A headache or a migraine???

Oh how this annoys the hell out of me!

Last Thursday I awoke with the familiar thudding behind my right eye and tightness at the base of my skull foretelling of a migraine imminent. Not the best day to get one as it was shopping day! So I gritted my teeth, took some medication and prayed for strength to get through the day.

I made it through my shopping with sheer determination and staggered home to curl up on the sofa and sleep. Thanks to the tablets I had taken it wasn't quite bad enough to go to bed, but still bad enough for the slightest sound to feel like a knife being driven through my head.

Two hours later, I felt well enough to have my staple "after an attack" food of toast and a mug of tea when the phone rang. Having caller ID, my daughter was able to tell me that it was my elder daughter away at university. However, when she answered, it was her housemate; he's a lovely gay, very camp, young man who rings me when he wants advice or a moan, unfortunately it's more often than not the latter. I groaned inwardly when I heard his voice and he immediately began to tell me that he "had a migraine again". I seethed, he always says that he has a migraine and yet all it is, is a bad headache.

Ten minutes of moaning and I hung up to see him pop up on my daughter's computer screen...migraine??? Huh!

A friend of mine was chatting with me on MSN at the weekend and professed to having had a migraine for 3 days! I immediately bit back with had it been a migraine, she wouldn't be on the PC. When she described how she felt it was obvious that it was sinuisitis, NOT migraine.

Why oh why, so people insist they have a migraine, when it's blatantly obvious that they have a headache? It really annoys me; its like saying that they have back problems when all it is, is muscle spasm. GRRRR!!!