Patients rarely describe their symptoms using terms like photophobia, paraesthesia or visual aura.
Instead, they tell us what they actually feel!
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📚 Medical Terminology → Patient Language
🤕 Unilateral headache — однобічний головний біль
🗣 “It only hurts on one side of my head.”
💓 Throbbing / pulsating pain — пульсуючий біль
🗣 “It feels like my head is pounding with every heartbeat.”
💡 Photophobia — світлобоязнь
🗣 “Bright lights make the pain much worse.”
🔊 Phonophobia — підвищена чутливість до звуків
🗣 “Even normal sounds seem unbearably loud.”
🤢 Nausea — нудота
🗣 “I feel like I'm going to throw up.”
👁️ Visual aura — зорова аура
🗣 “I start seeing strange patterns before the headache begins.”
✨ Photopsia — спалахи світла в полі зору
🗣 “I keep seeing flashing lights, even when I close my eyes.”
〰️ Scintillating scotoma — мерехтлива скотома
🗣 “There's a shimmering zigzag shape in my vision, and I can't see properly through it.”
🫳 Paraesthesia — парестезія
🗣 “I get pins and needles in my hand and around my mouth.”
🌫️ Brain fog / Cognitive difficulties — когнітивні труднощі
🗣 “I can't think clearly or concentrate on anything.”
😴 Postdrome — постдромальний період
🗣 “Even after the headache goes away, I feel completely drained.”
🎯 Migraine trigger — тригер мігрені
🗣 “I often get these headaches when I haven't slept properly.”
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