Other forms of migraine. In
addition to classic and common, migraine headache
can take several other forms:
Patients with hemiplegic migraine have
temporary paralysis on one side of the body, a
condition known as hemiplegia. Some people may
experience vision problems and vertigo - a feeling
that the world is spinning. These symptoms begin 10
to 90 minutes before the onset of headache pain.
In ophthalmoplegic migraine, the pain is
around the eye and is associated with a droopy
eyelid, double vision, and other problems with
vision.
Basilar artery migraine involves a
disturbance of a major brain artery at the base of
the brain. Preheadache symptoms include vertigo,
double vision, and poor muscular coordination. This
type of migraine occurs primarily in adolescent and
young adult women and is often associated with the
menstrual cycle.
Benign exertional headache is brought on
by running, lifting, coughing, sneezing, or bending.
The headache begins at the onset of activity, and
pain rarely lasts more than several minutes.
Status migrainosus is a rare and severe
type of migraine that can last 72 hours or longer.
The pain and nausea are so intense that people who
have this type of headache must be hospitalized. The
use of certain drugs can trigger status migrainosus.
Neurologists report that many of their status
migrainosus patients were depressed and anxious
before they experienced headache attacks.
Headache-free migraine is characterized by
such migraine symptoms as visual problems, nausea,
vomiting, constipation, or diarrhea. Patients,
however, do not experience head pain. Headache
specialists have suggested that unexplained pain in
a particular part of the body, fever, and dizziness
could also be possible types of headache-free
migraine.
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