I have suffered from migraines for years. I think I got my first one when I was twelve or thirteen. Since then, I’ve had them on and off, at least twice a month. A doctor once told me that they start to subside after forty. I’m over three years into that decade, and there hasn’t been much of easement on the headaches.
Migraines are a different kind of headache. People who have never gotten a migraine cannot possibly understand the intensity. Sinus infections are bad. Hangovers are too. But a full-blown migraine will knock you straight on your ass. Any ray of light is excruciatingly painful. Any sound above a whisper seems like it's going to burst your eardrums and pound into your brain. Speaking of the pounding of the brain, there are some points that you just want to pull the top of your head off just to relieve some of the pressure that builds and builds.
