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Interesting. When did this start? You say "used to" but don't specify. I'm interested because in my limited experience of migraines the people who get them have always seemed to have had them, like they say "I've had them since I was a kid" etc.
About 2 years back, and at the time I'd perceived it as unilateral and I'd been in the midst of incredibly stressful exams while under a lot of pressure. That was also the case for the second episode a year later. I never had anything similar during my childhood or adolescence.
The scotoma was also very different from my impression of what a typical aura was like (not that I'm an expert on migraines) so the initial absence of headaches in addition to that had me never consider migraines as a cause.
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I'm one of those. Started getting them around age 12 or so and had many as a teenager. Fortunately they've abated as I've gotten older. I haven't gotten one in 4ish years (some severe headaches in that time, but not migraines), and before that they were down to 1-2 per year.
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I seem to get roughly one a year, usually around April-ish from memory, and they started when I was about 30.
Occasionally I'll get the first hints of an aura and it will subside but that usually results in getting the full experience a few days later.
Before I had one I'd always thought they were like a particularly bad headache. The headaches aren't great but I've had worse headaches, what's distressing is the aura part and having a front row seat to the perception that my visual cortex is being slowly torn apart from the inside.
Migraines are fascinating to me.
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