Myths About Migraine
Is A Migraine Just Another Bad Headache?
According to the National Headache Foundation, 28 million Americans are affected by migraine with about a third experiencing one to four attacks each month. Because headache is synonymous to migraine, many people have come to accept that it is just another bad headaches and would not think much of it.
Ignorant of the facts, people who have intense headaches do not think they are suffering from migraine. No less, migraine is something got to do about the brain – it’s a neurological disorder affected in some areas of the brain. That’s why you feel nauseated, vomiting and are very sensitive to noise and lights.
When the migraine is imminent, you’d experienced a cascading event, some sort of an “aura” with visual disturbances that may look like a blind spot with visual jagged.
We have to dispel myths that are associated with migraine because it is often a misunderstood disease. Migraine is a neurobiological disease. Knowing how to separate myths from facts can help dispel any misperceptions and can help a sufferer fully understand the disease.
Caffeine is not a migraine reliever
The fact is for a certain of migraine sufferers, taking caffeine work might work as an inhibitor, but to others, is a trigger. Caffeine is found as an additive, in chocolate, coffee, tea, and certain soft drinks. Keep a list of caffeine which helps or hurts your migraine and you would manage it better.
Migraines are not triggered by stress
Fact is stress is triggered by migraine – both emotional and physical. In the case of emotional stress, your highly sensitized brains release certain chemicals to provoke the vascular changes that cause it to ignite. Factors related to anxiety include depression, mental fatigue, worry, excitement, shock.
Exercise may provoke an attack
Actually, exercise can lessen the frequency or provoke an attack. If you feel that physical exercise can induce a headache, checked with your health provider before you draw up any exercise routine. But moderate exercise that emphasizes to relax your muscles especially around your shoulder, neck, face and head can contribute good blood circulation in these regions. Generally, exercises promote overall good health and well being.
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Dietary supplement is a deterrent to migraine treatment
Indeed migraine sufferer may have a low magnesium level. Magnesium is found in leafy vegetables such as kale and spinach. Fruits like banana, avocado, figs and raspberries. Vegetables are also rich in magnesium, and they can be found in cabbage, peas, asparagus, broccoli, green beans. Seafood includes tuna, salmon and mackerel. Magnesium helps to relax the smooth muscles, such as in blood vessels.
Lack of sleep may not trigger migraine
Lack of sleep upset the body’s natural circadian rhythm and may trigger a migraine. So ensure to have some quality sleep every night. Make it a habit to go to sleep at the same time every night and wake up at the same time every day, even for weekends and public holidays. Read my blog on quality sleep
Migraines cannot be triggered by fumes and vapours
Those who are susceptible to migraine, certain fumes and vapours, including perfume, may start off a migraine headache. Try to avoid being in public places which are smoke-filled and are poorly ventilated.
Migraines are not inherited
The fact is migraines do run in the family. If your parents have them, the risks that you will develop it. Check out your family trees and find out whom of which has suffered from migraines and you will know for certain you’d be involved no matter how low your chances are.
Do I Have Migraine Headaches?
Can you differentiate between a headache and a migraine headache? Chances are you don’t? It has distinct characteristics from other types of headaches such as stress headaches, tension headaches and cluster headaches.
In a migraine headache, it is more one-sided-centric, meaning the pain is felt on either side of the head. Most of the time, the pain is felt in the temple area or behind the ears of one of the eyes.
Other severe signs and symptoms of acute migraine include vomiting and becoming very sensitive to sound and light. You may experience an aura which is a disturbance in vision moving across your field of vision with bright blinking coloured lights.
As your migraine becomes more chronic, the frequency of occurrences may be becoming more frequent. It can happen once or twice a week. For less severe cases, there’s a chance you will experience it twice a month.
Various types of migraine
Various types of migraine are abdominal, basilar, complicated, hemiplegic, nocturnal, and the cyclic migraine syndrome.
Abdominal migraine is common among children. It’s heredity and this may lead to the classic migraine. Symptoms may include periodic attacks in the abdomen for as long as two hours and are very painful.
Basilar migraine, also known as Bickerstaff”s syndrome and it affects adolescent girls. The pain occurs at the back part of the neck or brain when circulation is blocked. The symptoms are loss of balance, dizziness, and even fainting.
Another type is the complicated migraine that usually occurs with an extended aura that may last for a number of hours or could reach to a few days. This type poses a risk and may lead to changes in the neurological area of the brain which is associated with MRI scan changes, those that are present in stroke.
Hemiplegic migraine is the rarest among all types but one of the most severe. Its symptoms include temporary paralysis of the motor function and obstructions in the sensory system on a certain side of the body.
Nocturnal migraine may experience their attacks during the middle of the night or early morning hours. Evidence suggests that these attacks are related to changes in neurotransmitters in the brain during sleep.
Cyclic migraine syndrome is when a sufferer experiences alternate phases with a phase of constant attacks for a period of time, followed by a period of no attack and then a period of attack, During it cycle the head pain and other symptoms can strike every single day or many times in a week.
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Learning About Migraine Treatments
How debilitating they can be if you’re a migraine sufferer. You feel like hitting the wall and just couldn’t take it any longer, All the treatments you tried are of no relief whatsoever.
What could be worse? For a countless time, you see it coming again and again – you started to see spots, then you begin to feel sensitive to light, sounds and smell, nauseated and may feel dizzy. Sounds familiar don’t you?
The intense throbbing pain on the sides of your head makes you wish you could find a dark room and rest. Just like any other who had suffered from it are unable to concentrate, let alone functioning at school or at work. You have become an occupational hazard to your work and accident may happen. According to The National Migraine Association, also known as MAGNUM (http://www.migraines.org), reports that 36 million people in the United States suffer from migraine headaches.
How To Know If You Have Migraine?
Typically, people between the ages of 10 and 40, may suffer from migraine. In fact, over twenty-four million people in the USA alone, suffer together with the rest of the world.
People who suffered from this disease know about the telltale signs of an impending attack. You begin to get very sensitive to light and sound, then you experience the intense, throbbing pain on one side of the head or both. You may also feel nausea and occasionally vomiting.
If you are a first-time sufferer, you may be very confused because all the early symptoms of a trigger are there, but the head pain can occur as long as 24 hours later. The trigger is not easily pinpointed and often frightened sufferer thought that something is terribly wrong.
It is very common of people suffering from this disease and they are not fully aware of it. They often treat themselves at over the counter self-description medications that are not specifically for helping relief. Most likely than not, those who silently suffered from it had no point in time been diagnosed let alone went to see a healthcare provider about head pains.
To get you prepared for the next BIG Bang, here are the four most common signs before the storm is coming.
The Prodrome Stage
You would experience the following even 12 – 24 hours before you could even feel the pain in your head:
- Tiredness
- Cravings for food
- Yawn uncontrollable
- Frequent urinating
- Diarrhoea
- Constipation
- Feeling of depress
- Feeling confuse
- Irritability
- Difficult to concentrate
- Muscles in the neck stiffened
- Confusion
Aura
Before the pain sets in, you will experience another stage of sensory signs, which can last for 5 to 60 minutes. Visual symptoms include:
- Loss of vision
- Flashes of light or spots
- Soft shining light
You may feel a tingling or numbness in your face, legs or arms. Very noticeable is the impairment in your speech and you are literally confused about your surroundings. If these symptoms persist for over an hour seek medical help.
Women are more likely than men to have a migraine and you might be suffering too inherited from your family who had a history of migraine.
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Headache And Postdrome
Perhaps this is the most excruciating stage with the throbbing pain which can last up to 72 hours. Some may experience sensitivity to light, sounds or smells.
Postdrome
After the pain had subsided, you feel a sense of joy even if you are drained of your energy. Others may continue feeling confused and foggy.
Living With And Treating Migraine Headaches
Understanding that stress leads the list of all psychological triggers for migraine and could be the number one trigger. How to cope with stress helps you better in dealing with a migraine.
Make a list of all the possible triggers that you know of and have affected you before. This will forewarn you of any possible signs that may trigger a migraine. Keep note of all the details and discuss with your healthcare provider.
People who suffered from stress and migraine should get enough rest. Fixed your regular bedtime and waking up each day so that your body knows your routine without stressing out. If you are not in a routine, let’s start to set your body clock to regulates itself. Give yourself one or two weeks for your body to adapt to the new routine, and it’s important to stick to it.
Gradually, your body’s stress levels should reduce as your body starts in getting used to these times your stress levels and should reduce along with the frequency of migraine headaches.
Neck Exercises
Find some physical exercises that will fortify your body muscles, especially around your shoulders, neck, face and head. With a rested body and mind, all your worries will be forgotten and all your muscles will be loosened and untied, thus allowing a freeflow of oxygen to the brains. Learn how to breathe in properly to get the maximum amount of oxygen and breathe out properly so that all carbon dioxide is expelled fully from the lungs, to make way for your inhalation of oxygen.
The Cure
Migraine – the condition is not fully understood. We are made to understand that tracking trigger was the answer. Triggers are emotional, physical, environmentally and dietary events which will set your migraine in motion. There literally dozen of potential triggers.
Most people know that which particular triggers that affect them most, and the trick is best to avoid them. If only this is the best cure for migraine and you can foretell when a trigger going to happen. Identify the trigger points for each individual is quite difficult if not impossible. Triggers are not the cause of your migraine.
Feed Your Brains With Oxygen
Reduce tensions throughout our shoulders, necks, faces and heads and proper breathing so that your brains are feed with oxygen. This tightness acts as blockages. Not breathing properly and then oxygen not being able to reach your brain properly. Is the lack of oxygen is the cause of migraine, not the trigger.
Exercise Hold The Key
Anything can trigger a migraine but this is not the cause. Perhaps, exercise hold the key to solving the problem. Appropriate exercises relax the body’s muscles, especially the shoulder, neck, faces and heads, to facilitate your breathing and exhalation.
When your brain is sufficiently fed with oxygen, there is no cause of migraine. Any sorts of the trigger will not start any migraine because your those vital muscles are relaxed and there is abundant oxygen supply to the brain.
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Disclaimer: Nothing on this article is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. You should always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. The contents of this article are for informational purposes only.
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