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I've had intractable migraine pain, and yes I've seen the docs, have meds (that usually knock it out) but sometimes a head massage is needed, especially if you've been stressed for a while.
The temple areas, as well as big muscles in your neck on either side of the spine. I'm lucky my wife seems to know the exact pressure points to hit.
That's more of a tension headache fix, but sometimes its part of it.
Being a long term patient of neurologists (migraines, seizures) and having a wife who works in neurology I tend to believe the doctor she worked with who stated that once you have migraines, all headaches are a migraine clinically. They're just more or lwwa debilitating based on severity.
Interesting, I've always categorized them by whether they go away from standard painkillers or if I need to use rizatriptan. Migraines are much more frequent for me than normal headaches but I still do have ones that go away when I take some tylenol or ibuprofen. I've been lucky so far that my migraines almost always go away after 1 rizatriptan, and I've never had one make it past a second one.
That's my diagnostic tool as well. My GO told me to use the rizatriptan as my first medicine, so if that doesn't kill it then I know it's not a migraine.
If you think that's ingesting, look into silent migraines.
Essentially, you get all the physiological issues with migraines except the pain.
So being sensitive to light and sound, loud noises, nausea, the whole shebang, just no pain.
Also, interesting bit of theory, in Alice in Wonderland, the growing/shrinking and dilation of space is thought to be a side effect of migraines and its thought the author suffered from them.
Its actually called Alice in Wonderland syndrome.
I've experiened it myself, if your heads been fucky and seems like that hallway got longer, or that road got shorter, it could be a side effect of a migraine.