What different types of migraines are there?
Common migraines are headaches accompanied by symptoms such as nausea, without visual or other neurologic changes. The pain may feel as though it radiates FROM a specific point, sometimes behind the eye, for which reason it can be confused with eye pain. Classic migraines share all of the characteristics of common migraine with the additional defining feature of neurologic changes preceding or accompanying the headache, including visual changes and sensory or motor disturbances such as tingling in the arm or muscle weakness. Complicated migraines are much less common and are accompanied by various neurologic changes including paralysis of the eye, paralysis of the body in one side, more widespread loss of sensation over one side of the body, and memory loss. There can additionally be changes in behavior and loss of the ability to read and write. These more profound disturbances are distinguished FROM similar changes seen in stroke by their transient nature. Complicated migraines may or
