Please tell me your migraine experiences

[anotherday4]

From how you know, when they start what happens and how you feel after.... thanks in advance been having a horrible week !
Does anyone get back pain ?

I rarely get them and normally triggered by food with msg that I had not expected. Strangely I find vomiting relieved them. I do not make myself sick but the migraine makes me sick.

I take Naramig for mine and they have been life changing. Previously I would have 48 hours of excruciating pain and constant vomiting. This week has been a bad week for me as usually I get one or two a month, but I have had three in a week,. With the Naramig I take them at the first sign, and they prevent the full horror developing and stop the vomiting completely.

I have heard that the weather affects migraine sufferers. Two of my sons and one of my Grandsons also suffer and all though we don’t live together our migraines do seem to coincide.

Stiff neck and upper back. Then gradual onset of right sided head pain and nausea. Usually brought on by tiredness, missing a meal or too much sleep funnily enough. Nothing works really apart from three soluble aspirin and then half a can of full sugar coke. Around seven times out of ten this will see off the migraine before it gets properly established. Also once established if I do the three aspirin and half a can of coke just before bed there's a good chance it will have gone from 10/10 pain to 3/10 pain when I wake up and then gradually dissipate over the next few hours.

Smells set me off. Some air fresheners, incense, candles, cleaning products etc.
Mostly though I will wake up with one and a very stiff neck. I take Migraleve, lie in a dark room with a cold flannel on my head and it will ease after a couple of hours. Though I still feel 'fuzzy' for the rest of the day.

Usually triggered if I’ve had alcohol or by the crap lights at work. I yawn a lot before one comes on and then get an awful throbbing pain right above my eyebrow that goes down to my temple. Always just on one side. Once it’s there’s I can’t do anything to get rid of it, I just have to wait for it to go.
I often feel knackered afterwards

Imigran nasal spray changed my life.
On prescription only but you can get a card from GP to buy otc in an emergency...
Suffered for over 30 years but since using the spray I can actually function...

A lot of your symptoms sound like mine, I start of with a stiff neck and back pain feeling exhausted and headache behind my eye.... I'm never sick with them I have been in the past but now I just feel it and really groggy !
They are bloody awful things and for days after I still feel off

They can really vary quite wildly for me.

Sometimes the first sign is excessive yawning, other times it might be blind spots. If I wake up with one I usually am nauseous with it, and like PP said, it can alleviate it slightly if I am actually sick. The wretching though is horrific because of how much my head pounds with it. I also get the stiff neck at times, pounding pain behind one eye and in the same side on the temple.

Not eating or sleeping well can set me off. If I can take painkillers and have a nap it can help. Mine don't feel frequent enough to have seen a doctor, but I sometimes think I should when I have a bout of them. Then they go away for months and I don't do anything about it.

I don’t get a headache as such but I get migraine aura. First sign is things looking wrong and then I have fuzzy lights in front of my eyes. Numbness in my fingertips that spreads up my wrists to my elbows and sometimes my nose and top lip and tongue go numb too. I also get asphasia - I’m unable to speak coherently or read. Can you imagine what it’s like to be a good reader and then being unable to read?! It’s such an odd feeling. Thankfully these symptoms don’t tend to last longer than half an hour but they are horrible when they are here. I get a bit of a headache after but not migraine pain thankfully.

I get them 3/4 times a year.
Things look a bit 'off'. I feel a little unbalanced and am sensitive to light. Then comes the blindspot and fuzziness.
I'm then treated to the zigzag flashing lights.
I find it scary and worry each time that I'm having a stroke despite it happening the last few years and getting no other physical symptoms (that I've noticed)apart from anxiety symptoms because I'm so panicked.
It lasts about half an hour and usually leaves a dull headache that can last a couple of days.

I had migraines on a weekly basis from my early twenties but they stopped completely when I had my hysterectomy in my mid forties. They were triggered by hormones not food

Not sure what trigger mine but my first symptom is white lights in front of my eyes like I’ve looked at the sun. They get worse until I can only see a tiny area in my peripheral vision, everything in front of me is covered by bright white flashing lights. This usually lasts about 30 minutes and then gradually reduces as the headache starts. I then have a few hours of feeling like my brain is swelling and going to explode out of my eyes/ears which I can only completely get rid of by sleeping. My migraines just suddenly started in my early 20s and seem to come on out of nowhere.

I get a migraine in the week before I'm due on, my eyes start with blind spots then the pounding head starts. I take imigran but it's hit and miss as to whether it's going to work. Also flickering lights, strangely I'm fine at parties and things were there may be flashing lights but if I go in a shop and one of the light bulbs is flickering it can start me off in minutes.