I suffer from migranes what can help?

Answer 1

I get them too. They blow:

Here are some suggestions:

Avoiding triggers, managing stress, and taking prophylactic medications can help prevent migraines. Keeping a migraine journal can help identify triggers and gauge the effectiveness of preventive measures. Patients should monitor the following:

-Activities
-Emotional factors (e.g. stressful situations)
-Environmental factors (e.g., weather, altitude changes)
-Foods and beverages
-Medications (over-the-counter and prescription)
-Migraine characteristics (e.g., severity, length)
-Physical factors (e.g., illness, fatigue)
-Sleep patterns

Stress management techniques (e.g., biofeedback, hypnosis) and stress-reducing activities (e.g., meditation, yoga, exercise) may help prevent migraines.

When exploring the causes of headaches, the easiest, cheapest place to start is diet. Food reactions are a significant contributor to headaches and some improvement in symptoms, if not complete remission, can always be achieved by eliminating problematic dietary items. The elimination/challenge trial described below is a good way to identify food reactions that may be causing your headaches.

Foods that most commonly induce migraines:

-cow's milk
-wheat
-chocolate
-egg
-orange
-benzoic acid
-cheese
-tomato
-tartrazine (yellow food dye)
-rye

Foods like cheese, beer, and wine induce migraines in some people because they contain histamines and/or vasoactive compounds that cause blood vessels to expand. Women tend to react to histamine-containing foods more frequently than men do, on account of a deficiency in an enzyme (diamine oxidase) that breaks histamine down. Taking supplemental B6 may be helpful in these situations, as it can increase diamine oxidase activity.

Nitrites, which are common ingredients in lunch meats and smoked/cured meats, dilate blood vessels, and may trigger migraine.

Answer 2

go and see a chiropractor..

Migraine headaches can be totally immobilizing lasting from a few hours to a couple of days. Migraine attacks can come on very quickly with the symptoms of numbness, nausea, dizziness and extreme throbbing pain, often behind the eyes causing difficulty in focusing or seeing. Migraines are often caused by an imbalance in the spine with the nerves of the neck and the head being more severely affected. This in turn can cause muscular contraction in the neck and head bringing on the migraine attack.

Chiropractors don't just treat headaches but treat the "whole" body. Millions of headache sufferers have benefited from the safe, natural, drugless, chiropractic approach to health care.

Answer 3

I have suffered from migraines all of my life. I have learned that they will not be a frequent if I keep the stress level in my life minimized as much as possible. I actually suffered from them as a child, but in those days, it had not been proved that children could even have migraines. I just had to suffer it out, and would be given an aspirin occasionally. I actually was not diagnosed with migraines until I was in college and discussed my symptoms with my Health professor, who happened to be a licensed acupuncturist, and I had acupuncture done a few times a year during college which kept the problem to a very minimal amount. There is also a chemical and hormonal component to all types of headaches, and especially to migraines. In women it is cyclic, based on body chemistry. In men it is more stress related and many men will have them in the form of cluster headaches, and they will wake up with them in the morning. It can be excruciating, I had them so severely, a few years ago I was getting the light reactions and aura, and if I did not get into a darkened room immediately, then I would get the full-blown extreme pounding headache which could last for days and then the nausea. I retried the acupuncture, at that point, but it no longer alleviated all of the symptoms. I have now had to combine a 24 hour sinus medication (I also have allergies, which does contribute to the severity of the migraines) with Excedrin Migraine. If I get the combination of neck pain and I can feel the headache "moving" up the back of my neck, I will take one Excedrin Tension and one Migraine to stop the symptoms in their tracks. At this point in time, just the combination of over the counter meds are doing the trick for me. I cannot take many prescription meds as I am allergic to penicillin. I generally try to exercise at least one half hour or more per day, eat as healthy as I can, watch out for chemical additives in foods. I also wear eyeglasses, and it is important to keep my prescription updated every year. Problems with your eyesight can contribute to the occurrence of the headaches. It is a bit of work to find what will help you, but it is worth it to live a nearly migraine free life. Hope this helps end the suffering for you. Have a good day!

Answer 4

depends on you and your migrane actually. If this is a chronic thing, go see your doctor, there are alot of prescrition drugs out there like Imitrex and Relpax that are doing wonders for people. Other than that, avioding light, sound, and anything that can cause stimulation of any kind can help, also cool compresses to your forehead may ease you pain too, but i do still recommend seeing your doctor at any rate. Hope this helps

Answer 5

I consistently attempt to journey them out with out taking something because I have been given pregnant. dark quiet room with a chilly compress and approximately 12 hours time. Sucks yet a minimum of i comprehend i'm no longer eating something that would placed my infant in risk. So possibly i'm a splash paranoid and doubtless a pair percocets would help and pose no possibility to the infant yet I even have the added characteristic of being a recuperating addict so even till now getting pregnant maximum meds and all narcotics have been a great no no for me. Caffeine additionally facilitates, exceedingly in case you have suddently decrease back or decrease out caffeine once you found out you have been pregnant. it may be withdrawel indications. would additionally be related to the greater beneficial swelling interior the nasal passages which will reason sinus congestion, maximum of my migraines could be relieved by utilising getting my sinus's to empty. warm bathe, coming up a mini steam tub for my head with a bowl of boiling water and a towel, decongestants basically as a final consequence. Oh, and throwing up in many cases clears out my sinus's yet i in my opinion hate whilst that occurs! Migraines suck. For me although, medicating to get rid of them isn't an option. discover the reason (if possible, no longer all migraines have a reason) and manage that in case you are able to.

Answer 6

The drug Valuim can help with your problem, talk to your doctor. Migranes are mostly cause by the pinching of the cranial nerve. Also any thing to lower your blood pressure will help too.

Answer 7

This is something I was told to do when I was a kid with migraines, and it seemed to work. Put some ice in a bag and get out a heating pad. Put the ice over the area where you have your migraine, then switch out with the heat. Do that every few minutes for 30 minutes or so and see if that helps.

Answer 8

Taking a REALLY hot shower (making sure water runs over your head) or going into a steam room helps me.

I've tried Imitrex which is supposed to be a very strong pain-killer specifically for migraines but it didn't always help. When it did stop the migraine it made me feel really hot and sick for about an hour.

Answer 9

Mig-relief can. (its a very strong pain killer)

Identifying what causes them helps. Common causes are lack of food, lack of sleep, watching tv or using a computer in poor light, squinting a lot, stress, high blood pressure, allergies.

Get high blood pressure eliminated by your doctor. On the days you get migraines look back at the day and see what you've been doing. General guideline is if it can cause a headache or is unhealthy it may cause your migraine.

Answer 10

I used to suffer from them till the Dr suggested that he put needle into my neck and relieve some fluid. It worked and now no more migraines since 2 years ago