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I used to get them so bad that I WOULD end up in the emergency room sometimes. 24 hours was mild. The very last one I had was before I got pregnant and haven’t had one since, but THAT one lasted for 9 days and my doctor had me on amorphine drip. NOTHING stopped it. I could still feel it through the drugs. If she gets anything like that, she’s just down until it’s over...and that is NOT a good thing. NOTHING scares me worse than the possibility of that kind of heaache because you just want to die.
Never found out what caused them OR what stopped them. I just thank G-d they stopped.

Been there, done that many times myself. And ER docs aren’t exactly nice to migraine patients. Most times they think you’re just a drug seeker so they put you in a corner to wait you out. I had to get a notarized letter from my neurologist when I was traveling a lot to make it easier to get treatment in the ER.

The onset for most female migraine sufferers is usually puberty and lessen or go away with the first pregnancy.If they go go away then, they usually do at the onset of menopause; or at least come less frequently and far less powerfully.

I had my first * that I remember ) migraine at the age of six and it was a doozy!

Yes, the birth of my first child lessened the frequency, but they did keep coming. Menopause almost stopped them; however I still get blinding auras and once in a an extremely RARE while, a migraine, which is easily treated with an over the counter,aspirinless med.

That Bachmann is still having such horrific migraines ( if they ARE even migraines ! ), after having birthed five kids AND going through menopause, which has to have done, at her age, then something is really, really, REALLY seriously wrong there and she needs to come clean about it all.

I'm sorry that you had it so bad, but happy for you, that you no longer get them. :-)

People who've never had a migraine or a cluster headache have NO idea just how bad they are, nor just how debilitating.

Thanks for the ping. :-)