New to all of this and need advice please?

[popit]

I have suffered from Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertention for 14 years and I have now been told that I'm suffering from Complex Migraines. What are they and how can I be diagnosed without any testing?

[rosianna]

have you been down to the migraine centre to see the specialists there??

they will beable to explain it to you and go thru your treatment options.

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Complex migraines from my experience is a term used when the Dr you see probably isn't able to identify which migraine type you have. You have probably described symptoms that go beyond migraine with/without aura.

Go with Rosianna's advice - take a trip to NMC or if that's not possible to a headache - neurologist who should be able to give you a more specific diagnosis of what migraine type you have.

Migraine diagnosis are based on your medical history and your own description of them to a specialist: there is no test that will show you have migraine, only tests that generally rule out other illnesses that may cause similar symptoms. Migraine is a pretty elusive neurological disease!

Good luck!