| So you think you have a migraine and you want | | | | feeling that most people complain about and don't |
| to know what the migraine symptoms are? As I | | | | know how to combat it. I immediately begin |
| migraine sufferer I can tell you that many people | | | | taking deep breaths and continue to breath deeply |
| that claim to have a migraine really just have a | | | | into my diaphragm. This has proven very |
| bad headache. If you were experiencing a | | | | effective for me and may help you also. |
| migraine like I experience them you will find | | | | While I am recovering from the nausea I find that |
| yourself curled up in a little ball lying in bed and | | | | I can no longer tolerate light of any sort. It feels |
| cursing any sounds or light. Now this may seem | | | | as though I am looking directly into the sun and I |
| extreme but if you really do have severe | | | | don't have sunglasses on. There is an intense |
| migraine symptoms you know what I am talking | | | | headache building up directly behind my eyes or |
| about. | | | | on one side of my head. This varies and is not |
| The migraine symptoms I experience are often | | | | the same each time. |
| associated with a severe throbbing in my temples | | | | The next migraine symptom I like to refer to as |
| that is preempted by a loss of acute vision. By | | | | the heavy rock syndrome. Imagine yourself at a |
| loss of acute vision I mean that my vision gets | | | | Metallica concert and sitting against one of the |
| blurry and objects seem to jump, which starts in | | | | 10-foot speakers that is blasting out at a decibel |
| my peripheral vision and usually with just one eye | | | | level that resembles a small earthquake. Each |
| at first. It eventually moves to both eyes and | | | | vibration, each minute sound wave coursing |
| encompasses my whole field of vision. This is | | | | through my body like nails on a blackboard. |
| what is called an aural migraine symptom and is | | | | Once I reach this stage of frenzied agony I have |
| easily recognized. At this point there is nothing to | | | | officially left the land of the living and enter the |
| do except close my eyes and begin praying to | | | | realm of nightmare. There is no relief in sight |
| the migraine god for relief. | | | | except to pray that I am capable of falling asleep. |
| As I begin to accept that for the next 6 to 8 | | | | It is through this level of unconsciousness that I |
| hours I will be incapacitated, I begin to wait for | | | | begin to recover from my migraine symptoms |
| the other migraine symptoms to manifest. As an | | | | only to awaken and start to begin, what I like to |
| experienced migraine sufferer I know exactly | | | | refer to as "migraine residuals". These will last for |
| what the next migraine symptoms are and when | | | | several days, depending on the intensity of my |
| they will take effect. The next symptom will be a | | | | migraine symptoms and include a headache, body |
| sudden lightheaded feeling, as if I were on an | | | | aches and bouts of dizziness. |
| airplane that has just lost altitude. When this first | | | | So you think you have migraine symptoms? If |
| happened I became very anxious because of the | | | | you do then I can totally sympathize with you. If |
| feeling of losing consciousness. I have since been | | | | you aren't experiencing what I have just |
| able to control this feeling and no longer | | | | described then consider yourself fortunate. What I |
| experience the anxiety associated with it. | | | | have learned to do is appreciate the times I don't |
| The next migraine symptom is nausea that is | | | | have a migraine. Gotta look on the bright side. |
| brought on by the lightheaded feeling. It is this | | | | |