..no I'm not talking about mere headaches...

Got my first 'full on' migraine tonight... started in the evening & very rapidly got worse... these things are terrible!

In a rather short amount of time I hit a point where light with my eyes closed, made me flinch (I went into a dark room, it was the only place I could escape the light in the house) and then they were planning to go out & started spraying perfume shit around & I think that was the last straw for the whole thing, very shortly after that my head hurt so bad I was nauseated, light hurt, smell really hurt my head, and then the waterworks started... not sobbing or even your normal 'crying' tears but my tear glands opened right up & it was a river of them down my face...

Holy fuck I hope I never have to experience pain like that again.

Anybody else here get migraines? If you do, what are the causes? I can usually tell with "just a headache" whether I need to drink water, turn out the lights, etc by where the headache is located... but migraines are new to me..