I was pretty much a textbook case of how chronic daily migraine tends to develop.
A migraine with aura sufferer who might experience infrequent migraines will have a period where they will have no headaches or migraines whatsoever. This may last several years and they are cruelly given the illusion (much to their elation) that the unpredictable days of internal thunder and lightning rendering you completely incoherent lie firmly in the past. Then by some nasty twist of fate what follows is far worse than episodic migraine could ever be, to the extent that if I could swap I would take them back in an instant.
Chronic daily migraine varies with intensity. There are times when to many intents and purposes you can still function, the simplest of tasks requires a bit of extra effort but these times are always preferred to what lies at the other end of the scale. At their worst and with no hint of melodrama, during an aggressive migraine attack the simplest of task becomes an impossibility and it feels like somebody is draining the very essence of life from you.
