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I Had A Migraine?

May 16, 2019. The day that I experienced a migraine for the first time in my 35 years of life. I have known people that have them, but there is obviously no way to really understand what something like this is like when it's happening to someone else. That all changed today. Holy shit did it change.

I have no idea what triggered it (if anything in particular). I have been traveling for work the past couple weeks and today was the last day of meetings for this week, and that's when it hit me. It started off slowly as a mild headache, then gained momentum, and that headache became very intense. It was followed by nausea, dizziness, and high sensitivity to light. Each symptom progressed to 10x what they started at. Fortunately, I must have read the future this morning because I got a late checkout from my hotel today, so I went back to the hotel and laid down in an attempt to get some relief from the crippling pain in my head. The light sensitivity was probably the strangest part of this whole experience. I shut all the drapes and turned off the lights, but even the smallest light source felt blinding. I felt like a cliche Dracula who needed to throw up his cape and dash away into darkness.

I will definitely be doing some further research into this, all while hoping this is not the first of more to come!