does anyone suffer like me?

Hello, and welcome to MyMigraineConnection.com!

Yes, there are plenty of us who suffer like you, unfortunately. Welcome! According to the International Headache Society's International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd Edition, atypical Migraine is not a diagnosis. There are typical aura with Migraine, typical aura with non-Migraine and typical aura without Migraine to name just a few different types of Migraines. What you may have been experiencing was Migraine without aura, but we are not medical professionals so cannot diagnose you. Eye pain can be a symptom of Migraine without aura. For more info this article talks about the 4 phases of a Migraine attack and their symptoms: http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/understanding-migraine-29375-5.html

Contacting your doctor when there is a change in  your symptoms is always the right thing to do, great job!

Thank you for creating a SharePost.  SharePosts are a form of blogging, and there are many things you can do with them. You can share an experience, suggest something that's helped you, use SharePosts as a Migraine and headache journal, and many other things.

We also have a discussion forum that you may want to check out. Especially if you have questions or are looking for information, you may find the interaction on the forum to be quite helpful. We have lots of other members who have Migraine with and without aura who are on the forum, so we hope to see you there. To get to the forum, just look for the orange box marked "Manage" and click on the Migraine Forums link. Because our forums are maintained by a third party, you'll need to register for the forum. You can use the same information you used to create your community log-in if you like. If you want to go directly to the forum, you can click

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Along with your personal "My Home" page and the discussion forum, you'll find links to a great deal of helpful information on the main page of our site,

http://www.MyMigraineConnection.com.

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them to the forum or send me a message through my profile.

Welcome again,

Nancy Bonk

MyMigraineConnection.com Expert

As Nancy said, "atypical Migraine" isn't a diagnosis. "Atypical" is quite often used as a descriptive term to mean that your Migraines are presenting symptoms that make them hard to classify or vary somewhat from the symptoms usually associated with the type of Migraine you have.

With that much eye pain, did your doctor suggest that you see an ophthalmologist to be sure that all of this IS Migraine?

Teri