So, I get migraines. Fortunately, only every couple months, and for 3-4 hours, usually. But during that time, it's curled into a ball, muttering, sometimes ba

So, I get migraines. Fortunately, only every couple months, and for 3-4 hours, usually. But during that time, it's curled into a ball, muttering, sometimes barfing from pain-level bad. I can suck it up and get basic things done, but I basically present as a crazy person in that time, because all of my mental energy is going into resisting the pain. I have different tricks like either accepting or rejecting the pain, or rolling around in my bed to distract myself from it. I struggle to explain to other people what that level of pain is like, and often think that while it looks horrible from the outside (and is!), I've been dealing with that level of pain on a regular basis for my whole life, and it's just somehow normalized. I guess what I'd say is it still hurts a lot, but it's not traumatic by any means anymore. I'm just used to it. I'm curious -- are there folks here who have migraines and some other experience with extreme pain? How do they compare? I was around when both of my kids were born and the description of the level of pain seemed pretty close to what I deal with multiple times a year.