Are Migrains Taking you Away From your Family??

They take your quality of life and in some cases make it non existent. They can make you depressed, and in cases live like a hermit. (much easier than triggering a migraine attack, isn't it?) You know this, don't you?

We can't give you any more information than you already know about what is a migraine. In one way or another we're giving help for migraines through trial and error, mostly error.

What are migrans vs headaches

When you get a migraine, your neurons are hyper excited. They're firing faster than the cylinders in John Force's race car.

A migraine is a debilitating condition with moderate to severe pain (mostly severe), and nausea, plus vomiting. Thus years ago, they were called sick headaches, before they were given the name of migraines.

More women suffer than men with migraines.

It generally effects one side of the head, and lasts from four to seventy hours or more. Most of the migraine sufferers we know have the pain more than four hours. Also,around a third of migrain sufferers (28,000,000) in the United States alone have a migraine with aura, called the classic migraine.

If you suffer with migrain aura, your visual, sensory, speech, or motor disturbances (mobility) will let you know the train is coming.

If you have a dull pain or pressure on both sides of your head in the scalp area, temples, or in the back of your neck.... Pain feels like a band squeezing around your head, and the muscles may knot up and be tender to the touch, then you probably have a tension headache. Many times migraine sufferers have to deal with headaches overlapping with their migraines.

Migrains are often misdiagnosed

According to the International Headache Society, you suffer with migraines if you meet the following

#(1)If you've had five or more migraine attacks, or suffered with just two migrains with aura attacks, and....

#(2)Your pain, and the duration of the attacks have lasted from four hours to three days.....

#(3)And two or more attacks you had pulsating pain, moderate pain or severe pain, and only half of your head was affected, and routine physical activity aggravated your pain...

#(4)If you had nausea, and vomiting' or sensitivity to light, and sound.

Since at the beginning of migraines, most are treated with OTC medicines, or you may go to the doctor and he/she will give you pain medicine. Eighty five percent of migrainers get caught up in rebound headaches and migraines, and that can end up being a nightmare for the migraine sufferer."so"

#(1)Do take pain medicine. Don't take it to often, no more than two days a week for migrains.

#(2)Do go to a doctor, and preferably a headache specialist (not just a neurologist, all are not headache specialist). Don't stick around to long if they aren't helping you. You don't want to go to a headache doctor if you're not receiving help. Find another one.

Research until you find some good ones. If nothing helps your migraines, research a headache specialist that does invasive surgery. There's now more options than ever for migrains. Don't let migraines control you .You control them.

#(3)Don't assume your doctor has a magic pill that will take your migraines away, never to be had again. Do take it upon yourself that you will do your darndest to find your triggers, what sets off your migraines if you can. You may have to give up something, but to keep from having the pain it will be well worth it. Read migraine books, print off this diary, and kick it in overdrive to help your migrains.

#(4)Realize that you not only have external factors that may be bugging you (stress, bad sleep habits, foods, some beverages, and many more), and you're going to learn them all so well, that you can remember them all?????

You could also be suffering with internal factors that could cause migraines as well. For instance, TMJ, neck problems, nose, scar tissue around the occipital nerve, to many more "things"that could be causing your migraines. A good headache specialist can track this down.

You can research more on migrains, but the thing to remember is, have your migraine or headache diagnosed as to what type it is, then start digging if it's an outside force (if possible fix an inside trigger), then eliminate it.

Keep a diary, and then you'll know what you did before your migrains started. Maybe "bingo" you'll know something before long that is causing your migrains.

Our next page goes in to more detail on a headache vs migraine. A little more info to remember.

Good luck on your migrains

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