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I've had an idea for part of a story I'm working on and want to make sure I'm addressing something fairly. I am profoundly fortunate to be un-prone to even regular headaches, much less migraines.
From what I'm reading, the experience of migraines is quite a spectrum, but across the board it's pretty frustrating to have then lumped in with "bad headaches". So my questions is, if you feel like sharing, anecdotes of how migraines attack (slowly or quickly) and what sorts of life-events they can sideline. I want to get a sense of how migraines can interfere with a life. And also, if something extreme happened in the middle of one of these terrible episodes, something that would require you to move and make decisions, can you guess how it would be? Can you imagine if you absolutely had to do things anyway, how it might affect you?
(And please don't tell me to Google it. I am. What I'm looking for in this forum is writerly-types to share what insights they are willing to, with the kind of angle and detail that they intuit a writer might find useful.)
From what I'm reading, the experience of migraines is quite a spectrum, but across the board it's pretty frustrating to have then lumped in with "bad headaches". So my questions is, if you feel like sharing, anecdotes of how migraines attack (slowly or quickly) and what sorts of life-events they can sideline. I want to get a sense of how migraines can interfere with a life. And also, if something extreme happened in the middle of one of these terrible episodes, something that would require you to move and make decisions, can you guess how it would be? Can you imagine if you absolutely had to do things anyway, how it might affect you?
(And please don't tell me to Google it. I am. What I'm looking for in this forum is writerly-types to share what insights they are willing to, with the kind of angle and detail that they intuit a writer might find useful.)
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