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Re:Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope ... by alabastervlog on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:35PM (#43096532)
I used to get typical migraines, starting around junior year of high school. One every 6-18 months, usually, for years. Visual auras for twenty or thirty minutes, then a few hours of bad headache.

Over the years the frequency has swung toward the longer end of that, and now the last three times I haven’t gotten the headache part at all, but other weird symptoms. One time, bad tunnel vision for a while and then feeling like I had to go to sleep immediately. Another, just a weird disconnected/disembodied feeling for a couple hours. The most recent, I got fairly bad aphasia for ten or fifteen minutes, which is the fist time anything like that’s happened to me. Not just trouble thinking of words, though that too, but knowing the word I wanted to say and having something else come out instead, no matter how many times I tried.

Migraines are weird.

Re:Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope ... by takomako on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @07:11AM (#43101194)
Have you tried a sumatriptan as soon as the aura starts? Works for me. YMMV.
Re:Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope ... by alabastervlog on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:48AM (#43103350)
I haven’t tried anything but excedrine migraine. If I still got a couple a year and they still gave me like 6 hours of killer headaches, I’d probably look into something like that, but the frequency’s been closer to every other year than twice a year and I don’t get much pain with them now, so I’ve not bothered.

Maybe I should, though, given the other comments in this thread about them causing brain lesions…