My Experience of Migraines Reviews

As several other people have commented under this heading: non-migraine sufferers have a patronising tendency to dismiss migraine attacks as merely headaches- when they are in fact a seriously disabling medical condition: and one which has been the bane of my life for the last few years! Migraine attacks are caused by a massive increase ...  Read the complete review

The first migraine I ever had was quite frightening really. I was about 11 years old and sitting at my desk in school when suddenly I couldn't see my jotter properly. I could see the words when they were only in my peripheral vision, but when I looked directly at them there was nothing... no blackness or blur or anything, just nothing. Then the ...  Read the complete review

Well, I am writting my experiences of migraines here and hopefully it will make some sense to others. What is a migraine - Nobody actually knows what a migraine is and if you like you will lots of views on what is actually happening in your head at the time you are suffering from one. My doctor seems to go with ...  Read the complete review

The world is divided into two kinds of people; those who suffer from the agony of migraines and those who dismiss migraines as "just a bad head-ache!" This latter cateogory of people have obviously never suffered an attack as I can speak from experience that migraines are a bitter pill to swallow!! I am lucky in that I only ...  Read the complete review

I've suffered from Focal migraines since I was eight years of age which meant lots of time off school as nothing could control them. We ended up taking the caffiene free route so avoiding chocolate, cheese and many other foods which is really hard for a child and didn't really help. Focal migraines usually cause severe pain in one spot. ...  Read the complete review

Migraine just a headache? I wish!! I have suffered with migraines since a young child but especially for the last 10 years , they are a complete nightmare and can take over my life. Symptoms - for me one of the first signs of a migraine is me being hungry , well not just hungry I could seriously eat a horse! Then I get flashing ...  Read the complete review

No doubt this will be one of the most bizarre reviews you will come across in terms of my opinion on the subject but I can wholehearted lay say I am glad to be a migraine sufferer and will wear my badge with pride. I have always been a sufferer of headaches but to me that was all they really were at the time and not for one ...  Read the complete review

When I was sitting my A-levels I started to get cluster headaches (although I didn't know what they were then) - this was my first attack, About 6 months ago I got them again and after several visits to the doctors and weeks of worrying that I have a brain tumour (or something else as equally serious due to the pain I was experiencing) I learnt ...  Read the complete review

I have suffered from migraine for almost 20 years. I had my first attack when I was about 9, though of course at the time I didn’t know that it was a migraine. The thing I remember most about this first attack was I was sitting in my classroom at school when all of a sudden I could only read one letter at a time on the blackboard. This was ...  Read the complete review

I have suffered from hormonal migraines for five years and I have only just been prescribed suitable medication to deal with the problem. It seems to be a hereditary thing on my mum?s side of the family, although neither of my sisters suffers. I will dive straight in to the story without giving an overview of what migraine is as this has been ...  Read the complete review

I didn't realise I suffered from migraine until I was in my thirties. Strange, really, because they do run in my family somewhat. However I had never really understood what distinguished a migraine from other headaches, until another migraine-sufferer explained it to me. * * * * * * * * * * * What does a migraine feel like? * * ...  Read the complete review

I didn?t really think that I could suffer from migraines. My Mum always had headaches and was diagnosed with migraines but thank-fully I didn?t ever get serious headaches or migraines. However, for the last couple of months I have been coming down with really bad headaches, first I thought nothing of it. However, once the thud, thud ...  Read the complete review

Before I begin, I would like to be honest and point out that I do not actually suffer from migraines - my husband does. This category requires writers to have direct experience of a migraine. Well I do to an extent because an attack on a migraineur can be incredibly difficult and extremely upsetting for their families too. My ...  Read the complete review

Migraines run in my family, and suffer a lot from them. I also get really bad migraines, and sometimes they last for days. And for those who don't know what a migraine is, or has not yet experienced one, I will explain. Migraines cause throbbing nd often debilitating pain on one side of the head that can go on for days. In some, the ...  Read the complete review

Cluster Migraine is the worst of the lot. My clusters last for up to five weeks, and are pretty much resentless, I spend more time having an attack, than I do in serenity. Clusters are normal migraines, back to back for an unspecified amount of time. They are very common in women around mensturation periods. But is very rare in ...  Read the complete review

I'm stressed and tired. I haven't eaten properly for days yet I know that I should. I feel weak. Someone STOP THE WORLD - I WANT TO GET OFF! This could be the opening paragraph for so many "my experience of...." opinions. I could be writing about the loss of a loved on and the bereavement process. I could be writing on ...  Read the complete review

Like the good wine that can be a trigger for a lot of people who suffer from migraines, my condition improved with age! I first started getting migraines when I was about 9 or 10 years old, and in those days they were EVIL...approximately once a month, for about 3 days at a time, I had constant blinding headaches, vomited virtually ...  Read the complete review

Just about everyone gets headaches at some time or another. I’ve always been prone to them, and a few years ago started getting migraines. Since then I’ve tried several different drug treatments and lifestyle alterations, some of which have helped hugely and others which have had no effect whatsoever. Here’s my analysis of things ...  Read the complete review

How many people out there can truly say they are migraine sufferers? Have you lost 3 days at a time of your life stuck in a dark room, avoiding all noise, avoiding movement, unable to relax or get comfortable, feeling extremely nauseated (leading to regularly being physically sick), scared to open your eyes because your vision has ...  Read the complete review

OK. How do I make an opinion about migraines interesting? I’m not sure I can, not in an interesting/funny way but I can in an ‘oh, that IS interesting’ way. At least I hope I can {;0) My family is interesting (from a migraine point of view); myself, my brother and my mother all suffer from migraines to varying degrees ...  Read the complete review