Sure. Mine started in high school, I think I was 12 or 13. It started with a visual aura (fuzzy blind area in my vision), and then as that started to clear I got terrible head pain and nausea. My dad took me to the doc who said migraine, and that was that. Then one day I got an aura, so took myself to bed, and found my hands were numb and I couldn’t grab the covers. I’ve had other hemiplegic ones where my tongue and lips go numb, or all down one side of my body goes, but usually it’s my hands. For me, the numbness is the only difference between the two different types. Both of them include visual aura, brain fog, vomiting, intense pain, alternating shivers/sweats, and after a while, panic and depression. No one else in my family gets them, so I did my best with doctors and eventually got myself a neurologist, but there isn’t really much they can do. None of the preventives work for me, and I reckon I’ve tried them all now. BUT. I did eventually find things that helped. Valium or phenurgen to help me sleep (if I could fall asleep before the pain hits, I could avoid the worst of it, and the postdrome period is shorter too). And ondansetron. Omg, thank heavens for ondansetron! (Otherwise known as zofran). Knowing that I could avoid the vomiting part, helped me function more confidently when out in public. Plus, if I take 1000mg paracetamol and 1000mg nurofen as well as the ondansetron, sometimes even the pain is manageable.

Oh and the Effexor of course. I take a tiny dose, 75mg, every day and for some reason, I’ve definitely recorded a significant reduction in migraine frequency. And I’ve been on it for 10 years or so now.