Jackie Jones asked:


There are millions of migraine sufferers all over the United States. If you are one of the people suffering from this neurological condition, you know how painful migraine attacks can be. In fact, they can be so painful that they can render you immobile for the whole day or even the whole week depending on the severity of your headache.

This is a very disabling disease that causes many companies with employees suffering from the condition to lose millions of dollars every year because of loss of productivity.

Fortunately for you, there are now a wide range of treatments and medications available which can help you in preventing migraine attacks and even relieving the headaches once they attack.

To treat yourself in your home, you can try using a frozen towel. Try to get a frozen towel handy in order for you to be prepared whenever you feel that a migraine attack is coming. All you need to do is wet the towel, squeeze it and place it inside the freezer for about 5 minutes. After that, place the towel on your head and your eyes. You will see that this will be able to provide relief from the pounding pain you will experience during an attack.

You may want to lie down on a quiet and dark room and try getting some sleep. This will help relieve the headache pain. You can also massage yourself on the head or get someone to massage your head.

NSAIDs are also very effective in reducing the severity of attacks. The doctor will also be able to prescribe you some prescription pain medication which can effectively prevent migraine attacks before it happens.

All in all, knowing about the triggers of migraine attacks will be able to help you manage the disease very well. By knowing about the triggering factors, you will be able to avoid such situations and help you prevent migraine from happening to you. These are the things that you should remember about migraine attacks and the available treatments and mediations to relieve the pain.

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Michael Russell asked:


If you suffer from migraine headaches, you know all about the excruciating pain. They used to be called “sick headaches” because of the nausea and vomiting that are often associated with these kinds of severe headaches. This really unbearable pain can last for up to three days with little relief from taking plain aspirin or even stronger over-the-counter medicines. As a migraine sufferer you know that it gives warning before it strikes. You may experience blurry vision or see black spots or lines before your eyes.

Usually the headaches will be on one side of the head and often centered around one eye. Noise and light seem to be intolerable, and eating might be impossible. People sometimes will just go to bed with a migraine to try and lessen the pain. When the headache finally wears off, usually one to two days later, the sufferer will be pretty weak and shaken. After feeling normal again the person will usually feel alert and fine, until the next migraine strike occurs.

To understand about how to cure and lessen migraine pain, you first need to learn about what causes these terrific headaches. It has been said that migraines are associated with people who are perfectionists and drive themselves relentlessly in order to succeed. They will do this until they are totally exhausted, but they also feel triumphant from their work in the process. This is when many of the migraines will start up. Sometimes it just takes excitement, or even fright, to trigger the migraine.

A person with this type of high drive personality should be aware of what happens to their body when they push themselves beyond their physical capabilities. Before this person finally lets go to exhaustion, the migraine will already be starting to attack. The blood vessels start to shrink in the head, which doesn’t let the blood circulate normally and leads to visual abnormalities. Then, when the person finally does let go of his exhaustion, the blood pressure rises. The blood vessels then start to dilate and the walls of the vessels swell. Then the brain produces and releases a stress enzyme. Soon the migraine headache starts with its unusually harsh throbbing and pain. Some time after, the digestive system starts to become upset. The migraine is full-fledged at this point.

There are several approaches to relieve a migraine, but the best one is to prevent it altogether. The high drive personality of a migraine sufferer is usually mostly to blame. This person should slow down in his stressful business and/or personal life. But when a migraine attack is inevitable, the person should not give into it by going to bed or abruptly slowing down his activities. If he or she gives into the headache slowly and not quickly, it will keep the blood vessels from over relaxing and therefore causing the first ebb and flow of the migraine. Fresh air, coffee, a massage and a heat lamp applied on the back of the neck can help to restore circulation and relieve the pain.

The nutritional approach can also help the sufferer. He or she should be eating a high vitamin, high mineral and high protein diet. Additional supplements should also be taken. The sufferer should check with his or her doctor before using any of these natural remedies for their migraine headache relief. Remember that migraines can be caused by lots of stress and also nutritional deficiencies. The sufferer needs to relax and start taking it easy (or easier!) and of course needs to eat a nutritional diet along with supplements. Prevention is the key for curing migraines!

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Mike Bedard asked:


There is nothing as annoying and exhausting as a headache. Headaches not only affect the quality of our life, it also affects our efficiency as well as social existence. When we have a headache, we feel totally exhausted – mentally as well as physically. In this article I will tell you about three natural home remedies that you can use to cure headache fast.

There are a variety of causes behind headaches. Headaches can occur either because you are suffering from sinus, or migraine, or tension. Each of these types of headaches should be treated differently.

Most people make the mistake of running for medicines AFTER they have a headache. Don’t make that mistake. Most headaches are easily preventable and there is no need to wait for a headache to appear in order to find the treatment. Why would you endure the pain of headache while you can easily prevent it? You can easily prevent headache by using the following home remedies:

1. Take two teaspoonfuls of honey every day. This will help prevent any headache attacks.

2. Apart from honey, natural apple cider vinegar too has been proven to preventive headaches. You can take equal amounts of natural apple cider vinegar and water and boil them in a pan well until smoke begins to rise. When the smokes are strong enough, lean your head over the pan and inhale the smoke for about fifty to eighty breathes. This goes a long way in preventing future attacks of headaches. Also if you are already suffering from headache, this treatment helps to cure headache as well.

3. Messaging is yet another way to prevent headaches. Messaging helps in curing headaches as well. Buy Pure Almond Carrier Oil and Lavender Essential Oil. Wet your fingertips in Pure Almond Carrier Oil and then add a couple of drops of Lavender Essential Oil and gently message your temples, the hollows at the sides of your eyes, behind the ears and over your neck in a circular motion. See how it soothes your pains!

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kentrese asked:


neck injuries and nerve and muscle damage to left side incurred from car accident(s) with repeat injuries to neck. chronic fatique and fybromyalgia ar issues as well. has led to being disabled.

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Emily asked:


For the past several hours, I’ve had a pretty severe pain on the left side of my head; it’s gone from around my ear and up to my temple. It’s sort of like a pulsating pain which keeps coming and going. I’ve also had a little bit of blurry vision today (although I do have astigmatism), as well as feeling a little dizzy/off-balance. I had a CT scan in July 2007 which was clean, and I had a full neurological work up on 7/18/08. I’ve had headaches almost daily for the past year and a half, but no tumor has been found. My doctor who did the neurological work up said that I was probably suffering from migraines because my cranial nerves were intact and my CT scan was clean, so it was highly unlikely that I have a tumor. Am I suffering from a migraine or should I be concerned about a tumor and seek a second opinion? I just recently got the migraine diagnosis so I’m not quite familiar with all the symptoms or how they present themselves.
to answer Rachelle’s question, yes, I do currently have my period; however, I don’t necessarily have a migraine every time I have my menstrual cycle.

I’d also like to add that I have minor low back discomfort (although this has been a long-standing issue for which I’ve seen a chiropractor, so I’m not sure it’s related at all.)

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