

Yes, for me the migraine hangover is worse than the actual migraine. I don’t get much of a headache, just the aura symptoms, but I can end up feeling wiped out for nearly a week.
I manage them by strictly avoiding my triggers (chocolate and flashing lights) and taking feverfew capsules the moment I feel something that might be an aura starting.

For me too, the hangover/postdrome can be worse than the migraine. I had one on sunday, the headache wasn't too bad, but the dizziness and nausea was horrible.
Yesterday I was weirdly dissociated, felt like i was floaty/lightheaded/away with the fairies etc
Today I'm just tired and wanted to cry this morning (not cyclical as I don't have one!) at work because I couldn't find the stuff I did yesterday - as I wasn't functioning yesterday and didn't put it away!

Not sad but quite dissociated and spaced out though I do wonder if that’s also a side effect of the medication I take (rizatriptan). Plus nausea, dizziness, lethargy. I always follow up the rizatriptan with some ondansetron which helps. Also I get a very strong craving for sweets, specifically sour gummy worms.

Thank you.

The migraine itself is pretty unpleasant, the pain isn’t more then I can stand (though is not pleasant!) but the nausea, dizziness and loss of proper vision is awful!

I don’t think they’re related to my cycle - I have severe pcos and don’t have a regular cycle so it’s hard to know. I’m currently 57 days late and no sign of it coming anytime soon!

I do actually get quite teary with a hangover!

This is my first migraine since last year and first since coming off anti depressants so I suddenly had a horrid feeling that it’s depression not a migraine hangover but I think it sounds like this is just how my body reacts to migraines!

I feel pretty wiped out in the postdrome. Not teary, but I am in the premonitory stage. Never click that that's why I cry at random things until the headache kicks in though!

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I don't get tearful, but can feel very distant and alone afterwards. Migraines reduce my physical and mental coordination so I knock things over and I mix words up. I find it can take days to feel normal.

Same for me.

And teary before and after.. though where one ends and another begins I have no idea sometimes

Hope you feel better soon OP

A migraine hangover is a good name for it.
I ache all over and am very clumsy after my head pain has gone away. It can last for hours. Sleep seems to be the best thing for it.

OP have you seen a GP? My migraines were like yours, but since being prescribed Naramig, which is a naratriptan, I still feel sick, but do not vomit, and I don't get the numb face or side of body any more. The tablet doesn't stop the migraine, but definitely relieves some of the symptoms and helps a little with the pain. Interestingly, I was given a different brand once by a pharmacist, and the new tablet didn't work at all. I now stick to Naramig, although not all pharmacies stock them.

I described my after migraine time as a bit like if you've fallen and grazed your knee badly. The next day it doesn't hurt anything like as much, but you're aware it's there and you know if you knock it, then it will start hurting again, possibly worse than before.

I feel like I have a hangover and crave salty food and stuff like curry. DH knows I'm getting better when I start looking for curry...

Yep, tearful, sensitive, before and after!

My migraines leave me feeling hungover literally like I've been in the lash all night.

Yes I feel like you describe after a migraine, really debilitating and exhausting to go through.

similar to a seizure feel washed out emotional thoroughly washed out

Your symptoms are not unusual, honestly.

I hope you are feeling better now.

Please see your GP - there's no need to suffer like that when there's a range of meds available which can shift a migraine pretty quickly. I'm prescribed sumatriptan and it gets rid of the headache within half an hour.