Thanks all! OMG, chocolate as a trigger? I hope it wasn't the brownies!!! What would life be without chocolate?! Glad I didn't try the heat pack on my neck last night. I thought maybe neck tension was the trigger, but that would have been exactly the wrong thing to do.

I'm sure I'll have more questions. The headache was not gone this morning. Still there as a dull all-round pressure + some throbbing on the right side just above where forehead meets temple. Not so intense that I took anything for it, though, and since the aura has cleared and I was running late I drove to work (can't take the day off today because I've got an oral exam scheduled and today is his last chance for the course to count as completed in the Fall term). But I will call the doctor. As it happens, he gets migraines too. I called him when the first aura struck and he kept me on the phone for a few minutes asking how it was developing, just so he could be sure that's what it was. Then he called back a while later to hear if a headache had followed. It hadn't then, but did this time. He said I should call back if my migraines escalated or became frequent, so I will. (BTW, don't let anybody fool you that the service is bad under national health!)

Hmmm. throb moved to left side now. Interesting. Oh well. Back to work. Co-examiner here any minute to talk about the pre-oral grade. Sadly it won't be a good one. The paper may just squeek out a pass.