Do you suffer from pounding, throbbing, pulsating and painful headaches for several hours or even days? Do you feel it on one side of your head the first time and then switches to the other side the next time it attacks? Do you feel it around you r eyes, at the back of your head or on your neck? Does your headache amplify when you see lights or hear sounds? Do physical activities such as walking upstairs or picking up something on the floor heighten the pain you feel? Does your headache appear when after you have eaten a certain food? What you experience is not just an ordinary headache but it is more than that, you may be suffering from migraine. Mentioned above are some of the symptoms of migraine. These symptoms may also accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Some people may experience migraine aura, warning signs, for an hour or two before actually experiencing migraine headaches. Some of the migraine auras are blurred visions, visual hallucinations, and eye pain, flashing lights, zigzag lines and blind spots. Other warning signs are numbness or tingling on one side of the face, chills, and sensitivity to loud noises and strong smell.
Migraine headaches can be triggered by several factors such as allergic reactions, lack of sleep, physical and emotional stress and anxiety, smoking, drinking alcohol, tension headaches, skipping meals, eating foods containing tyramine, monosodium glutamate or nitrates, and hormonal changes like during menstruation periods in women. Migraine results from enlargement of blood vessels that is located on the outside of the skull and release of chemicals from nerve fibers which causes pain, inflammation and further enlargement of arteries. It is also said that migraine attacks the sympathetic nervous system in the body that controls the “fight or flight” responses of a person. Stress, depression and threatening situations increase the release of these chemicals thus affects migraine. In these conditions, an alarm signal is sent to the anxiety brain, the amygdale, for interpretation and puts your whole body in an alarmed mode.
Migraine is a chronic disease. Once a person has suffered from migraine, there is always a possibility that migraine will occur again. The best way to cure it is actually to prevent migraine from happening again. There are several natural ways to prevent the occurrence of migraine. Natural remedies include resting in a dark room, having enough hours of sleep, cold compress over the head, neck and back, acupuncture, biofeedback, taking magnesium, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin C, chiropractic, choline, feverfew and butterbur herbs, and vegetable juices. For severe migraine headaches, medications may be required. Consultations to your doctor should be done for prescriptions of drugs. Some medications include painkillers (analgesics) such as aspirin and codeine, ibuprofen, paracetamol, triptans, acetaminophen and ergotamine tartrate.
The preventions of migraine headaches mentioned above are just few of the many remedies. There are lot of articles, videos and eBooks available on the Internet that can help you out. Do not wait for the time that the only option you have is to undergo surgery.
If you are searching for a reliable natural alternative to treat your migraines at home, you should take a look at this review of the Migraine Relief, the program created by Elizabeth Hayden, an expert in the fields on migraines: Review of The Migraine Relief