| 24-Hr MQoLQ Domains |
24-Hr MQoLQ Items |
Example Quotes |
| Migraine symptoms |
Have increased sensitivity to light or sound |
002–006: I would say it is, um, over – an overload on your senses, um, light hurts, sound hurts |
| 002–018: It's beyond light sensitivity, it's even almost having your eyes open at that point that it hurts. Yeah, almost any kind of light, but bright light is almost is in – is intolerable |
| Have nausea |
002–019: The ones that last longer, those are the ones where I'm nauseated |
| 003–006: And, of course, they make me feel nauseated |
| Have throbbing head pain |
002–019: Just the pounding on my head, my vision gets kind of blurry when it's really bad |
| 003–010: The pain, excruciating painful throbbing in the forehead region |
| Feelings/concerns |
Feel upset about having migraine headaches |
003–001: I think when I feel one coming on I get so anxious and stressed, because I start thinking of all the things I need to do and how am I going to do this if I don't feel good |
| 003–006: I just kind of want to cry sometimes, because it does – I mean if they're bad enough it takes me out of life |
| Feel physically uncomfortable |
003–006: I just feel for 2 or 3 days after I have a really bad one – and I don't have strength, I mean I just feel so tired. My eyes hurt, you know, and everything is just – you feel drained, I guess, like you've been sick, but it just takes everything out of you |
| 003–010: I'm feeling like I'm – feel like the – the hangover after drinking to where you just can't keep nothing down. You do not want to look at food, you do not want to look at nothing besides the blackness of your eyelids because it's like you feel like you're on a rollercoaster, you're going up and then you go down |
| Feel concerned that your migraine medication wouldn't relieve your migraine headache symptoms |
003–006: I can take a whole lot of things sometimes, and I don't get relief. So, I think that the whole time that I have a headache I just am waiting on the relief of it and it's not very often that I get it |
| Work functioning |
Do normal everyday work (job outside the home, schoolwork, housework) |
002–001: Well, for my job, I'm on the computer and phone all day, so if I have a migraine I'm not going to work |
| 003–009: Sometimes there's been occasions where I've had to miss school, work, whatever it was, um, because of the pain |
| Stay alert |
002–006: If someone is asking me a question, uh, I have a difficult time putting the information together, and I'll give you an example. Uh, so, uh, after work I'm going to go here, can you pick me up and then can we go to the store? To put those answers together should be a very, very simple and brief. But to think about that with the pain going on and the sensors being overloaded, it's – it's almost like I can't say it, can't do it |
| 003–003: You can't really even get yourself to think straight sometimes because you're just so absorbed with the throbbing and all of it |
| 003–006: I can't – you could be asking me a question and I wouldn't – I'd be like – you know, my eyes hurt, like I can't – I don't even know what you're saying. I mean, but I do know what you're saying, it's just trying to find the thoughts |
| Operate machinery or a motor vehicle (including home appliances and office equipment). |
002–018: I wouldn't be able to go outside, um, or drive on a day like this and the sun like this and actually driving it any – at any point it's just excruciating, so |
| 002–020: It's really hard to do, I mean I was driving home the other day and it was really hard to still like even open my eyes and drive. Um, so I tend to shut down and do nothing, uh, yeah |
| Social functioning |
Enjoy life |
002–018: During them [migraine] see, I don't enjoy anything when I have them |
| 003–006: I mean it's the pain, but it's also just like I said, missing out on life, I mean nobody has time to stop and take a 5-hour nap in the middle of the day, you know? And it could be on days that my kid had a party at school or things that I want to be able to be there for, and unless I go feeling sick or with an awful headache, then I just can't |
| Interactions with people who are close to you |
002–006: My son comes in and he's telling me all about his day and my other son will come in and he's fixing himself something to eat and then, uh, my wife would come home, talk about her day and the dog barks in the middle. Uh, all of those perfectly normal things happen, uh, but all those together it's too much for me to, uh, process out, so that all contributes to. I'll either – my family will pick up on when I have a headache and they will keep it – keep things down or I'll just remove myself to – to get away from it |
| 003–009: When you don't feel well and you have a – you know, we're going out to dinner or something like that with your husband or friends or whoever and then it's, well, I don't feel well, so I'm just going to sit there or [laughs], you know, I don't feel up to it, so I don't want to go. I think that does impact your relationships with people when – when you're not able to be yourself or even go to an event with them |
| Interactions with other people |
002–019: It's hard for me to concentrate and to have like a conversation, you know, with someone else |
| 003–003: You don't want to go out. You don't want to converse with people |
| Energy/vitality |
Energy level |
002–019: Definitely, when I have a migraine it's like I have no energy. Like I'll just lay on the couch or, you know, like I can't do anything |
| 003–001: Typically I'm a pretty energetic person if I feel okay, but if I have a migraine then it's just ugh, you just feel like a sloth |
| Ability to have a good night's sleep |
002–001: 002–001: It can, if I have one going to bed, uh, I can have a hard time getting to sleep. And sometimes I'll wake up because of them, like when I wake up in the morning, I'll wake up like an hour earlier than my alarm goes off just because my head is killing me |
| 003–010: Insomnia, I'm not able to sleep, I don't get – because I'm not having to sleep, you know, it messes with your sleep pattern because you're in pain |
| Mood |
002–006: It does very much affect my mood. To take me from being in, uh, a happy, outgoing mood to being very critical, very short-tempered, very – I, uh, feel like I need to be secluded or moved away from everybody. 003–001: Obviously, it makes you cranky, and that's just not my nature, so I hate when I'm like that, you know, it just kind of pisses me off |
| 003–009: I mean I'm just not the same person, I'm just not – um, well, you're just not happy, you're just – you don't feel well |
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