The types of migraines are the common migraine, and the classic migraine. They are broken down into various types such as ocular migraines, cluster migraines, complicated migraines, basilar artery migraines, silent migraines, and a few more.
The majority or migraine sufferers have the common migraine. They will have the nausea, and vomiting, but not the aura. We have quite a few pages on the various types of migraines one can have. Some you may not have heard of.Have you ever heard of Dysphrenic migraine?
With the dysphrenic migraine you can have total loss of memory, be confused, irritated, and disoriented.
Episodes last up to six hours. And you can feel the effects of it for up to twenty four hours. You may have a headache, but you can have this type or migraine, and not have pain.
The conditions can be so severe,that young kids can have partial,
or generalized seizure activity or even coma
A status migraine is a migraine that won't go away.
It is believed that the status migraine comes about by the overuse of pain medicine such as ergot, or narcotic medications. These migraines will not respond to your regular pain medicine, and many have to go to the ER for migraine help. In order to find migraine relief you will have to cut back on
your pain medicine
Have you heard of Hemicrania Continua, another of the types of migraines?
Hemicrania Continua is what it sounds like. Half of your head hurts continuously. You have mild to moderate pain all of the time, and goes on to migraines. If you suffer from this, the medicine Indomethacin helps your migraines. This medicine is a anti-inflammatory pain reliever "and can be very hard on the stomach".
If you suffer from hemicrania continua, indomethacin will help you
Another type of headache is the cluster headache, or as it's sometimes called the cluster migraine.
Years ago these migraine headaches were called suicide headaches. People could not stand the pain. The pain of cluster headaches are said to be worst than migraines. An attack is rapid, and doesn't come with the signs that a migraine has. But they are diagnosed as migraine headaches much of the time.
We have two pages on cluster migraine, and cluster headaches
An ocular migraine is also known as ophthalmic migraine, or silent migraine, and are connected to the eye.
Some of the most common ocular symptoms are blind spots, zigzagging patterns, flashes of light, and shimmering stars. If you have the classical migraine,
And with some of these migraine types like the complicated migraines, plus a few more, you should go to a headache specialist to be checked.
If this is your first time of having a migraine like the complicated migraine, go to the ER. Be on the safe side.
