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[gothwalk]

Hi, I'm your new headache. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. This is just above your left eye. Feel the stabbing pain? No, there's nothing on the outside, you can't rub me away. This is in your right temple. Look, I can make your eye twitch! Back to the bit above the left eye now. Isn't this fun? Quick stab over the right ear in case you get desensitised. Another stab over the left eye, leaving little lights flashing, a brief burst of nausea, and there, we're all done. Thirty seconds, that wasn't so bad now, was it?

Wtf was all that about? Less than half a minute of severe pain, some nausea, and poof! all better again. No warning, and no apparent reason.

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[shiftercat.livejournal.com]

It took me a while to learn to recognize the signs of an oncoming migraine, since mine are blessedly rare, and only started when I was out of my teens.

Bearing in mind that migraines are different for everyone:

Mine begin as a nagging headache in the morning, and get worse from there. The most definite sign is a sort of visual hallucination of grey or black circles creeping inwards from the edges of my vision. It isn't long after this that I start wanting to do nothing but lie down in a darkened room and moan. Thankfully, mine only last a few hours.