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Originally Posted by TheShadow
One sidenote - I've noticed I only get my migraines on one side of my head (the right side), and I'm wondering if this is odd or not. Anyone else get them on just one side?
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Mine are 'one-side' migraines. Once full-blown, the headache feels like someone has driven a knitting needle through my eye and out the back of my skull, only it's square and they're twisting it back and forth. I'm fortunate that I get a bit of a pain aura warning when one is coming on, and if I am able to take the necessary measures within about twenty minutes, I am able to avoid experiencing the full headache. If I'm able to, I get myself to a bed in as totally dark a room as possible, drop 400mg of ibuprofen with a Coca-cola chaser and try to go to sleep using the pillow to apply gentle pressure to the affected eye - usually my right one. Nine times out of ten, I wake up an hour or two later with at worst a mild 'normal' headache. Of course, the tenth time blows goat.
Happily, I haven't had a nasty one for quite a long time. After I quit smoking, they almost stopped altogether. Yet another excellent reason to quit if the government raping you for voluntary tax donations wasn't sufficient.
