Physical activity
Physical activity worsens the headache, but physical exercise may have a prophylactic role in the attacks. Migraine attacks last from 4 hours up to 3 days in severe and untreated cases. The frequency of attacks varies among the patients; some patients may have few migraine attacks throughout their lifetime, and others may have several per week. Most patients have two or three migraine attacks per month.
After the attack, the patient enters the postdrome stage that lasts for one day. In this stage, the patient:
- feels tired, exhausted, or confused
- have muscle pain or weakness
- experience mood changes (unusually happy and euphoric or depressed)
Migraine symptoms vary among the patients; some patients may have an aura (classic migraine), some of them may not experience it (common migraine), and others may have an aural stage only without migraine (silent migraine).
- In addition to the common, classic, and silent types of migraine, there are other variants of migraine: