The best way to describe a migraine is that it's a sick headache so that you not only have the pain and throbbing but also nausea, vomiting, light and noise sensitivity, dizziness and irritability. The average length of time is between 8 and 24 hours. Some people can have them for days though. In reality, I think there's a number of reasons. I think women get more headaches because of hormones.
Migraine begins oftentimes in childhood.
The average age of onset of migraines in little girls is 11 or 12, which correlates with when they first get hormones kicking in. Between 5 and 15 of children have migraines. A tension type headache tends to be more of a band around the head and doesn't have all those other symptoms that we talked about before. Sometimes a headache can be maintained or caused by the medicine you take. If you take medicine, analgesics too often, the medicine itself can cause a headache because you're using it too much.