Migraines and cluster headaches

My mom gets real bad migraines, she also has back and neck issues causing her to have surgury. She had her thyroid removed when she was young too. Sometimes she has headaches for several days, I don't know how she can put up with them. I get migraines once or twice a month, I drive truck for work and I found that a bright light or flash from chrome, the sun, or head lights can trigger them for me. Usually my vision will get a little blurred in the corner of my eyes, can only see good if I look directly forward or close one eye. When this happens, my head ache is just starting so I take 4 IBP's and they seem to go away in an hour if I catch them soon enough.

I also seen on the TLC channel that a woman had severe migrains, she had to live in her basement to escape the bright light. She tried everything and nothing helped, had a doctor scan her heart, turns out she had a hole in her heart, got it fixed up and she was instantly better. I have been trying to get my mom to have this scan done (my wife is an heart-echo-tech at the hospital so she sees all kinds of stuff too) to see if this could be the case here too. My good friends dad also gets real bad migraines, he also has back pain issues. Not sure if this helps but I wish you the best!