Headache and Migraines Forum - Migraine Information!

I was just looking up random information about aura migraines since I've gotten 4 in my life (all in college). Aside from being absolutely horrendous and leaving me in pain for hours (I realise I'm lucky they're that "short"!) the auras are just plain annoying.

Any time now I think I'm seeing an aura I get very nervous and preemptively nauseous (pain makes my stomach upset). It doesn't happen often, and I actually haven't had a migraine in about a year I think.

So anyway, I read this website, and it's exactly what my auras are like... It felt good to know people are researching it. It was cool to learn what caused them.

ht tp://headaches.about.com/od/migrainediseas 1/a/aura_ache.htm

I also get weak and dizzy during my migraines and have to stay laying down. I'll get hotflashes too sometimes, assosciated with the nausea and my body's reaction to it. The nausea is caused by the pain, so it's a cascading effect.

The most annoying things about my auras is that they start out as blind spots that slowly turns into a bigger and brighter "zig-zag" spot. You can't make that spot go away, even if you close your eyes. All you want is for those zigs to go away because you know what's coming next. It's a terrible feeling, because you know it's unstoppable. Your body is going to make you hurt, and you can't do anything.

Again, I'm fortunate as far as migraine sufferers go. I've only had 4 (so I can't "technically" be diagnosed) and they only lasted about 5-7 hours. Two of them happened close enough to bed time that I just slept through them.

The first one, I didn't even know what was happening to me. I got the aura beforehand, and was confused, and so went to dinner with my friends. At dinner, a mild headache that had started coming on got worse, and I couldn't even stomach any food. I took some aceteminophen from a friend, and we went back to the dorm so I could lay down since at that point I could barely walk. I took more asprin (turns out it was just slightly expired, by 8 years Razz

) and proceeded to hallunicnate for four hours.

I rolled around in pain sometimes. Other times I felt like my chest was frozen, and I was paralyzed. I forced myself to roll onto my side, and could breath again. I got hot, I got cold, I sweat and was nauseous. I thought someone came in and sat on the bed and talked to me, even though my friends said they never did. NOT a fun experience.

After about 5 hours I woke up, and the pain was gone. I still felt completely messed up, but at least I wasn't in pain. I was able to walk back to my own room and felt mostly fine the next day, with perhaps a bit of a leftover unsettled feeling.

I don't take asprin any more when I have migraines lol. I know it doesn't work, so I just lay down, cover my head, and sleep through it. They've only lasted a few hours each time so I know how it works.