So maybe I was on, or near, the right track with the headaches during my hypo years. The pain was usually near my left ear, a sudden, thumping pain, as it is now.  But after so many years, I don't recall an aura.   So I've had migraines since 1976, and was diagnosed in 1991.  I usually get the aura right before, and it seldom disappears until I have taken something and slept for several hours.  Tuesday I had gotten up at my usual time, felt fine, did all my morning rituals, sat down to put my shoes on, and wham - aura.   But then I did a stupid thing.  I took the Excedrin, and proceeded to work.  DUMB.  Got to the bus stop, where the crossing guard said I didn't look well.  He tried his darndest to get me to go back home.  But I got on the bus.  Got all the way downtown, crossed the street, and got on the homebound bus.  Dropped clothes on the floor, and went to bed. The next day I made it to work, having slept for 22 hours.  Sort of 'floated' around the office, still a bit dizzy, still headachey.  But I got thru the day, and such a looong day. A few co-workers asked how I felt.  Did she?  Not on your life.  She's not one for asking such things, admitting an error, or believing me for anything. When the cleaning lady said she hadn't seen me that morning, and I told her why, she stepped away from me, like you would when you learn that someone has a cold.  She knew what migraine is.  I told her maybe she could educate someone else (super). I don't have the migraines as often lately, thankfully, but when I do, they floor me.  I now want to contact my first neurologist (hypo) and throw the migraine idea at him to see what he says, if he even remembers me from 1976-1986.  The hypo-related seizures stopped after ten years; I wish the migraines would as well, tho they aren't as frequent, but are still hell.  I hope that menopause doesn't increase the appearance of migraines.  Would/could it?  I'm in the perimenopause stage (50). Thanks!