Do you get frequent migraines?

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I'm wondering if getting frequent migraines (and/or more intense ones) are a common symptom of being on the autism spectrum? As I'm a middle-aged Gen X-er, but can recall as a kid back in the 80s getting migraines, and my family couldn't figure out "what was wrong with him" and I'm not just talking about the headaches (of course, sigh).

I remember at that time, when I had a paper route, getting irritated by the newsprint which would exacerbate my migraine and nausea, to the point where I even vomited, or dry-heaved. It happened when I was folding ad fliers into the main papers, b/c they didn't arrive at my house in that form. My dad said that if the symptoms continued, he'd have to have my paper route terminated, and that really upset me so I tried hard to suppress it (and managed to, but it wasn't pleasant).

I don't get them as often now, because I'm not in a stressful situation compared to before...so, in hindsight, I believe a good deal of it was from bullying or not knowing "what was wrong with me" (which turned into a vicious circle), as well as C-PTSD from emotional abuse. I also surmised that some of it was due to poor posture from slumping, as the migraines tended to accompany upper left back pain. It was clear that I kept a lot of bottled-up tension in a certain area of my body, which manifested into migraines. And thirdly, I suspect that some of it was due to what NTs would call "over-analyzing" certain intuitive thought processes more analytically, just in a desperate bid to fit in. But like the late autism advocate Marc Segar once said, "Autistic people have to learn scientifically what non-austistic people already know intuitively."

Never have had a migraine.

I have cluster headaches. I hope you feel better soon

I woke up with migraines sometimes as a kid & teen. I think the main cause was being stressed by going to school since I mostly only had them when I woke up to get ready for school & they usually got better after my parents decided to let me miss school & I went back to sleep. For me the main symptom is a bad headache.

I seldom get migraines after graduating high-school but I sometimes get sinus headches. I sometimes had sinus headaches as a kid & teen as well but the migraines were more frequent. I had chronic allergies & sinus issues my whole life. My docs insist that my sinus headaches are migraines but with my sinus headaches I have more nasal problems.

My grandma had migraines sometimes but she also had nausea & would vomit if she didn't take a med after the headache started. She was NT.

I get it very occasionally. Never figured any reason before it just disappeared again. Probably something to do with hormone fluctuations.

My so far, most of my headaches are actually headaches from an unmanageable chronic rhinitis, an untreated dental abscess, caffeine withdrawal (all I have to do is to have enough caffeine in my system for longer than a 2 days, then quit by the third day), and menstrual migraines because hormones.

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If I take a gram of paracetamol within 5 minutes of an aura starting I don't get a headache, but I have to close my eyes for 10 minutes before I can see properly.

Most of my life I had one or two auras a year.
I started taking meds for it about 3 years ago when frequency increased to several a month.
Propranolol worked for a year, then I switched my BP medication to Candesartan and started titrating up.
I'm still getting at least weekly auras.
I'll have to ask what to try next.

Mine seem to be usually triggered by rapid changes in UV intensity

I get bad headaches sometimes. I'm not sure what the difference of a migraine is and how it feels different to these. The ones I get seem bad, I wake up to them and get increasingly worse during the day. It seems to have something to do with weather or muscle tension, but I'm not sure. I take painkiller or lie in bed.