Some people are similarly skeptical that migraines without auras are "real migraines," but once you explain that it's otherwise the same symptoms (headache, sensitivity to light/sound, nausea, vomiting) and treated by the same specialized painkillers, they'll generally take your diagnosis at face value. According to Wikipedia, a pretty sizable majority of migraine sufferers don't have auras. But it's a distinctive symptom, so it's well known.
I wonder if the reaction to schizophrenia is partly due to not having as strong an understanding of how to treat it, in addition to not knowing what it's exact causes are. Having a well proven solution to a problem seems to make it easier for people to accept that the problem really existed.
I used to get what I would very much consider "real migraines" as a child. Would lay in bed shivering with this crippling jack hammer bashing into the (always) lower left side of my skull.
Eventually the pain would get to the point where I'd get up, go to the bathroom and vomit; then within minutes the migraine would subside.
As an adult I rarely get them, but when I feel one coming I know to take a couple of Advil to head it off at the pass so to speak.
Anyway, what is a migraine with an aura? The only aura about me that I recall was my sisters telling me to shut the hell up from their bedrooms o_O
Thanks, interesting. I've never had that experience pre-migraine, although subtle scotoma is always there; i.e. transparent squiggly lines in the vision (assume everyone has this).
I wonder if the reaction to schizophrenia is partly due to not having as strong an understanding of how to treat it, in addition to not knowing what it's exact causes are. Having a well proven solution to a problem seems to make it easier for people to accept that the problem really existed.