“In a word, my most frustrating migraine symptom is ______.”

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September 17, 2011

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September 17, 2011
Aura!
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September 17, 2011
Severe prolonged unbearable pain.
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September 17, 2011
Dull pain on one side of my forehead! ;0(
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September 17, 2011
light sensitivity!
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September 17, 2011
Unrelenting pain
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September 17, 2011
AURA (THAT IS MY ONE WORD BUT I CAN STAND THE HEAD ACHE LIGHT AND SOUND SENSITIVITY AND UPSET STOMACH. THE ONE TH. AT BOTHERS ME MOST IS FLASHING LIGHTS AND ZIGZAGING LINES AND BEING HALF BLIND. YOU CAN SEE A WORD AND ONLY SEE HALF OF IT. WHEN I WAS 16 AND HAD MY FIRST AURA MIGRAINE I THAOGHT I WAS DIEING BECAUSE OF THE FLASHES OF LIGHTS.
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September 17, 2011
smelling food cooking, light, noise, all these things.
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September 17, 2011
the aura with the stroke-like symtoms! No ability to function there! It is the worst!
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September 17, 2011
Phantom smells.
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September 17, 2011
bright lights!
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September 17, 2011
Aura....(visual spots, numbness & weakness on one side of body, temple stabbling pains).
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September 17, 2011
excruciating head pain (nausea is a close second).
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September 17, 2011
unrelenting pain......seems to control so much of my life.
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September 17, 2011
Light sensitivity.
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September 17, 2011
Eyes flashing
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 September 18, 2011
 Be glad when you get back to doctor here...
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 September 18, 2011
 Me too!
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September 17, 2011
Pounding head, sensitivity to light and sounds, aura.
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September 17, 2011
pain
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September 17, 2011
SOUND
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September 17, 2011
Not being able to form words or thoughts. Numbness on the right side of my face and body and pieces of vision missing more scary than frustrating.
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September 17, 2011
Bone-crunching anxiety
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September 17, 2011
I'm not sure which is worse... The random smells or the sensitivity to sound.
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September 17, 2011
Tinnitus...the constant ringing, humming, and buzzing all day drives me insane!
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September 17, 2011
light or noise.
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September 17, 2011
throbbing pain with light sensitivity!
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September 17, 2011
phonophobia (sensitivity to sound). Some mornings, just eating cereal is too "loud."
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 September 18, 2011
 iIhave two: the unrelenting pain and the inablity to be able to concentrate due to the pain. With other types of pain, often one is able to push beyond the pain and still be able to function. Not so with Migraine.
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 September 18, 2011
 Of all the things I've lost, I miss my brain the most -
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September 17, 2011
all of the usual awful pains and unpleasantness, but most of all, the downtime, time lost with each migraine, days lost, isolation, I barely have a life, getting these 3 or 4 times a week and because I awake with them in process I seldom can abort them. No treatment for prevention works for me either, my body doesn't tolerate them and/or I can't take them do to siezures, glaucoma, etc..Yeah, Isolation, non-productivity....Migraines are a Thief.
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September 17, 2011
The fact that I become a recluse and I can't be myself because I am irritable and super sensitive to lights, sounds, smells, and motion.
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September 17, 2011
throbbing
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September 18, 2011
dizzy spells
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September 18, 2011
Recurrence! I could handle the pain, the nausea, the aphasia, the loss of coordination, the restricted diet, and social stigmas that go with migraine disorder if it were just once. But when it keeps happening, that is the most frustrating of all!
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September 18, 2011
nausea 🙁
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September 18, 2011
Pain!
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September 18, 2011
Light sensitivity
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 September 18, 2011
 i feel you. i have them too.
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September 18, 2011
Fatigue and fuzzy brain!
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September 18, 2011
Aphasia.
dmaloney
September 18, 2011
My 31 yr. son is suffering with a continual dibilitating migraine that is now 9 months long with no relief in sight. Local neurologist says she knows of no surgical proceedure that will help. His only med. assis. is thru PA state short term disability and GOD only knows how long that will help..Cleveland Clinic will not see him because of ins. even tho they tested him when he was young for same. Headache came his first winter after moving back to PA from living in southern (warmer climates) states for 10 yrs. We are feeling desperate and alone.
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September 18, 2011
on my son's health..all of above.
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September 19, 2011
feeling like I have an ice pick in my head.
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 September 19, 2011
 ...is like having my head in a vice!
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 September 20, 2011
 I usually get a "change of season" headache. It can last for 21 days. I take Tylonel Sinus or Advid Sinus,..and it takes care of it. I leave the medicine next to my bed with a glass of water,..got to catch it early. If i let the headache brew,..it takes longer to go away. I hope yours doesnt last too long.....they are awful
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September 19, 2011
When my brain won't connect to what I see, hear, etc. I guess you could sort of say lack of concentration, but that not exactly it.
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 September 19, 2011
 Sounds like every woman I know.....
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September 19, 2011
other then the pain, it would have to be unable to withstand sounds or smells or light.
jessica77
September 20, 2011
its hard to answer this with one word but these are some of the top frustrating symptoms : excruciating head pain, nausea and/or vomiting.
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September 20, 2011
lost time
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September 20, 2011
its hard to answer this with one word but these are some of the top frustrating symptoms : excruciating head pain, nausea and/or vomiting.
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September 21, 2011
There is not "a" word that I can pinpoint that is the most frustrating! It is all frustrating. But I guess the pain factor is first. The miserable all over body pain is second. Followed in order by inability to interact with family, fuzzy thinking, nausea, shakes, numbness/tingling, vision, and days of yuck afterwards.
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September 22, 2011
Brainfog.
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September 22, 2011
I don't get alot of pain, but I get the visual and sensory aura, which scares me to death. First the visual, that passes in 15 minutes, then my arm and fingers, then my tongue and then I find it difficult to speak or read words for about 15 minutes. I am worried that others will think I am having a stroke and worried that I will get one as they have found a connection.l.
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September 22, 2011
Kathleen, I agree...Aphasia is most frightening. So scared of that happening that I it is stopping me from leading as good a life as I could.
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September 22, 2011
sound sensitivity.
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 September 23, 2011
 vomiting
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 September 23, 2011
 Don't ya just love when you comment on a blog and your comment gets published on FB - unknowingly!
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September 22, 2011
photophobia.
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September 22, 2011
Aphasia
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September 23, 2011
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crochetlover11
September 24, 2011
Confusion. I hate the disorientation that goes along with the migraine aura.
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September 24, 2011
Ever since a migraine was triggered by headlights, I'm now ducking and dodging lights when I drive or am a passenger. I'm going to ask my opthamologist if I can add Blue Blocker to my regular glasses.
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September 25, 2011
Aphasia
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September 25, 2011
Helpless to help the one you love..frustration.
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September 27, 2011
Scary and very depressing I feel helpless and crazy.
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September 28, 2011
hemiperisis (aura) and indescribably anxiety.
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September 29, 2011
pain

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