"It leaves my brain feeling like a wrung out washrag."(01 of10)
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"I describe it like something or someone standing on a manhole cover pressing down on my head creating a vice around my head."(02 of10)
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"Like a hot dull nail being hammered into the right side of my head just above the temple."(03 of10)
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"It feels like I'm pushing my head against a pallet of bricks."(04 of10)
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"Migraines feel as if my brain is being rhythmically pounded by a boxer wearing gloves, pummeling with all their might, over and over and over."(05 of10)
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"It feels like someone has put a bowling ball on my eye and is pressing on it."(06 of10)
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"Like the pounding of a drum inside my head."(07 of10)
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"Like an ice pick that jabs at my head."(08 of10)
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"It's like a tire pump constantly filling up a balloon of agony that never pops, but pulsates for hours on end."(09 of10)
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"The only way I can describe it is that it's as if my brain has swollen and it's trying to push through my skull."(10 of10)