Context: It is the most piercing pain , all in the head , somehow feeling like an intolerable whistle focused and drilling at speed into your brain . It came on so suddenly last night that I almost vomited . The world shrank to a blinkered pinhole and I zoned out so completely that I only came back to reality twenty minutes after taking two Ibuprofen , and numbing the top - notes of the pain .
Question: Why was I in so much pain that day ?
Option 0: I was having a hole drilled in my skull .
Option 1: I was sick with the flu and had a sore throat .
Option 2: I was experiencing a bad migraine .
Option 3: None of the above choices .
Answer: 2