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Migraine Headache
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Do You Have Menstrual Migraine?
By oneclickdoctor
Women are indeed beautiful. However, womanhood is always accompanied by the woes of menstrual troubles. Monthly visits are oftentimes accompanied by discomfort that can sometimes affect the
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Do You Recognize The 8 Symptoms Of Migraine Headaches?
By Alvin Toh
Migraine headaches are usually very intense pounding headaches that often involve only one side of the head. Migraine pain is so intense that you know it is no ordinary headache. Even slight movement
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Alternative Treatments - 5-htp For Depression
By Franchis
What is 5-Htp?5 Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is so-called natural alternative to traditional antidepressants, used to treat unipolar depression and dysthymia. It is an amino acid that is an
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Bright Lights And Jagged Lines
By kristine
It occurs without a warning. They look like jagged flashes of lightning bolts shimmering around the object or field of vision. It usually interferes or obscure vision. The seemingly hallucination
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Depression, Headaches, And Migraine Care
By Rick Cosby
Copyright 2006 www.TriggerOptics.comDepression is a factor in head aches and is known to change head aches to migraines during a depressed state. When a person is depressed there are a lot of
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8 Ways To Help Your Doctor Help Your Migraines-and More Tips!
By J. Wes Tanner, MD
1)Have questions written down and give your doctor a copy. Allow your doctor to use judgment in what points and what order to cover them. Do not be disappointed if every question is not answered.
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Migraines
& Severe Headaches
Migraine
is a neurological disease that can cause a wide range of symptoms
during an attack. It is widespread in the population. In the U.S., 18%
of women and 6% of men report having had at least one migraine episode
in the previous year,[4] with seriousness ranging from an annoyance to
a life-threatening and/or daily experience.
Migraines
Can Destroy the Quality of Life
Migraines
are not
likely to take life but they can destroy the quality of life.
Treatments are typically expensive and this periodic or unpredictable
disability can cause poverty due to patients' inability to hold down a
job.
The onset of migraine is
from childhood though it is most
commonly in the 20s and 30s and relatively infrequently after the age
of 40; therefore, prevalence increases from the first to fourth decades
and thereafter declines.
Some
of the symptoms encountered are nausea, vomiting, photophobia
(sensitivity to light), phonophobia (sensitivity to noise). The pain is
classified by two main types
- one sided (moderate
to severe) and throbbing (aggravated by movement).
Other
symptoms
Other
symptoms are that may be experienced include osmophobia (sensitivity to
smell), aura (visual disturbances such as bright zigzag lines, flashing
lights and difficulty in focusing) and difficulty in concentrating.
A Migraine induced headache will typically last anywhere from 4 to 72.
Cases lasting longer than 72hours
are a condition known as
Status Migrainosus. Migraine may occur recurrently over many years or
even decades. Frequency may vary greatly in the same person over time,
from a few each year to several times a week.
Stages of Migraine can be
divided into five distinct phases:
Early Warning Symptoms
Prodromol, up to 24 hours before the attacks start. These symptoms
include changes in mood, gut symptoms, nausea, changes in appetite
(intense hunger or sugar craving, lack of appetite, constipation,
diarrhoea.
Aura
Accompanies migraine attacks for about 20 – 30% of
migraineurs.
The most common aura symptoms are visual disturbances such as bright
zigzag lines, flashing lights, difficulty in focusing or blind
spots. Aura affects the visual field of both eyes despite
often
seeming to affect only one, these affects last from 5-60 minutes then
the vision normally restores itself.
Headache
Those experiencing classical migraine (migraine with aura) may or may
not have a gap of up to an hour between the end of the aura and the
onset of the head pain and may feel a bit ‘spaced out’ during the
gap. Regardless of whether one experiences migraine with
aura, or
common migraine (migraine without aura), the headaches are similar. The
headache phase can last up to three days. It is often
throbbing
and on one side of the head, but can affect both.
Resolution
The way an attack ends varies greatly. Sleep is restorative for
some. Being sick can make children feel much
better. For
others effective medication can improve attacks. For a few
nothing works except the headache burning itself out.
Migraine Recovery
Postdromol, a feeling of being drained may exist for about 24 hours,
others may feel energetic or even euphoric.
Essentially,
migraine is caused by the interaction between the brain and the cranial
blood vessels. Treatment can be aimed at constriction of
dilated
arteries to abort each headache as it comes or at the brain itself in
an attempt to prevent the headaches altogether.
Some people can
manage their migraines with medications available from a
pharmacy. For many others, these are not sufficiently
effective.
Effective migraine management often involves a partnership between you
and your doctor. Some medications are given once the headache has begun
(acute treatment) and others taken daily to reduce the frequency of
attacks (preventative treatment).
We strive to provide only quality articles and
other resources, so if there is a specific topic related to
migraine that you would like us to cover, please contact us at
any time.
And again, thank you to those contributing daily to
our migraine website.
TheTeam@awareness-guide.com
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