My mother always got them and she would go into a very dark room and just stay there until they passed. She swore she could even hear people walking on the carpet with slippers on and it would increase the banging! I was always afraid that I would follow in her footsteps and get them too, but I think I only ever had one headache that began to resemble what she went through. I know that for me headaches were always a "time of the month" thing. First I'd get a bad headache and then the next day my period would come. I do believe a lot of headaches are tied to hormones. I work for an eye doctor and we see a lot of people who really think they are going blind when they have a migraine. Really bad migraines can do some scary things to a person's vision. You have gotten some excellent advice so far and I hope that you might be able to find some medication that helps. (((hugs)))