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At the age of 17, I was diagnosed as a migraine sufferer.
This meant that after a few serious headaches in the previous 3 or 4 years, I finally had an explanation about what was happening to me, each time I was knocked off my feet for three days at a time.
I had been putting it down to after effects of too many late nights or as a result of drinking alcohol, which I am still not overly keen on today.

Mother nature stopped me in my tracks (as it so often does when the human body is neglected) with a migraine so bad, I honestly thought I was having a heart attack and frightened me so much, I immediately stopped making excuses for them and sought help.
After having pins and needles in my tongue (I kid you not!) for about half an hour, moving to my lips, the pins and needles stopped. Five minutes later the fingers in one hand started to get pins and needles and then went numb as the pins and needles moved their way up my left arm.
Right upto my shoulder they went, then the pain vanished.
About two minutes later, I started getting spots in my vision and then the worst feeling in the world for me, a weird vision, where I could only see a narrow "tunnel" right ahead, everything to either side of me could not be seen out of the corners of my eyes.
This lasted about 20 minutes, swilling my face, etc, did nothing to relieve it, I just have to ride it out.
Then...... nothing!
The relief is great, but as I know now, it's a false dawn. Then I start going white as a sheet and feeling sick, after a bit of vomiting, as I start to settle down and stop throwing up, everything goes calm, then BANG!
Like an explosion in my head, a headache of such ferocity that the only place I can get any peace, is a pitch black room (or under the covers) and pray that I can forget about the pain just long enough to fall asleep.

I have on two occasions, had the worst symptom, speech that makes no sense, I know what I am trying to say, but it comes out all jumbled up and total jibberish (More so than normal thanks).

Symptoms that migraine sufferers have, vary, as do the occasions when they hit a person. Some have one once every couple of years, but it is a bad one. Others have them after certain foods or drinks, that act like a trigger. Some, like me, have them three or four times a year.

Luckily, a sympathetic doctor I have, spotted the signs straight away, tried several types of medicine, until we found one that worked for me (apparently, some pain killers will not work for some people?) so that now when the pins and needles or blurred vision starts, if I take tablets and go to bed and sleep for a few hours, it reduces the length of time I have it and I don't get most of the symptoms.
So imagine my complete horror, on Sunday when I was having a nice relaxing day off, when the symptoms started.
My one day off and I start with the dreaded migraine.

Tablets taken, I retreat to my bed. Hours later, very sore head, pain killers having little effect.
So bad is it, that through Monday and Tuesday the back of my head and neck/shoulders feel like they are broken.
After a visit to the doctors on Wednesday, I find that I have not one but two infections. One in the ear and one in my sinus' these have been giving me migraines of varying levels over the past four days!

So if you know someone who suffers with migraines, please do not ridicule them - as I used to do - they effect people in different ways and can be extreme. When a migraine strikes, there is not a thing you can do about it!