Photophobia is so characteristic of migraine that it forms part of the diagnostic criteria. Ordinary daylight becomes intolerable. A phone screen feels like a searchlight….
For a large proportion of people with migraine, nausea is the worst part. The head pain is severe, but the nausea is what makes an attack unbearable — and it…
Of every headache location, this is the one where the anatomy points most directly at the upper cervical spine. Pain at the base of the skull sits over the suboccipital…
Retro-orbital pain is one of the most common headache descriptions and one of the most misleading. Patients feel it inside the socket — pressure behind the globe, as though the…
The word migraine descends from hemicrania — half the head. One-sidedness has been considered the signature of the condition for as long as it has had a name, and the…
Aura is the strangest part of migraine and the part patients describe most vividly. A shimmering arc at the edge of vision that grows over twenty minutes. A blind spot…