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The Complete Guide to Migraine Headaches by Alice Peart Page 18 of 87
5. Signs and Symptoms of Typical Migraine headaches
A migraine is a vascular headache and a neurological disease. Migraine attacks
are not the same for all people. A typical migraine headache may last for four to
seventy-two hours. Some suffer migraine attacks many times a month while
some suffer only twice in a year.
Common signs and symptoms of typical migraine headaches are:
¾ Pulsating and throbbing pain in the head
¾ Pain on either one or both sides of the head
¾ Nausea and vomiting
¾ Sensitivity to light (Photophobia)
¾ Sensitivity to sound (Phonophobia)
¾ Increasing pain with physical exertion
¾ Headache intensifies with head movements and
¾ Splitting headache which discourages normal functioning
Migraine headaches can be either a migraine with aura or a migraine without
aura. A migraine without aura is the common migraine and those with aura are
the classic migraines.
If you suffer from classic migraines, you experience additional symptoms which
can occur maybe half an hour before the onset of migraine headaches.
A few such symptoms are:
¾ Sudden appearance of shiny and zigzag lines in your line of vision
¾ Flashes of light across your vision
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