I have suffered with migraines since I was 14.

It begins with my vision, white spots and near blindness. Then the pain arrives. My tongue swells, my hands go numb, and I am incapacitated for hours, sometimes up to 2 days.

 When I was 14, the first one happened in school. The white spots came. I ran home to tell my Dad. He rushed me into the hospital. The Doctor thought I was having a stroke. I had a spinal tap, and remained in the hospital for 5 days.

The last one I can remember that was intolerable was when my son was 4. I crawled to the phone and called my husband sobbing, I couldn't take care of my child...it hurt to even be.  He took me to the ER where I was given IV Demerol, which didn't even touch the pain.

The pain is worse than child birth.

I vomit, can not stay still. Sometimes it hurts so bad tears just roll down my face, and you can't get away from it. After having a severe migraine I actually live in fear as to when it will return.

My migraines are very random. Sometimes I can go years without any symptoms. Sometimes the vision problems start and I take 1 ibuprofen and 1 Tylenol, curl up in a ball and pray it will subside.

 More than 28 million Americans

 — three times more women than men — suffer from migraine headaches, a type of headache that's often severe. Although any head pain can be miserable, a migraine headache is often disabling. In some cases, these painful headaches are preceded or accompanied by a sensory warning sign (aura), such as flashes of light, blind spots or tingling in your arm or leg.

A migraine headache is also often accompanied by other signs and symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Migraine pain can be excruciating and may incapacitate you for hours or even days.

 Headaches are one of the most common reasons people seek medical help.

Almost everyone has had a headache at one point in his or her life. Although some headaches are a signal of a serious underlying illness—such as a tumor, aneurysm (ballooning of a blood vessel), or other illness—recurrent headaches more often occur without any underlying disease present.

I have gotten up twice this week with the visual problems that come before my migraines.

 The cause of them has never been diagnoised.

 So I'm waiting.....

And I'm scared.