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Great, just great... Let's talk about it:

Migraine is a neurological disease that can cause a wide range of symptoms during an attack. The most commonly thought of symptom is headache. [...]

Usually migraine causes episodes of severe or moderate headache (which is often one-sided and pulsating -and that's I suppose it's the etymological origin of the word: from the Greek hemicrania, "half head") lasting from several hours to three days, accompanied by gastrointestinal upsets, such as nausea and vomiting, and a heightened sensitivity to bright lights (photophobia) and noise (phonophobia).

Defining severity of pain. The International Headache Society defines intensity of pain on a verbal 4 point scale:

0 no pain
1 mild pain 'does not interfere with usual activities'
2 moderate pain 'inhibits, but does not wholly prevent usual activities'
3 severe pain 'prevents all activities'

(from Wikipedia: migraine)

Well, let's just said that I spent all Sunday with a mild and moderate pain, I think it started at morning as mild and was increasing all afternoon till a moderate pain. And obviously that same night I woke up with a grade 3, severe pain, that lasted around 2 hours after I take some pills and put a cold&wet cloth on my forehead. The next day I arrived late to my job (well not really late because I can arrive whenever I want, I just need to do four hours but I usually arrive betwen 9 and 9:30) and I suffered all morning a moderate pain that remained till evening, what a fucked day, really. All Tuesday morning I had a mild pain and at least today I'm alright.

And maybe you are wondering how I know I have migraine, well for once my doctor told me three years ago when I had my first migraine (until that time I inly suffered tensional headaches). Just look at the symptoms of the migraine without aurea:

Typical characteristics of the headache are unilateral location, pulsating quality, moderate or severe intensity, aggravation by routine physical activity and association with nausea and/or photophobia and phonophobia. In order to diagnose migraine without aura, there must have been at least five attacks not attributable to another cause that fulfill the following criteria:

1. Headache attacks lasting 4-72 hours when untreated Mmmm I've never wanted to prove how long will it last without any treatment, so I really don't know, but you know... 2 hours treated...
2. At least two of the following characteristics:

Unilateral location check
Pulsating quality check
Moderate or severe pain intensity check
Aggravation by or causing avoidance of routine physical activity mmmm... not sure

3. During the headache there must be at least one of the following associated symptom clusters: