I have experienced a headache but I have never experienced a migraine thankfully!
What distinguishes between the two?
One way to distinguish a headache from a migraine is that a headache is usually located to just pain in the head, while a migraine is pain in the head including a whole body experience. For example, migraines are often accompanied by nausea, dizziness, shaking, confusion, sensitivity to light, weird vision and more. Another way to tell is that often migraines typically favor one side of the head. I often have pain centered on one of my eyes, usually the right one.
I never thought that I got migraines. However, I had several instances where I lost my vision on one side and then found out it was an occular migraine. Most times when I get this I have no pain. However, sometimes I get nausea when it happens. However, I do sometimes get headaches where I am very light sensitive and kind of sick at my stomach. I didn't think it was a migraine. After reading this article below I now know that I have also had "language migraines" but didn't know what they were. I was definitely afraid that people would think I was nuts or had alzheimer's or something. Stress is huge trigger for me so trying to find a new job is very scary as I tend to have this language problem when I am in a stressful situation like a job interview. For some reason I have had several occular migraines recently. I haven't figured out the triggers yet.
http://www.blog.migrainepal.com/blog/2015/8/6/migraine-with-aura-symptoms-triggers-treatment
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Tammie
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