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People who suffer regularly from migraine headaches can probably give you a list of their migraine symptoms without even needing to think much about it. This is because each person tends to have their own individual manifestation of symptoms that occur each time they get the headache. The symptoms include some that actually warn that the headache is coming, and of course those that accompany the head pain when it finally arrives. Almost all these individual traits come from a larger “pool” of symptoms that seem to apply as a whole to migraines.

Migraine research has shown that about twenty percent of those who have this illness get a specific cluster of precursor symptoms that are lumped together and are known as the “aura.” While most people think of the aura as manifesting visually, with flashes of light or blind spots, it is actually a neurological phenomenon that can also give the migraine patient hallucinations of smell or sound, and can affect their speech and concentration. The aura is a grouping of migraine symptoms that precede some headaches by perhaps an hour or so.

Even if the person doesn’t experience an aura, their chronic migraines will manifest other types of recurring symptoms. They could find themselves slowly becoming extra sensitive to smells around them, to sounds or to temperature, for example. But the most common of all the migraine symptoms is the headache itself, which usually concentrates on one side of the head, centering on the temple. It isn’t always the same side of the head either, but can alternate between attacks. Nor is it confined to the temple area for everyone; it can extend itself to surround the eyes, or move to the back of the head.

While this long list of symptoms makes them appear so wildly divergent and even unrelated, there is an underlying migraine connection to all of them. This is because a migraine is more than “just” a headache; it is a genetically-based disease that activates the person’s nerves to become oversensitive, resulting in migraine symptoms that can affect virtually any part of their body. So you can have a person with a “silent migraine,” who has all the visual effects of the aura but no headache, or you can have a person who suffers the headache and never has the visual manifestations. Yet they, and others with completely different symptoms, all have the underlying migraine in common.

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