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Migraine and Postdrome
If you are suffering from migraine pain, it is present in only one side of the head.
You may be suffering from a migraine if:
- - The pain does not move
- - It is not a throbbing pain but a dull extreme pain for the scale 1-10
- - Fainting from pain is not uncommon
- - Pain can last from 4 hours to 5 days (usually last 3 days at the same intensity)
Postdrome Symptoms
- - Can’t remember words
- - Can’t remember what happened the past few days of pain
- - Cannot recollect any event, conversation, food eaten
- - Cannot comprehend—everything has to be repeated several times
- - Cannot read
- - Totally exhausted
- - Feel beat up
- - May even have muscle ache, shoulder ache, or back ache
