The postdrome: migraine's silent sister | Scicurious

Scicurious talks about her experience of postdrome, the little-known aftermath of a migraineLast week I had a migraine. To some that won't mean much, but fellow sufferers will know that it means hours, or even days, of nausea, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, and crushing, pulsing pain. The kind of pain that makes you think (in the moments when you can think at all) that self- trepanation with the rusty drill from the understairs cupboard might be a viable option. Eventually - minutes, hours, or days, later - the pain subsides. For me the days following a migraine are filled with a mixture of relief and mental exhaustion. My head is sore and my brain is tired.It feels kind of like a mental hangover - like being drugged. Sometimes the migraine lasts for days and when it finishes I want to make up for lost time. I want to function. And somehow somehow I just can't. For a day or more after a severe migraine, I feel like I'm working through a mental fog, one so heavy that even routine tasks take on an otherworldly quality. Continue reading...
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