Indeed....I hate when people say "just pop a pill and carry on".
When I get a migraine I am completely destroyed for 3-5 days...I can't move, I can't function, I can't eat or drink, I simply lay in bed with a cold towel on my head, in darkness and vomit...I get a headache but that is nothing...the worse part is simply feeling so unwell you cannot do anything but try and sleep and wait for it to go. The weird blinding lights are very strange but that was always my first symptom it was coming so I was thankful for that since I could then prepare.
Suicidal headaches is what they are...I missed the birth of my daughter because I was having a migraine...thankfully my wife knew how bad I was and told the rest of the family to leave me alone to suffer as they were trying to get me out of bed...
Thankfully, I have not had one in 3 years...they just disappeared...they say it can come and go but I got my first one when I was 35...had them for 2 years with one every two weeks then they just stopped.
EVERYBODY who gets proper migraines has my deepest empathy...they were by far the worst thing I have ever suffered in my life.
The usual cure docs like to offer is betablockers and for a while it did calm down my frequency of them but then I tried an older betablocker called Pziofen and that worked a lot better!
Rizatripans also work to keep one under control if you feel one coming on, I got these just before they stopped but they did reduce the awfulness of them...but if you take too many too frequently they can actually bring on migraines.