Aura phase may occur 20 minutes to one hour before the headache phase or right as it begins. An aura consists of nerve-related symptoms that can affect your vision, senses and speech. You may have one or more symptoms during an aura. Each symptom develops gradually, lasts from five minutes to one hour, and then goes completely away. The most common aura symptoms are visual. You may have one or more of the following aura symptoms listed below. 

•  Visual symptoms – sensitivity to light, bright spots or zigzag lines, sparkling moving figures, blind spots, blurred vision and distorted objects

• Sensory symptoms – sensitivity to smells and sound; tingling or numbness that stays in one place or spreads across one side of your body and face 

• Speech symptoms – cannot speak normally

• Head pain that typically lasts four to 72 hours. (Your headache may last less time if your medication is effective).
• Throbbing and pulsating pain that usually varies from moderate to severe intensity
• Pain in the front sides of the head; (the headache is usually one-sided in older teenagers and adults and on both sides in young children)
• Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea
• Headache that gets worse with ordinary activity such as walking and climbing stairs
• Sensitive to light, sound, smells or touch

• Difficulty concentrating and thinking
• Muscle weakness and aching
• Food cravings or loss of appetite
• Feelings of euphoria or hyperactive behavior