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[solan_t]

So.. now I am a migraine snob. This morning a co-worker mentioned something like 'and now I have this migraine headache' but showed no signs of it slowing him down - he didn't seem debilitated at all. And I wondered to myself if he even knows what a migraine IS. I know some people are supposed to get migraines without any other attendant

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[clevermanka]

Ugh. Yes. People misuse the word migraine all the time. It pisses me off, too. Solidarity.

[lapis_lazuli615]

I get headaches. I know I get headaches because they *don't* incapacitate me. If you're not incapacitated, it's just a headache. And people that call headaches "migraines" are just assholes.

My 2 cents.

[kd0r]

Kerri

Sorry, I didn't realize I wasn't logged in. The previous post regarding visual migraines was from me.
David

[mijan]

For what it's worth, my migraines run a full spectrum of severity. I can tell if they're migraine-type headaches based on the associated symptoms, but NOT all of them are debilitating. For a long time, before I was on indomethacin as a prophylactic, I learned to function with almost constant migraine symptoms for weeks at a time. I would only slow down when it would "spike" and turn into an acute problem where I'd feel like knives were stabbing through my skull. That's when I'd take the sumitriptan. Still, I could get visual disturbances and sound sensitivity with only mild pain sometimes. Still a migraine, but not debilitating.

But yeah, I think a lot of people say they have migraines when they don't.

[rhia474]

I get headaches. My husband gets the migraines. If he catches it early, or if I spot that little vein on the side of his temple and tells him it's there, he knows to take the migraine pill, stuff himself full of food, quit the computer, lie down with a hot washcloth on his face and it will go away bwefore it develops into a full-blown whimpery-hugging the porcelain-while dryheaving-with-closed eyes-and-breathing-hurts migraine for eight to sixteen hours. Mine are just make me scrunch up my face, be unpleasant and wear sunglasses inside--those are headaches. I am a wuss--not sure how I'd deal with actual migraines. My sympathies.