AIBU to want to slay people who claim they have a migraine when it's just a sore head?

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Even more irritating than those who have a cold and claim it's a touch of 'flu (my MIL). As if you could get a touch of 'flu!

But those who say 'oh, I've got a migraine' when they blatantly haven't. I want to say to them oh, is your sight gone? Has your stomach closed? Are you being sick or having the runs? Is the pain bad enough to warrant a doctor's visit to give you a shot of effing MORPHINE?

No?

Then it's not a migraine, fool.

And relax.

YANBU

YANBU.

My old boss used to call in sick with 'migraines'. To add a touch of pure class to the phone call in, she'd put on a hoarse, sick voice. No, you've got a migraine. It does't affect your voice box, love. [hhmm]

YANBU to object to people inappropriately exaggerating their headache to migraine status - but not all migraines work like yours, some don't even involve head pain, amazingly (but you get the ziggy lines and eye disturbance, the sickness etc.) It's a combination of symptoms - not everyone gets all of them.

Yanbu, I have had migraines since I was about 11 years old, I think they are connected to my periods but there's no clear pattern even a decade later. However I always had a tough time convincing doctors because other than the pain, an aversion to light, noise and movement there were no other symptoms. Then I got pregnant and did not have a single migraine throughout the pregnancy. After ds was born they came back with a vengeance. They now affect my sight (it's like looking through a cracked mirror for me, which makes me seriously dizzy) and make me sick. I think I may have to get pregnant again to stop them

My migraines make me sound hoarse Slinking . Because the sound of my own voice is too loud to bear. :)

YANBU, OP.

YANBU

I am a migraine sufferer and I hate this too, not only does it show no understanding for how truly awful migraines are (the dreadful pain, sickness, nausea, inability to move etc) it also spreads wider the common misapprehension that migraines are 'just a headache' and you should be able to swallow a couple of Paracetamol and get on with the day.

Separately, can I thank you for your use of the word 'fool': made me laugh despite having been up far too early!

Yanbu. When I get a migraine I can't see properly, get numb and often cant speak or write. It really annoys me when dh calls his headaches migraines.

YANBU.

My DH gets migraines.

I get really severe headaches sometimes which are accompanied by some of the symptoms of migraines (eye disturbances, not being able to read words in front of me) but I do not get migraines.

He also has migraines on occasions that don't have a 'headache'.

YANBU I sometimes get nauseous with mine, vision problems and need sleep but don't need dr as have strong medication [imigran] off her for them. Worst one I had lasted 3 days was on holiday had no meds and practically had to beg pharmacist to give me the tablets. Have been suffering since 11 don't get them as much since my hysterectomy, more often than not now there stress induced.

Yanbu. I was only talking about this and the flu this week. My last migraine was quite scary. My vision went really quickly and my hands, mouth and nose went numb. Head paint wasn't too serious though but had a migraine hang over the next day.

YANBU, I had one migraine (which turned out to be a brain bleed) and thought if this is what they are all about, I don't want another.
Flu drives me mental too. I've had it properly twice in my 47 years. DH is another who gets a touch of it. If you have flu you can't move let alone soldier on to work.

I hate it, one colleague seems to regularly get them confused with a HANGOVER
I have them generally triggered by stress, unfortunately most of meds I take for RA can't be mixed with the better migraine meds. Good news is that as my RA has become more controlled the have become less frequent and less severe than they were 10 yrs ago especially as I am better at recognising the symptoms, resting and quelling the nausea before I get too sick, which with experience I am better at and avoiding triggers if possible. If I get to violent vomiting I'm wiped out for much longer and it starts to effect my RA.

Magneto are you on the pill? My mate, after 10 years on a particular pill (can't remember which one) was told by her GP that they can bring on migraines in people who suffer from them. She switched pills and the migraines have stopped.

YANBU. My last migraine needed an ambulance

YANGU - I suffer from then and it winds me up no end when other people have "migraines" and carry on working. No - when I have a migraine I am in the foetal position crying, not rubbing my forehead.

I don't so much get the pain in the head as before, but even if it's a lesser one it's still unbearable. I dread the thought of going somewhere with the children in the car and getting one as I go either proper blind or blurred and lose all perspective - either way I can't drive!

Migraine hangover is so annoying too!

I was about 23 when I had my first one and I genuinely thought I had suffered a brain heamorhage and was going to die. When my mother saw me even she was shocked and she's an Irish nurse, I.e. not prone to sympathy towards her kids!

I get them now thanks to a change in sleep pattern - too little or too much so early motherhood was fun! Pregnancy also nipped mine in the bud.

Ph - did i just make up a new appreviation there? Hmm - now what can YANGU stand for? You are not going unnoticed? Apologies - YAMBU

And how can someone be on the computer with a migraine? Perhaps with the very beginnings of one, but impossible once it hits full force.

YANBU
I had one once, I really thought I was having some sort of brain haemorrhage (only mild head pain, but sick with freaky visual stuff and unable to stand the light) and was packing a bag for the hospital, until at the last minute it dawned on me what it was.

I really feel for those who suffer from them regularly.

So true!

I am lucky that I get the aura which means I can nip it in the bud somewhat, depending of course if hubs is around to take the rugrats. But minding children with migraine is one of the worse experiences of my life, and I only had to do it for 15 mins til himself got home after my phone call to him at work.

Is the aura the coloured lights [how i've always described it] if so had that since I was 11 told my parents sky was pink, they thought I was mad.

My Dad used to have them for 3 days at a time. In bed, darkened room, couldn't eat or move except to go to the loo (verrreeee slowlllleeee).
The thing that has almost removed them for him is taking blood pressure medication. He didn't have high blood pressure when he was young, but as he got older, he started to have high BP and the tablets have made a huge difference - don't quite know if there is a link, in that his BP might have gone up when a migraine came on - but he almost never gets them now, only when he's really stressed and/or tired.

I had my first migraine when I was pregnant with youngest child.
I thought I was dying.

YADNBU OP- a migraine is more than just a headache thats for sure!

I've only ever had flu once as well.

Thought I was dying then as well!!

YANBU but you can't say 'if you don't have such and such a symptom you don't have a migraine'. For example ('has your stomach closed?'), if I can eat something before the sickness starts then it often staves off the sickness. On the other hand, I never even had sickness with migraines until the kids were born damn kids .

For me, the aura is the worst bit. I could cope with the pain, the sickness, the numbness and the forgetting of words if that was not there.