Sorry, my suggestion obviously won't work if you don't get any warnings Sorcha.

Perhaps mine are weird, but I sometimes know I'm getting one even before I get the blind spot with surrounding shiney lights and patterns. My first symptoms before the aura are sometimes extreme sensitivity to smell and taste, a change in the taste of my saliva, a sensitivity to light and sometimes my nose gets cold.

I vividly remember my first one, at age 15, which my mother then termed a bilious attack?

When I was in my early 20's the doctor I had at the time, told me that there was nothing wrong with me, that it was all in my head (yeah, right!) and if I just got up, opened my curtains and cleaned up my apartment, I'd be right as rain.

That particular episode lasted almost a week and I recall stopping my car on the highway out to my Mother's house to do my laundry, as the doctor ordered, and vomiting out the door two or three times along the way. I also found out that when you puke up alkaseltzer, it still fizzes up to 1/2 hour after drinking it.