Migraines

A migraine headache is one of the worst headaches a person can experience. They are debilitating as they do not just provide pain but is usually accompanied by sensitivity to light, sound and cause nausea. Most sufferers have to lie down in a darkened bedroom, with a wet cloth over their eyes until the migraine finally goes away. A migraine headache may last from hours to days.

The cause of the migraine headache is unknown, which is exceedingly frustrating. Also, not everyone will experience a migraine in the same way. Not even the same person will have a migraine headache the same way! My migraines occur in the Spring and Fall when the seasons change. Doctors do not know if the trigger is pollen, change of the amount of sunlight per day or change in stress level.

Thankfully I only get one migraine each season but the migraine headache is not the same each time. Some migraines are very bad and feel like someone is drilling all over my skull at once. Other times my head just feels like it is stuck in a vise. Sometimes I’ll get an aura before the migraine headache starts. That at least gives me a warning so that I can get home and stop driving before it hits.

The migraine headache aura is something peculiar to the migraine headache. It is a visual disturbance that migraine sufferers will experience before the headache begins and may also occur during the rest of the headache.

I have experienced two types of aura with my migraines over the years. The aura will either be a large arch of vibrating red and blue small triangles that gradually appear and block out my vision in one eye, or it will be a hole of no vision over one eye. My left eye seems to be the one usually affected by the auras. As you can see, it is impossible to function normally with an aura that precursors a migraine headache.

After the migraine headache is over I am completely exhausted and feel ill. For those that have never had the misfortune to experience a migraine headache, it is very hard to explain the pain and recovery symptoms. It is like needing to recover from physical torture. Your body needs to recover and so does your mental state. I am lucky in that I only have a few migraine headaches a year. I really do not know how people can even live when they have several migraines a week!

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It is estimated that some 28 million people have been diagnosed as suffering from migraines in the US alone, while a further 14 million are thought to have undiagnosed migraine headaches. The World Health Organization considers migraines to be one of the most debilitating diseases of mankind. One migraine headache can put your life “on hold” for anything from a few hours to a couple of days. Before puberty, boys and girls are affected equally by migraines. [click link for full article]

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Adolescents from low-income families are much more likely to suffer from migraine headaches than teens from wealthier households, according to researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The findings, published in Neurology, suggest that factors associated with low socioeconomic status –stress, poor diet and limited access to medical care, for example — increase the prevalence of migraines in young people.Led by Dr. [click link for full article]

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According to preliminary results of an ongoing study at Columbus Children’s Hospital, to be presented at the American Headache Society’s June meeting in Chicago, parents of adolescents with migraines may have an influence on the level of pain reported. Approximately 10 percent of children and adolescents get migraines, and as many as two percent suffer from chronic migraines, meaning 15 or more headaches a month. [click link for full article]

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A headache is the pain that occurs in the head above the eyes or the ears, behind the head or in the back of the upper neck. Headaches need to be taken seriously. If they persist, seek medical advice in order to rule out any physical cause. Modern medical studies conclude that headaches have many different causes and that their intensity and frequency is based on the sufferer’s individual make-up, gender, age and even heredity. [click link for full article]

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Teenagers from low income households with no family history of migraine are more likely to suffer migraine than children from upper income families, according to a study published in the July 3, 2007, issue of Neurology�, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers surveyed 18,714 adolescents and their parents. A total of 1,178 adolescents had migraine. [click link for full article]

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There are more than two million kids who suffer from migraines in this country - some as young as five years old.* Nearly 9 times out of 10, those kids come from families with a history of migraines.* While these headaches may be shared, does that mean the pain is necessarily the same? A new study is underway to find out how much pain is genetic, and how much is mimicked. Shaina Malo has learned that it’s best to do her homework as soon as she gets home from school. [click link for full article]

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