Usually my severe migraine(more than 50 years of severe migraine)is accompanied by severe neck and eye pains on the affected side.The pain also spreads up to the back of the head on this side.
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Q: Do neck and eye pains necessarily accompany severe migraine?
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12/22/10 6:00pm
hassan,
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No, some peopkle experience neck pain and / or eye pain. Others don't. Also, we don't always have the same symptoms with every Migraine. For information about the potential phases and symptoms of a Migraine attack, see Anatomy of a Migraine.
One thing to note is that if your Migraines change in pattern or you start experiencing new or strange symptoms, it's time to check in with your doctor.
Welcome again!
Teri
12/24/10 8:40am
Many thanks for your comment.What you mentioned does apply to my case.Isuffer from such attacks not less than 14 times a month.In 1982,
during my studies in the U.K,Iwas reffered to a migraine clinic.Medications were prescribed,e.g desril and no sound improvement was felt.Teri does not agree
with my doctor who thinks that i have to live with it and try to avoid triggers.
She advised that i have to see a migraine specialist ,since neurologists are
not necessarily headache specialists.
best wishes and regards.
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I was going o ask this very same question because I have had those symptoms the last two attacks I have had.
I am just about recovered from an attack lasting 28 hours, my most severe to date. It built up over 48 hours, starting on Tuesday morning with a mild headache which went away after taking Ibuprofen and Co-Codamol. I awoke at 5.30 am yesterday with the familiar stabbing pain behind my right eye, which rapidly spread to both eyes and down the back of my neck. That was the pattern for the rest of the day; pain, feeling sick (I vomited once) and none of my usual remedies alleviated it. I was beginning to think meningitis, when I got up at 5.30 am (call of nature, why do we pee a lot during an attack?) and it was still there, albeit milder. I finally got up at 7.30 am and although the pain was gone, I felt so weak and shaky, as if I was getting over a dose of flu. I have never felt like this before and it scared me so much.
I will make an appointment with my GP after the Christmas break, because i cannot cope with that amount of pain again.