> Perhaps, in view of all this, you will think it
>strange that I claim to never get headaches.
>However, I think of my migraine phase as more like a
>temporary illness or condition I had many years ago.
>I never took any sort of medicine for them.

I've had two migraines, one in junior high and one in college. They both just came on suddenly (the one in junior high I had spots in front of my eyes for about an hour before the actual onset, but at the time I didn't know that was a symptom of an oncoming migraine, so the actual headache part was still "without warning" to me.) The one in college was the worse of the two, as I had to walk all the way back across campus with my head feeling like it was going to explode before I could crawl into bed and hide. I also felt like I was going to throw up several times during the night, and although I never did, having to crawl out of bed and down the hall to the communal bathroom was agony.

I think my family still thinks I had two migraines in junior high, but the fact is I faked the second one, because I hated school and I'd been sent home when I had the first (real) one so it looked like a good excuse.

Now, I get cluster headaches. I'll go a week where I get a headache every single day, then I'll go for quite some time without getting one. A lot of times I get very mild headaches towards the end of the day, which usually don't even warrant taking anything. These I think are eyestrain headaches, since I spend all of my working time staring at a computer monitor and about three quarters of my free time doing the same thing. But I think I've finally found what works best for me for my cluster headaches--hay fever medication. Basically, Tylenol and a decongestant. Apparently these headaches are caused by allergies I didn't even know I had.

But since that wasn't a choice in the poll, I chose Excedrin (tylenol, aspirin, caffine mix) since that's what is currently in my medicine cabinet.

-- Dave