This right here.
I’ve had migraines as long as I can remember. At least as far back as 5 years old. And I’ve never once seen an aura. What I do get is a terrible, cloyingly sweet scent. It starts out like artificial grape flavoring, then progresses on to burnt rubber as the pain in my eyes starts. I also get auditory hallucinations. I have had tinnitus at least as long as I’ve had migraines, and when I get a migraine, the first sign before the pain is usually a change from the background hiss to a foreground roar like standing under a waterfall, or sometimes it sounds like a big CRT’s whine turned up to the level of a train.
I’ve noticed lately though that before the tinnitus sets in, I sometimes hallucinate tapping/snapping noises. I used to mistake them for the building settling, or someone knocking on something, but I recently have had a few migraines where I heard them and asked people around me if they heard any of those noises, and they said they didn’t.
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