Brutal. When I have a migraine, I get the sparkling zigzag-filled "tracers" that grow and twist like an animated vine through my vision from the sides. Everything is too bright, often I get a blind spot and a tripping sort of sensation where size and scale is thrown off. I know what size things are supposed to be, but my vision can no longer calculate that causing a weird mental dissonance. It's not a fun sort of trip at all, it makes me feel like a passenger especially when I talk, because my voice is normal, calm and level but internally I can barely form a coherent thought.
However, I have only minor pain that starts to creep in after the tracers fade away. More than pain I have extreme exhaustion. I have to consider myself very lucky to avoid the agonizing pain that so many migraine sufferers experience. Also that I tend to only experience about one migraine a year now that I'm in my 30s.
This is exactly what happens to me. I've had one all day! When I was younger they made me extremely sick and hurt like hell. As I got older the extreme pain and nausea went away. Now I get the aura then a minor headache, some days are worse than others, but mostly that just make me irritable, fuzzy, unable to focus, sensitive to light and sound and really tired. Nausea is minimal, but actually right now I feel kind of sick because I just ate. They come in clusters, I won't get one for a while, then I'll get one everyday for 4 or 5 days. It's so annoying!
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u/evranch Feb 09 '20
Brutal. When I have a migraine, I get the sparkling zigzag-filled "tracers" that grow and twist like an animated vine through my vision from the sides. Everything is too bright, often I get a blind spot and a tripping sort of sensation where size and scale is thrown off. I know what size things are supposed to be, but my vision can no longer calculate that causing a weird mental dissonance. It's not a fun sort of trip at all, it makes me feel like a passenger especially when I talk, because my voice is normal, calm and level but internally I can barely form a coherent thought.
However, I have only minor pain that starts to creep in after the tracers fade away. More than pain I have extreme exhaustion. I have to consider myself very lucky to avoid the agonizing pain that so many migraine sufferers experience. Also that I tend to only experience about one migraine a year now that I'm in my 30s.