I got relatively bad migraines as a teenager, until I figured out they were pretty much entirely related to coffee drinking. Total blurring of my peripheral vision was the first symptom, then the pressure in my skull, then the nausea, with possible fun puking times, then the light sensitivity, then once the pain had gone, the tiredness for a good day or so. I do not miss those migraines, I never found a medication that helped. But, then, it was only three or four times a year, and they never lasted more than twelve hours or so, so I can't really complain.

I had a migraine about two years ago, but I didn't even realise it was a migraine because it was so different to what I'd had as a teenager - it was just a pounding pain on one side of my head, that went sort of wavey when I moved, and it lasted for three days or so. Weird.

OMG, I can barely touch the affected section of my head when I'm having a migraine. I know Betsy is the same way. I can't imagine pressing for relief. It sounds like anathema.

rth it. I tried weaning myself off Topamax last year, and my migraine frequency shot up from once every few months to once a week or more.

Heh. I'm cautiously optimistic about having weaned off topomax. But am taking several herbal type things--magnesium, riboflavin, feverfew, and coq10. And so far so good.

Mine involved sensitivity to light and vomiting, if they were bad, or just nausea or not wanting food, if mild.

I've been working on Hollaback Israel all day (almost there, dammit), when I saw this: [link]

Well, at the very least, all mallards. I love the one in the back.

OMG, I can barely touch the affected section of my head when I'm having a migraine. I know Betsy is the same way. I can't imagine pressing for relief. It sounds like anathema.

I can't have my hair in a ponytail when I have a migraine, but pressing on my cheekbone is okay. (Which, again, is why I thought they were sinus -- I mean, the cheekbone area is what hurts with sinus problems. TV commercials tell us so!)

It is hard to find head-on photos of ducks but so far every one is wearing a dog mask (although the teal I found looked more like a coyote). Why, when I google "types of ducks" do I get an image of a naked man washing an elephant?

Why, when I google "types of ducks" do I get an image of a naked man washing an elephant?

My guess: because he is an odd duck?

Perhaps it's an obscure verb definition of the word 'duck'.

Yeah, I haven`t gotten migraines since my Boeing coding days. The worst one there thankfully happened during one of my long hour days and I was able to huddle in the darkness in my shared office a good three hours before anyone else came in. I get the occasional dehydration headache out here but whatever was triggering me back there hasn`t followed me.