You people have no earthly idea how lucky you are. When I get a migraine it feels like someone is swinging a pickaxe into my brain. All I can do is curl into a little ball and sleep until it goes away.
Regular headaches suck, too. Sometimes I feel like I’m almost never without a headache.
(And you don’t always throw up from a migraine – different people have different symptoms)
I’ve never had a headache that didn’t have a clear reason. A gf was a big coffee drinker and when we broke up I quit and got caffeine withdrawal headaches for a few days. The one time I had a hangover. But loud noises, stress, or the “I just get them” most people talk about? Nope.
For the record, headache people are usually amazed to discover everyone doesn’t have some sort of painkillers on hand.
I very rarely get headaches. I would say maybe two in the past five or more years would be a representative average.
This is not counting “ice cream headaches,” which I’ll get if I’m not careful eating something very cold. But they pass within a minute or so.
I have some sinus issues, but thankfully, they don’t translate into sinus headaches. I’ve had only one of those in my life…maybe 15 years ago or so…so I’m grateful they’re not a problem, because that one was truly awful.
I don’t know how to account for my lack of headaches. I’ve never drunk coffee — can’t stand the taste of it. I do drink an average of 1 1/2 cans of Dr. Pepper a day. But that’s the extent of my caffeine intake.
Want to help me in my experiment? I’m bombarding them with hatewaves to see if those cause headaches.
I had migraines throughout my childhood, but at some point in my early 20s, they just stopped. I still get headaches, sometimes nasty ones, but no more migraines. This fact is sort of a talisman that gets pulled out when things aren’t going my way.
Whiner-Me: “I’m tired, I have a cold, and this task is stupid and pointless. This sucks!”
Migraineless-Me: “Yes, it sucks, but you don’t have a migraine.”
Whiner-Me: “…you win again.”
I’ve noticed a sort of division between people that get headaches and those that get migraines, wherein the former give the impression are just drama queens with headaches. I had an employee who frequently called in sick due to migraines and his coworkers thought he was just being a baby. Like you, they eventually stopped as he entered his 30s.
i get them when hit in head and from dehydration. im 44 so maybe 5-6 in life hangovers included. im O- neg blood type never got chicken pox or mumps or any child hood illness. i had i high fever when i was a teen and hallucinated once. my body temp is high all the time doctor explained this is normal some have lower body temp thats why the average. im sensitive to cold big time but super heat tolerant and i have 20/20 vision. im no superman with bones broken and lots of scars and a lower back ache that comes from standing. hope this info is helpful
Haven’t had a headache in probably over 50 years. Never. Even after imbibing way too much alcohol the evening before.
The only thing I ever had close to a headache was one of the three manifestations of migraine. To explain - a migraine will cause;
1 - The traditional severe headache.
2 - Nausea
3 - A very spectacular thing called a “migraine aura”, lasting about 30 minutes of so.
A migraine attack can have one, two or all three of these symptoms.
#3 is the only thing I’ve ever gotten, so I guess I’m lucky. Although the first time it happened I thought for sure that I had just developed a nasty brain tumor. Looks like you’re observing things thru a kaleidoscope. A real attention-getter.
In my childhood, I had very severe headaches, but they do not fit descriptions I’ve read for migraine. No doctor was ever consulted and no useful medication was available except aspirin (it was the 1940s). Mom gave me an Alka Seltzer and I toughed them out, which is how things were dealt with in those days. By the time I finished high school, I never had them again, except for an occasional one somewhat less severe. The last one I had was in a car, riding late one night from Freetown to Monrovia, which went away before reaching the destination. That was in June 1976. I have not had a headache since. I have no medical explanation nor lay hypotheses to explain this.
My headaches never go away without aspirin. If I try to just drink lots of water and sit in a cool dark room, it’ll keep getting worse and worse.
Sometimes I wonder if I’d’ve ever survived before the invention of aspirin, but apparently many cultures made remedies from willow tree bark. I wouldn’t try it myself, but it’s reassuring my ancestors were dealing with this same damn malady in much the same way.