I am curious!
Hi Folks! I am very curious about the side of the head that people get their most of their migraines. You see, I get most of mine on the left side of my head, but two friends of mine say they get most of theirs on the right side. I wonder why it is that way, and what it may mean. So, how about it? Where do you get your pain? Thanks! Just interested! Sue, in New York
My pain is always on the left side of my head. ...Tina "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars" --Emerson
Hi Sue... I get my migraines on both sides. If today its on the right, tomorrow its on the left. It always rotates. It's never on the same side for 2 migraines in a row. Very strange... Karen...also in NY
My migraines are rarely one-sided, it usually encompasses my entire head. Today it's been awful, it's raining. Kelsey New Orleans ps- How many of you have suffered a migraine related stroke? Any way to know how at-risk you are? ____ "Just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last." Vanessa Williams
For me, 50% are on the right side, 30% are on the left side, and 20% are on both sides at the same time. There's no real pattern of whether they start in the base of my skull, my temple, or my eye. The trend is towards fewer on the left side and more on both sides. Some migraines switch sides, sometimes more than once during the episode. Jeff
My migraines are mainly right sided. Once in a great while they spread to the back of my entire head, but I have never felt any sort of pain whatsoever on the left front side of my head. I have daily headaches in addition to the bouts of migraines and it is difficult to describe sometimes, but I sort of have a right sided tension headache. It is definitely not a migraine, but it is still one-sided. I imagine the difference in where you feel the pain has to do with the blood flow and what vessel is being affected. And, from what I understand the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. The possibility of stroke scares me sometimes as my grandfather on my dad's side of the family died of stroke and I also have heart disease in my family. Some of the migraines I get are very scary and I have often said to myself that some are so bad it is a wonder that I don't take a stroke. The last few bad ones I have had sent my blood pressure sky rocketing and I was restricted from taking Imitrex, Amerge or any of those types of drugs. They don't really help me anyway. The only thing that gives me some copeability is Fiorinal with Codeine, but I have to be at home if I take it as it makes me feel weird. Diann
I normally get migraines on the left side if they start when I am awake. If they start overnight they are often right-sided, and much worse, that is with numbness of my hands (and sometimes face and feet), speech/understanding problems and nausea. I very rarely get these symptoms (including nausea) with left-sided migraines. Also the ones I wake up with are much more difficult to relieve with any medication. I can carry on with life with left sided ones, whereas right-sided ones seem like a totally different illness. mairin
Mine are always on the left side, behind the eye, temple. (for 33 years!) My sinuses are effected & I get a pain up from my left shoulder to my neck also. But when I started having the daily headaches last summer they were the whole back of my head then would go up like my head would blow off (I wish). Nothing helped these & most times laying down made it worse & many days they did turn into the left sided migraine. ~Lyn~
Mine are on the left. Melody
Most of mine are left sided. Some will switch sides during the headache. The rare one that starts and stays on the right is harder to deal with. ~~~The conventional wisdom and accepted facts are dead wrong! ~~~Don't go for second best, it's never good enough!
Hi everybody, I get always pain on the left side too. Regards, Maryline
I get most of my migraines on the left side of my head, in the eye and down the neck, I usually wake up with this kind of migraine. I have had a few of my right side. I also get them on the top of my head, it feels like I have been hit over the head with a baseball bat. I have had three migraine effect the whole left side of my body, and collipsed from them and had to be rushed to the hospital. I have suffered from migraines all my life, and get 3 to 5 a week, I also have 2 children who get them, a son-33 and a daughter-26 and a granddaughter-almost 7, they all started about the age of two. My son started having epilisy attacts at the age of 14 and still gets migraines as well. We have a very rare genetic syndrome, so rare it is named after my daughter, there are only 3 of us with it, my family, and now my granddaughter, who I am adopting shows sign of having it as well. Gentle Dragon
In a message dated 99-03-29 23:07:53 EST, you write: << So, how about it? Where do you get your pain? My son Justin is the one with migraines, his pain is always in the middle of his forehead, but that is common in kids. Cathy/Justin
I tend to get both sides at the same time. How lucky can I get?!?