These startling, sometimes frightening head pains have been described in various ways:

• In the beginning, when I began having migraines, I suffered a sudden slash of pain, very intense and quick on the right side of my head. It started at one point and webbed out to what it felt like a inch in length. I had never felt this type of pain and it scared me.
• They are intense, sharp, stabbing pain about your skull, as if you were being stabbed with an ice pick.
• I was just wondering if anyone...