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….
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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 is what makes oral…
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 region —…
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…
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 with a…
Thunderclap onset is the line. What a sentinel headache is and why the one that eases is the dangerous one.
Gradual spread versus sudden onset, positive versus negative symptoms – and why any doubt means calling emergency services.
A set of questions to work through, and why ‘both’ is the most common and most useful answer.
Roughly nine in ten self-described sinus headaches are migraine. Why migraine produces genuine sinus symptoms.
Restlessness versus stillness is nearly diagnostic. Why the distinction is urgent and what cluster responds to that migraine does not.