Migraine

[apolliana]

Starts with a slight fulness in my ears and over my eyes, which expands. My forehead starts to feel slightly numb. My eyelids droop. The forehead and nose may then tingle as if "asleep." (Sometimes there is associated soreness of the jaw that may enter at this point; I'm not sure if it's migrainous, or simply the result of my facial structure. Headache often occurs without jawache, but not usually the other way around. Perhaps the jaw pain is just a result of increased pressure all around.) This stage is where I usually stay on the weekends. I like to say it's like having a cat inside my forehead--fuzzy, taking up space, making me sleepy. Or perhaps like clouds; I do have the sense of waiting for clarity and crispness to return. The pain, should it come, is hard to localize (except the jaw pain); there are both sudden piercing jabs with precise locations (I haven't noted the locations--but there doesn't seem to be a pattern) and a bilateral ache. Times: weekends (beginning Friday afternoon), and ends of days--especially days involving fluorescent lights.