SCIENCE
Migraine and Postdrome

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