Within ten minutes, my head was filled with bliss. I felt a complete relaxation and relief in my head and throughout my whole body. In my experience, migraines just don't go away instantly like that. In addition to a throbbing or pounding pain, migraine sufferers also experience nausea, extreme sensitivity to light and noise, and sometimes dizziness or lightheadedness. A migraine is felt as an intense pulsating pain at the temples, or behind the eyes or ears.
Migraines are vascular headaches, which involve the blood vessels in the brain.
According to a leading theory, stress or some other trigger causes the blood vessels leading to the brain to be restricted. As a result, there is a decrease in the oxygen supply to the brain. In response, the blood vessels in the brain become dilated and this dilation spreads to the surface blood vessels causing the headache to occur. In addition to a throbbing or pounding pain on one side of the head, migraine sufferers also experience nausea, extreme sensitivity to light and noise, and sometimes dizziness or lightheadedness. The pain is aggravated by activity.