There is a lot of variation between people. I used to get terrible headaches with nausea. Then for ten years or so nothing. For the last few years I get the auras every few months but no headaches.
Yes, and even our own migraines vary from each other.
Whole head, one side, shooting through the eyes.
Sometimes I could tolerate cold gel pack and sometime (most of the time) heated gel pack.
I used to get a purplish aura but those didn’t last and weren’t profound.
Worst things to smell with a migraine?
Gasoline, car exhaust, solvents, perfume, and cheap chocolate bars.
Lazyboy type recliner is a must for those with migraines because laying flat down isn’t an option.
I had a book on migraines and it said there were 3 types: Vascular, Cluster and I can’t remember the 3rd.
Mine peaked in my high school and early college years. I’d get about three a year, often with pseudo stroke symptoms including numbness on one side, partial blindness, and difficulty speaking and reading (which was a really wild...looking at a page and seeing groups of letters but not being able to see them as words). They’d start with the visual aura, then the other symptoms would kick in, then the pain. Thankfully they usually only lasted a few hours. As I got older they gradually became more and more rare and less and less intense. It’s been years now since I’ve had one.