Migraine sufferers - which is the worst thing about migraines?

[skygazer]

Poll question: Migraine sufferers - which is the worst thing about migraines?

Poll result (21 votes)
The pre-migraine aura	(2 votes, 10%)	Vote
The pain	(9 votes, 43%)	Vote
The nausea	(2 votes, 10%)	Vote
The light sensitivity	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
The sensitivity to sound	(1 votes, 5%)	Vote
The effects of the damned migraine meds	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Other	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
All of the above	(5 votes, 24%)	Vote
Just the fact that I get them	(2 votes, 10%)	Vote

[skygazer]

1. My own vote - just the fact that I get them

The aura sucked - weird visual crap nearly making me blind.

Started to get nauseous so I knew I'd have to take a pill.

Now I feel all light-headed and hungover but no headache, thank goodness!

I can never decide which is worst.

[Kali]

2. I don't get them very often and no insurance so I've never had an official diagnosis

or tried any meds but what I hate other than all of it is the whole day being wasted, either in pain or in bed.

[skygazer]

6. I'm just getting out of bed since I posted this

I haven't done anything, still feel like crap and today is the last day of my vacation!

[nuxvomica]

3. I had to go with the aura

The second time I took sumatripton to treat a migraine, the aura lasted way too long. I was afraid I might just go insane and prayed for the headache to come. I can sleep with the headache but it's impossible to do anything with the aura but suffer it.

[azmouse]

4. I'm so glad I don't get migraines as often as I used to.

I get maybe one or two a year. Not sure why they've almost disappeared but I'm more than thankful.
I would have such pain that I really wanted to repeatedly hit my head against the wall. Anything to make the pain stop and as strange as it sounds when I was in the middle of a migraine it felt like that might help.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Haven't had a migraine in years, thank goodness, but when I did

have one, I just felt like I wanted to die.

[dana_b]

7. I said all of the above but

I also hate the facial and arm numbness. The aura causes a blindness, then I can't use my left arm or the left side of my face. The headache is excruciating and then there's the nausea/vomiting. Migraines are completely dibilitating. The first time i had one my family thought that i was having a stroke (at age 27).

[skygazer]

9. I was about the same age

I was home alone with my small kids and the aura kicked in. I had no idea what it was and by the time I realized I had to call for help, I could not see to find the number of a doctor or hospital. I called my sister by feeling for the numbers on the phone and she called my doctor who called me.

It was terrifying and it still is scary - I hate that they call migraines "headaches." It's like calling a stroke a dizzy spell.

[femmocrat]

8. The kind of pain that makes you want to cut your head off.

I don't get the aura, but nothing relieves that stabbing pain.

I take Imitrex at the first sign of a headache coming on. I have been taking it since 1994. Before then, it was just lie there and suffer.