I used to get severe headaches after a migraine aura which started when I was 16.
Second event happened 1 month later, and the headache was worse than the first.
Third episode was 2 months later and the headache was worse again.
Ditto the fourth and fifth episodes at 4 and 8 month intervals
The fifth episode had me looking through a severe mist for over a couple of days after with a mega headache that only lasted a few hours..
I went to the company mediic after the first episode, and he didn't believe me about the aura.
I was really dreading the sixth episode as the time approached, and it came ons Saturday morning.
I ended up just relaxing and waiting for the process to go through it's cycle of aura, then headache, but the headache didn't come.
Since this sixth episode, the migraines come at randon times, even when I don't think I am overly stressed.
I found out that with me the episodes come when I am stressed, or even after a stressful event, but not always.
I usually get a feeling of mild euphoria before the aura starts out as a fuzzy spot in the centre of my vision.
It then grows out into an expanding arc of white zig-zagging light until it travels beyond my field of vision. Then the headaches used to come.
This arc is usually about 270 to 300 degrees, but never a full circle of light.
It usually travels to the top right of my field of vision. Only once did it go to the top left.
If I relax and take a few deep breaths as soon as I detect the srtart of the visual disturbance, It goes away.
Once the disturbance grows to a diameter of about 25mm, it just goes through it's cycle of visual disturbance no matter what I do.
The visual disturbance phase lasts for about 1.5 to 2 hours, and you know that it is still there when it is out of your field of vision.
I have had a period of about 15 years without an episode, and a month where I had four episodes.