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

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   <p>Aura!</p>

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   <p>Severe prolonged unbearable pain.</p>

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   <p>Dull pain on one side of my forehead! ;0(</p>

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   <p>light sensitivity!</p>

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   <p>Unrelenting pain</p>

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   <p>AURA (THAT IS MY ONE WORD BUT I CAN STAND THE HEAD ACHE LIGHT AND SOUND SENSITIVITY AND UPSET STOMACH. THE ONE TH.<br> 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.</p>

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   <p>smelling food cooking, light, noise, all these things.</p>

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   <p>the aura with the stroke-like symtoms! No ability to function there! It is the worst!</p>

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   <p>Phantom smells.</p>

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    <p>bright lights!</p>

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    <p>Aura....(visual spots, numbness & weakness on one side of body, temple stabbling pains).</p>

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    <p>excruciating head pain (nausea is a close second).</p>

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    <p>unrelenting pain......seems to control so much of my life.</p>

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    <p>Light sensitivity.</p>

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    <p>Eyes flashing</p>

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       <p>Be glad when you get back to doctor here...</p>

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       <p>Me too!</p>

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    <p>Pounding head, sensitivity to light and sounds, aura.</p>

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    <p>pain</p>

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    <p>SOUND</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>Bone-crunching anxiety</p>

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    <p>I'm not sure which is worse... The random smells or the sensitivity to sound.</p>

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    <p>Tinnitus...the constant ringing, humming, and buzzing all day drives me insane!</p>

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    <p>light or noise.</p>

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    <p>throbbing pain with light sensitivity!</p>

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    <p>phonophobia (sensitivity to sound). Some mornings, just eating cereal is too "loud."</p>

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       <p>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.</p>

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       <p>Of all the things I've lost, I miss my brain the most -</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>throbbing</p>

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    <p>dizzy spells</p>

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    <p>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!</p>

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    <p>nausea &#128577;</p>

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    <p>Pain!</p>

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    <p>Light sensitivity</p>

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       <p>i feel you. i have them too.</p>

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    <p>Fatigue and fuzzy brain!</p>

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    <p>Aphasia.</p>

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    dmaloney

    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>on my son's health..all of above.</p>

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    <p>feeling like I have an ice pick in my head.</p>

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       <p>...is like having my head in a vice!</p>

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       <p>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</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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       <p>Sounds like every woman I know.....</p>

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    <p>other then the pain, it would have to be unable to withstand sounds or smells or light.</p>

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    jessica77

    <p>its hard to answer this with one word but these are some of the top frustrating symptoms : excruciating head pain, nausea and/or vomiting.</p>

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    <p>lost time</p>

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    <p>its hard to answer this with one word but these are some of the top frustrating symptoms : excruciating head pain, nausea and/or vomiting.</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>Brainfog.</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>sound sensitivity.</p>

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       <p>vomiting</p>

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       <p>Don't ya just love when you comment on a blog and your comment gets published on FB - unknowingly!</p>

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    <p>photophobia.</p>

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    <p>Aphasia</p>

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    crochetlover11

    <p>Confusion. I hate the disorientation that goes along with the migraine aura.</p>

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    <p>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.</p>

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    <p>Aphasia</p>

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    <p>Helpless to help the one you love..frustration.</p>

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    <p>Scary and very depressing I feel helpless and crazy.</p>

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    <p>hemiperisis (aura) and indescribably anxiety.</p>

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    <p>pain</p>

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