Prophylaxis migraine is Much Better Than Having One

Prophylaxis migraine is simply you trying to prevent your migraines from ever starting.

Prophylaxis by itself is what you can do for the prevention of a disease, or a health problem. As in migraines, when they are frequent, and disrupt your life, you need prophylactic therapy.

Prophylaxis migraine treatment could be continuous, intermittent, or episodic, depending on your migraine headaches.

For instance, if you have severe menstrual migraines, you may have intermittent prophylaxis/preventives usually two or three days before your period, and through your period. (women)

Episodic prophylaxis is when you know that you have a trigger, say from exercise induced headaches, or even a sexual induced headache.

You can take something like a beta blocker or indomethacin before you engaged in whatever triggers your migraine headache to help the pain.

Continuous daily treatment with prophylaxis medication will probably apply to most, and that is when your headaches are frequent, and necessary to help for your migraine relief.

Migraine prophylaxis results in a reduction of the number, and severity of migraine attacks. And that's what you are looking for. Sometimes you don't hit the nail on the head the first time.

Sometimes your treatment for migraines will be a trial, and error, to find out what works for you.

#(1)You should start migraine prophylaxis if you have two or three migraine attacks a month.

#(2)If your migraine attacks last more than forty eight hours, or.

#(3)If your migraine headaches hit with an intensity that are unbearable.

If you have complicated migraine attacks,you should take a migraine preventive because these types of migraines are dangerous.

The prophylactic treatment of migraines will be an important part of your migraine management.

Treatments for your migraines can take quite a few different twist, and turns down the road, from taking certain types of medicine or nutritional supplements, to lifestyle changes, and avoidance of migraine triggers.

Some things to avoid for your prophylactic migraine treatment.

You should try very hard to identify, and stay away from factors that promote, or precipitate your migraine attacks.

Watch your alcohol, and caffeine intake, make for sure your sleep habits are consistent, and eat regular meals, don't take short cuts.

All of this may be helpful for you to prevent your migraines.

Keep tab on foods and beverages. Many migraine sufferers have found that some of their migraine triggers were the yummy things we love to eat everyday.

These are proven, and tried such as herbal, and nutritional.

#(1)Butterbur has been used for hundreds of years tp prevent headaches.

#(2)CoQ10 for headaches has been found to have a beneficial effect on the condition of some sufferers of migraines. You may be the one that it helps.

#(3)Feverfew is a traditional herbal migraine remedy that is believed to reduce the frequency of attacks.

#(4)Also magnesium citrate has reduced the frequency of migraines.

Also migraine surgery is available for prophylaxis for migraines

Treatment with botox injections has been very helpful for many. Although it doesn't work for all. This is rather expensive, so check with your insurance.

There's also several invasive surgical procedures which are currently under investigation. One involves the surgical removal of specific muscles in the area of one or more of four identified trigger points.

One that they are probably going to preform on my wife is a decompression of the occipital nerve for certain headaches that never quit hurting. This is another prophylaxis migraine treatment that is used for some stubborn migraines. It's done by a plastic Sergent, and only at a few places in the USA.

It involves finding your trigger points, then moving back anything that may be pressing against the nerve. This is invasive, and once again, only done for prophylaxis migraine treatment.

The criteria for this is

#(1)A headache that doesn't respond to any migraine treatment, and is continuous.

#(2)If you have had a headache for a certain period of time, and there again doesn't respond to migraine treatment.

#(3)Respond to a nerve block in the occipital nerve by a competent headache specialist.

Many of the preventive/prophylaxis migraine treatments described above work quite well, and are quite effective at reducing, and in some cases giving total relief of your migraines/ headaches.

Our next page is acupuncture for migraines, and our last page was about a silent migraine.

Wishing all a pain free day.

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