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I'm 34 and have been getting migraines since i was 15. I have no idea what the triggers are. After this long you'd think i could find some food I've eaten in common each time, or realized i was stressed out, or the weather or something but they just really seem to be random.

Every time, without fail for 19 years, mine are a short 10-15 minute visual disturbance followed by mild headache pain if i don't get ibuprofen... except yesterday. Yesterday i was sitting at my computer reading and email when inexplicably i could not read anymore. I immediately started testing my other functions, speaking, walking, listening to people talk and all were fine. I could even sound out the words in the email one letter at a time (an arduous task to say the least) and i could understand, but my sight reading skills? Zip! Right out the window.

I would have gone to the ER, but then i started seeing auras and realized what was happening. Knowing that migraines are inflamed arteries in the brain putting pressure on different places in the brain, it made perfect sense that this was not an emergency but definitely an odd migraine.

So should i still go to the doctor?

November 12, 2014 - 10:45pm

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