do you think migraine is just a headache
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More than âjust a headacheâ Migraine is a complex condition with a wide variety of symptoms. For many people the main feature is a painful headache. Other symptoms include disturbed vision, sensitivity to light, sound and smells, feeling sick and vomiting. Migraine attacks can be very frightening and may result in you having to lie still for several hours.
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Do I Have A Migraine, Or Is This A Stroke? A migraine is a severe headache that can induce nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light, sounds, and smells. In up to 30 percent of all incidents, sufferers experience an aura, or warning, consisting of visual disturbances, numbness, and speech difficulties leading up to their migraine.
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Migraines & headaches guide Silent migraines are also known as migraine without headache, when a person has all the symptoms of a migraine, but not the headache. These migraine symptoms can include the aura warning signs before the migraine comes on. To understand silent migraine, it helps to know the four distinct phases of migraines. Premonitory phase or prodrome. This phase warns that a migraine is coming. Symptoms include changes in your mental state, such as irritability or confusion, and physical signs such as thirst or diarrhoea.
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18 Signs You're Having a Migraine Speech difficulties can be another sign that a migraine is on its way. A lot of people with migraines will feel like they're blithering, Dr. Messina says. If you are experiencing speech problems for the first time, contact a doctor to make sure the problems are not related to a more serious issue, such as a stroke.
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Migraine Headaches - Symptoms The most common symptom of a migraine headache is a throbbing pain on one side of your head . You also may have other symptoms before, during, and after a migraine. Different people have different symptoms.
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- Not all headaches represent migraines, and migraine is not the only condition that can cause severe and debilitating headaches. For example, cluster headaches are very severe headaches that affect one side of the head in a recurrent manner (occurring in a cluster over time).
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Whatâs the Difference Between Migraines and Headaches? When there is pressure or pain in your head, it can be difficult to tell whether you are experiencing a typical headache or a migraine. Recognizing a migraine headache from a traditional headache, and vice versa, is important. It can mean faster relief through better treatments.
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Migraines The head pain of classic migraines may occur on one side of your head or on both sides. 1  Common migraines don’t start with an aura. These types of migraines are also called “migraines without aura.” Common migraines may start more slowly than classic migraines, last longer and interfere more with daily activities. The pain of common migraines may be on only one side of your head. Most people who have migraines have common migraines (they don’t have an aura). What does a migraine feel like? The pain of a migraine headache can be intense. It can get in the way of your daily activities. Migraines aren’t the same for all people. Possible symptoms of migraines are listed in the box below. You may have a “premonition” several hours to a day before your headache starts. Premonitions are feelings you get that can signal a migraine is coming. These feelings can include intense energy, fatigue, food cravings, thirst, and mood changes.
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- Introduction. Migraines are extremely painful, recurring headaches that are sometimes accompanied by other symptoms, such as visual disturbances, for example, seeing an aura or nausea. There are 2 types of migraine -- migraine with aura, formerly called common migraines, and migraine without aura, formerly called classic migraines. If you have a migraine with aura, you may see things, such as stars, or zigzag lines, or have a temporary blind spot about 30 minutes before the headache starts.
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Everything You Want to Know About Migraine Migraines are intense, sometimes debilitating headaches. The most common types of migraine are those with aura (classical migraines) and those without aura (common migraines). Migraines can begin in childhood or may not occur until early adulthood. According to the Mayo Clinic, women are three times more likely than men to have migraines.
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Difference Between Migraine and Headache A migraine attack is usually centered on one side of your head. The pain usually starts as a dull throb or a tightening and then intensifies into a concentrated and severe pain. If it is a migraine attack, you will always be sensitive to light and noise when you are getting the attack. Physical work will make it worse.
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Sinus Migraine Doctors even mistake migraine symptoms for sinus headache. Because only half of people who suffer from migraines have actually been diagnosed by a doctor, migraine sufferers often mistakenly label their migraine attacks as sinus headaches.
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- Many people confuse a sinus headache with a migraine because pain and pressure in the sinuses, nasal congestion, and watery eyes often occur with migraine. To find out if your headache is sinus or migraine, ask yourself these questions: In addition to my sinus symptoms, do I have: 1  Moderate-to-severe headache.
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Whenever i get hot i get the worst headache ever i mean Despite your belief that these are not migraines-I do truely believe they are a true migraine. Most migraine patients have more than one type of migraine-and if you get HOT-you would become relatively dehydrated which by itself can cause headaches-and makes a migraine feel worse.ost migraine patients have more than one type of migraine-and if you get HOT-you would become relatively dehydrated which by itself can cause headaches-and makes a migraine feel worse.
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Slideshow: A Visual Guide to Migraine Headaches A migraine is a headache with throbbing pain that is usually worse on one side of the head. The pain is often severe enough to hamper daily activities and may last from four hours to three days if untreated.
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When a headache really is a brain tumor STORY HIGHLIGHTS.  1 Ninety-nine percent of the time, a headache isn't cancer, a source says. 2  In one case, a headache that was thought to be the flu bug, turned out to be a tumor. 3  Sometimes when you fear a brain tumor is cancer, you're not just being paranoid.
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MigrainesâWhat Causes Them, and How You Can Best Address Them One long-held theory was that a migraine is caused by vascular changes in your brain, from initial blood vessel constriction and a drop in blood flow, followed by dilation and stretching of blood vessels, which activates pain-signaling neurons.
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Silent migraine What is Silent Migraine? Silent migraine is one name for a type of migraine attack that doesn't include a headache. It is also known as acephalgic migraine, sans-migraine, migraine equivalent, eye migraine, visual migraine, ocular migraine, painless migraine or simply migraine aura without headache. Common symptoms. How bad it is.
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Migraine headache Migraine is a type of really bad headache often felt on one side of the head. Some children get migraines every now and then, while others get them more than once a week. The headaches can range from being mild to very severe. It's not exactly clear what causes migraines, but they are likely to happen when blood vessels of the head and neck spasm (shake) or become narrow (constrict).
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Glossary Most people with migraine headache feel the pain in the temples or behind one eye or ear, although any part of the head can be involved. Besides pain, migraine also can cause nausea and vomiting and sensitivity to light and sound. Some people also may see spots or flashing lights or have a temporary loss of vision. Migraine can occur any time of the day, though it often starts in the morning. The pain can last a few hours or up to one or two days.
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Migraine or Sinus Headache? More than 4 out of 5 people who think they have a sinus headache actually have a migraine. It's such a widespread misconception, says Peter Goadsby, MD, who heads the University of California, San Francisco's headache program.
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What's Happening During a Migraine Migraines used to be blamed on blood vessels in the brain dilating, or opening up. The newer thinking is that the expansion of blood vessels is the result of some other event, not the cause. The cause may in part be the excitation of a nerve responsible for sensation in the face.
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Is It Just a Bad Headache â or Something Worse? Ninety-five percent of the time, even an agonizing headache is not serious and doesn't mean you have a brain tumor, says Brian M. Grosberg, M.D., associate professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and codirector of its famed Montefiore Headache Center, in the Bronx, N.Y.
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Tension Headaches In this case, you might confuse your tension headache with a migraine, which is a type of headache that causes throbbing pain on one or both sides of the head. However, tension headaches do not cause all the symptoms of migraines, such as nausea and vomiting.
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18 Signs You're Having a Migraine How to tell you're having a migraine. by Karen Pallarito. Nearly 30 million people in the United States have migraines, and three times as many women as men have them. Migraines are pulsating headaches, often on one side of the head. Physical activity may intensify the pain, but symptoms can vary from person to person and from one attack to the next.