Hey everybody.

For almost as long as I can remember I've been having migraines every so often. Sometimes something causes it (caffeine detox for example), sometimes it's just there for no reason.
What happens is I'll be groggy the entire day, with a not-quite-a-headache and a not-quite-a-nausea, and then after a few hours it goes into migraine mode.
I don't have the variant where light and sound make it worse, I have the one where it's coupled with nausea.
The last anywhere from a few hours to an entire day, medication doesn't work, and eventually I will either throw up and it'll pass in minutes (still feel groggy, though.)
These are located at the right side of my head, a little over the temple and a bit " into" the brain. When I have them I feel like there is something in me and if I just get it out it might help. Examples include something I ate, earwax, saliva... Of course it doesn't work, it's probably a symptom.
There is no pattern except the caffeine one.
I usually have about two a month, but it varies.

Sometimes I have regular headaches in the exact same spot that go away with medication and aren't as bad and feel completely different.
I rarely have them anywhere else except if I crick my neck or sleep way too little or something.

I was wondering if any of you would like to SCAN this or otherwise take a peek at it and tell me if you find something out

A true migrain is far more than a headache. You've got some of the symptoms, a partial migraine. You're lucky. Tho it may not seem like it. Full blown migraines are the superheroes of headaches!

* head pain
* neck and back pain
* fever
* body aches
* incredible sensitivity to light
* same to sound
* time dilation effects (everythign speeds up or slows down)
* nausea (sometimes vomiting)
* dizziness
* greatly increased meta-senses
and more fun stuff...

The cause for this pain, whether on the headache or the migraine end of the scale, is the same.

Some energy is trying to break free, to move in you, and you are trying to keep it under control. It can be a meta- ability opening for the first time or and old one increasing. It can be kundalini or other awakening energies. Lots of specifics. All of them come down to this: increased energy flow and an effort to supress it. The suppressing creates a back pressure (like putting your thumb over the end of a running water hose). Headache, etc. pain tells you that you are surpressing.

The answer: try to catch it as soon as possible. Migraines always start kinda bad and grow worse. catch it early and you'll save a lot of suffering. Give the energy permission to move. Reach out to others who can work energy and ask for their help. Look for any fear or anxiety you are experiencing. Such things lead us to lock up and shut down. Try to find the cause and deal with it. BREATHE! Trust your process. Don't fight the migraine. Let it flow. Ride out the experiences. Let it happen.

((That's not a SCAN of you. That's general information. But it may help))

Angel

Thanks, Angel.

According to the doctor they are full migraines, even though he didn't think so at first because I suck at describing feelings I wouldn't be calling it migraines if I'd just wikipedia'd the symptoms and thought "hey this is me".
He says you can either have the light/sound kind or the nausea kind, even though you'll always have a bit of both. Light/sound sensitivity is much more common.
For me it's the nausea kind. I suppose I am lucky though, since I can still almost sort of function with nausea, if I squint and don't do a lot of moving (and don't smell any food...). I don't HAVE to close the blinds and power down for the entire duration, but it really passes much faster and is just more comfortable in general when I do.
Either way, the exact diagnosis doesn't matter.

The 'good' thing about the migraines is I can tell they're coming up to 12 hours in advance; even before I start the 4-5 hour feeling-like-crap phase that comes before the migraine, I can smell something burning. Some people see spots, get tunnelvision (one person I know goes blind in her left eye a few hours before it hits), some hear a high pitched noise... phantom smells of a wood fire have so far been a pretty reliable indication so catching it early shouldn't be too hard Of course that doesn't go well when people in the street light their fireplaces and I get scared over nothing

Anyway, thanks again! I'll keep all this in mind the next time one occurs.
The last one was in full swing when I woke up yesterday (good times...) so I think I've got a while to go before the next one *knock on wood*

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To the rest:
I'm still not entirely sure what a SCAN is, it's just something I heard used here and it seemed context appropriate. Since this forum is also here for practice and I don't think these things are going to go away overnight, you're all still welcome to take a closer look, whether it's SCANning or something else.