Furi
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I frequently get Migrains without a headache ('bout 2-4 a month), I tend to get VERY hypersensetive to light, a slight sort of paralysis across my eyelid and upper cheek(feels like someone has sellotaped my eyelid shut, but it operates normally), and then an Aura, Aura differs between fractures (oooh pretty zig zags) Polka (masses of very annoying intense Red dots whizzing around like a pile of kittens in a catnip storage facility) and one that is like looking through bubbled glass that drifts slowly over my vision.
Depending on the intensity (with or without headache) I suffer other sensory disturbances after the initial Aura (Vertigo, Balance, Hearing go for a burton, Random Burn Freeeze Itching or numbness of skin areas etc) if I am likely to get a headache I also tend to suffer sequential 'adrenaline' attacks, these tend to be my body squirting vast amounts of adrenaline into my system and 'shocking' me to full conciousness by providing fascinating non existant fears (like Fire threat, Crush threat, general mpending Physical harm) I Really REALLY hate that as it makes me even more twitchy then when I was doing speed balls, and after 4 hours turns me into a gibbering wide eyed wreck (oi brain I'm hypersensetive to light enough quit dilating my damned pupils will you)
The migraine starts and ends with the paralysed feeling always in the same part of the face, as I can get many auras and different symptoms and intensity during the period of the migraine, typically I find that to be around 3 and a half days, rarely less than 2 or more than 6.
I have suffered these migraines regularly since around 4yo, possible triggers, well the first trigger would have been me falling over in the bath and impaling my head on a tap, (punctured skull beside my left eye,) I then managed 5 weeks later to go ass over tit off my bike, and smack my head on the kerb in exactly the same place and opened up the 'crack' again but this time to allowing Grit gravel and general other roadside crud into my gulliver (me are real genius)
now my main trigger tends to be whim, just the sheer inconvenient cocktardary of having it happen at that specific time (going in for a job interview wearing Red filter shades is not impressive to a future employer, "So Furi, do these blinding headaches happen frequently")
but specifically whatever flavouring it is they put in pure alcohol to turn it into cheap as crap faux whisky, the same whisky flavouring affects me if in cakes, sweeties, chocolates, whisky based cocktails or anything similar, will trigger a reaction within an hour or so (if I am sober enough to notice it) Luckily decent scottish whisky doesn't trigger it. I think it may be a red food colouring as I have noticed milder but similar reactions with certain fake red leicsters or chilli stuff.
Excessive blood in my caffeine system seems to increase intensity and duration, A GP advised me to quit caffeine for a month to see if that helped, for which I was rewarded with a 9 day long nauseous half blind adrenaline fueled semi halluciegenic twitching Headache (Thanks Doc) that might have been cause/effect, sheer co-incidence or just the come down from a near continuous 18 year intense caffeine binge but I don't fancy repeating the experiment to find out for certain.
I do however find vast quantities of alcohol in the form of real ale helps, particularly with balance vertigo and sensetivity to light. but I doubt I can get that supplied on the NHS.
Depending on the intensity (with or without headache) I suffer other sensory disturbances after the initial Aura (Vertigo, Balance, Hearing go for a burton, Random Burn Freeeze Itching or numbness of skin areas etc) if I am likely to get a headache I also tend to suffer sequential 'adrenaline' attacks, these tend to be my body squirting vast amounts of adrenaline into my system and 'shocking' me to full conciousness by providing fascinating non existant fears (like Fire threat, Crush threat, general mpending Physical harm) I Really REALLY hate that as it makes me even more twitchy then when I was doing speed balls, and after 4 hours turns me into a gibbering wide eyed wreck (oi brain I'm hypersensetive to light enough quit dilating my damned pupils will you)
The migraine starts and ends with the paralysed feeling always in the same part of the face, as I can get many auras and different symptoms and intensity during the period of the migraine, typically I find that to be around 3 and a half days, rarely less than 2 or more than 6.
I have suffered these migraines regularly since around 4yo, possible triggers, well the first trigger would have been me falling over in the bath and impaling my head on a tap, (punctured skull beside my left eye,) I then managed 5 weeks later to go ass over tit off my bike, and smack my head on the kerb in exactly the same place and opened up the 'crack' again but this time to allowing Grit gravel and general other roadside crud into my gulliver (me are real genius)
now my main trigger tends to be whim, just the sheer inconvenient cocktardary of having it happen at that specific time (going in for a job interview wearing Red filter shades is not impressive to a future employer, "So Furi, do these blinding headaches happen frequently")
but specifically whatever flavouring it is they put in pure alcohol to turn it into cheap as crap faux whisky, the same whisky flavouring affects me if in cakes, sweeties, chocolates, whisky based cocktails or anything similar, will trigger a reaction within an hour or so (if I am sober enough to notice it) Luckily decent scottish whisky doesn't trigger it. I think it may be a red food colouring as I have noticed milder but similar reactions with certain fake red leicsters or chilli stuff.
Excessive blood in my caffeine system seems to increase intensity and duration, A GP advised me to quit caffeine for a month to see if that helped, for which I was rewarded with a 9 day long nauseous half blind adrenaline fueled semi halluciegenic twitching Headache (Thanks Doc) that might have been cause/effect, sheer co-incidence or just the come down from a near continuous 18 year intense caffeine binge but I don't fancy repeating the experiment to find out for certain.
I do however find vast quantities of alcohol in the form of real ale helps, particularly with balance vertigo and sensetivity to light. but I doubt I can get that supplied on the NHS.
