Migraine Symptoms

  Migraine is a recurring disease that affects work and life greatly, and is a serious threat to human health. Migraine is mainly divided into migraine with aura and migraine without aura, which have the following manifestations: Migraine without aura: It is the most common type of migraine, accounting for about 80%. There may be no obvious aura symptoms before the onset of migraine, but some patients have mental disorder, fatigue, yawning, loss of appetite and general discomfort before the onset of migraine, and the pain may be triggered by menstrual flow, alcohol consumption and hunger on an empty stomach. The headache is mostly slowly aggravated, with recurrent episodes of one-sided or bilateral frontotemporal pain with pulsating sensation. It is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia, sweating, general discomfort, and scalp tenderness.  Migraine with aura: It accounts for about 10% of migraine patients. Precursory symptoms such as lethargy, inattention and yawning may be present for hours to days before the attack. Before or at the onset of the headache, there is often a reversible aura, most commonly a visual aura, such as blurred vision, dark spots, flashes of light, bright spots and lines, or distortion of vision; followed by sensory aura; speech and motor aura are rare. Aura symptoms usually develop gradually within 5 to 20 minutes and last no more than 60 minutes; different aura can appear one after another. Headache occurs at the same time or within 60 minutes after the aura, and is manifested as a one-sided or bilateral frontotemporal or retro-orbital pulsating headache, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia or phonophobia, pallor or sweating, polyuria, irritability, odor terror and fatigue, etc. Head and facial edema and temporal artery prominence are seen. The headache can be aggravated by activity and relieved by sleep. The pain usually peaks in 1-2 hours, lasts 4-6 hours or more than 10 hours, and can last for several days in severe cases, and after the headache subsides, there is often fatigue, lethargy, irritability, weakness and poor appetite.  There are various types of migraine attacks, not only the above two types, but also special types such as retinal migraine, childhood periodic syndrome, etc. If migraine is suspected, it should be examined and diagnosed by a neurology specialist in a regular hospital.