Migraine - Atypical presentation of migraine without aura? : Women-care

Migraine overview

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A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.

My experience-Atypical presentation of migraine without aura?

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I've been having a bilateral pain (pressure, not stabbing or pulsating) on the back of my head and down my neck that usually comes about sometime in the late morning to the afternoon. The onset is abrupt (literally no pain to pain in a second), and starts in the back of the head and then the neck. It comes out of nowhere, usually when I'm sitting upright, actually. It makes me nauseated, photosensitive, sometimes muffled/popped ear (always the left side) or tinnitus, and overall not great. Sometimes, I feel lightheaded, dizzy, and shaky. The pressure intensifies when standing, bending down, just tilting my head down, and even trying to straighten my head.

I've figured out that laying down (preferrably in the dark), keeping a hand pressed to the back of my head/neck, craning my head all the way back, and letting my head rest on my hand have helped. So I suppose, anything that helps keep pressure off my neck and the back of my head? OTC meds and caffeine have minimal impact.

I finally went in to see a PCP, and she diagnosed me with migraine without aura and prescribed a triptan. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like it doesn't really match the description of the typical clinical presentation - Has anyone experienced something similar?

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Migraine Symptoms

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Migraines, which have an effect on children and teens as nicely as adults, can development via 4 stages: prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. Not everyone who has migraines goes through all stages.

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