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Migraine Headache
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Going Out Of Your Head
By aseya
There are people who can tell when they are about to have migraine. These people usually see bright shimmering lights around objects, zigzag lines or wavy images. Others experience hallucinations or
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Migraine, Brain Tumor And Seizure: A Differential Diagnosis
By malo
The television series, House is widely enjoyed by millions of viewers all over the world. The concept of the show revolves around a brilliant diagnostician and his team of doctors who try to
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Helpful Tips Offering Relief From Migraine Headaches
By Ignatius Rink
Migraine headaches affect millions of individuals around the world. They are extremely painful and hard to bear. Migraines can last anywhere from one hour to three or four days. Within that time, it
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Migraines That Affect Vision: Retinal Migraine
There are various migraine types although they all share common features. The phrase 'retinal migraine' is often incorrectly used to refer to a migraine that has any visual component but this is not
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Running Into Horrible Migraines
By Jennifer Thomas
Exercise is good for you. Being fit will help your whole body feel better, including ridding your painful migraines, right? So why did your headache specialist just tell you to drop out of this
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Butterbur Reduces Migraine Headaches In Children And Adolescents In Clinical Trial
A new clinical trial published in the journal Headache stated that a proprietary extract of butterbur root, an herbal remedy from Europe, has been able to successfully lower the occurrence of
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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
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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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