I have auras like a lightening bolt lasts 20 minutes. I may or may not get the headache. Usually I get blurry vision and feel yucky. I get them maybe twice a month.

I can get an aura, and usually within15 to 30 minutes the pain starts. If I am driving I have to pull over and wait for it to go away.

I used to get the aura along with verbal difficulties thought I was having a stroke. Used to scare the the hell out of me. Then the headache that would follow would last for days and was horrible

Pertaining to the visual auras, a neurologist I saw advised me to chew an aspirin when the visual aura started and it would stop the aura. I tried it and it worked for me.

I usually drop off into a deep sleep sitting up and then wake up feeling bad. I get visual aura (scintillating scotoma) as well. Running to the bathroom - not fun. I can't stand light or noise and get irritable or depressed because I can't think straight and sometimes get very clumsy and tend to drop things. The headache pain usually hits about 20 minutes later. I am in the middle of this right now and am feeling despondent because I only had one decent day between this and the last one. :'(