[UriyVlasov]

I do occasionally get migraines as in, severe headache on one side of my head with light sensitivity, nausea and vomiting, but nothing that lasts a week. The duration for me is maybe half a day, not much more. I have no idea how I would begin to deal with ones that lasted a week.

My triggers appear to be sleeping in too long aka the 'Saturday migraine', very strong sunlight in my eyes combined with some other factor I cannot as yet pin down and I suffered my last migraine after getting incredibly stressed out and angry at work one day and basically having a meltdown. The day after I had the worst migarine I'd had in a decade. I've tried to detach from the shit at work since then as I don't want a repeat performance. That one was so obviusly tied to stress I can't ignore it.

In terms of meds, well, I can't keep anything down when I'm in the throes. If I spot one coming on, I take two of the paracetamol and codeine tabletss which we can get over the counter here and try to stay away from bright lights and sometimes they'll avert it. Once I'm in the throes of one I just have to take to a darkened room, lie down and sort of suffer it out. I would probably see a doctor about some serious meds if I had these regularly and they truly disrupted my life but thankfully they're pretty rare as in only a couple of times a year or thereabouts these days, so I haven't.