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I got plenty of migraines as a child and young adult. The typical pulsing pain in the front of my head above one eye, sometimes both. Later in life they became visual disturbances that subsided into a migraine. Often now they are accompanied by nausea and dizziness. Lately, for the first time I had one in my sleep. I was conscious of it, (perhaps I had woken up) though I continued or fell back to sleep for several more hours. Woke with pretty bad nausea. Collapsed on my way back from getting a bucket, was too dizzy to get up and threw up (in the bucket, fortunately). That was fun.

Anyways, today I found out these headaches have a name. Scintillating scotoma, who knew? (rhetorical)

Does anyone else here get these type of headaches?

I got plenty of migraines as a child and young adult. The typical pulsing pain in the front of my head above one eye, sometimes both. Later in life they became visual disturbances that subsided into a migraine. Often now they are accompanied by nausea and dizziness. Lately, for the first time I had one in my sleep. I was conscious of it, (perhaps I had woken up) though I continued or fell back to sleep for several more hours. Woke with pretty bad nausea. Collapsed on my way back from getting a bucket, was too dizzy to get up and threw up (in the bucket, fortunately). That was fun. Anyways, today I found out these headaches have a name. Scintillating scotoma, who knew? (rhetorical) Does anyone else here get these type of headaches?

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As a child around 7-10 frequently had migraines that started with a huge blindspot then horrific head pain for hours..my sister would rub my temples and I'd fall asleep when I woke up id throw up and migraine would be gone. They went away my teen years only to come back in my early 20's, same thing blindspot with electric zigzag and pain..had a craniotomy to remove a colloid cyst in 3rd ventricle and they went away until my late 40's..this time blindspot and electric zigzags but no real headache, just kinda leave me feeling blah..headaches if any kind are truly miserable