December 6, 2007
- Migraine – Equal Opportunity Pain
Migraine has been thought, for many years, to be a woman’s disease. Women got migraine when they were pregnant, or when they were stressed. Men rarely experienced migraine, according to the common belief.
Now, however, it is becoming clear that men also may be prone to migraine.Online Survey Results
A recent online survey (October 2007) conducted by [...]
September 26, 2007
- Painkiller Induced Migraine
You have chronic migraine headaches. You can’t remember when they became chronic. You used to have simple headaches. Then they became more intense and frequent. Finally, you realized you were having migraine headaches often. That’s when your physician began calling it chronic migraine. You can’t remember the date, however. All you know is that you [...]
July 16, 2007
- Migraine or Non-Migraine
You are going about your regular, daily activities, when suddenly a headache strikes. Is it a migraine headache or a non-migraine headache? Is there any way to distinguish a migraine headache from other headaches?
Some believe a migraine headache is always preceded by aura. They define aura as visual disturbances, especially zig-zag lines and flashes of [...]
June 20, 2007
- Ocular Migraine Symptoms
Migraine headache is best defined, to many people, as an especially huge beast of a headache. They fail to realize that migraine comes in various forms. For the most part, few of us have heard of an ocular migraine.
Ocular migraine manifests itself almost entirely through the visual disturbances of an aura. The migraineur may never [...]
June 13, 2007
- Migraine Prevention for Minor Headaches
Migraine is sometimes thought to be a synonym for excruciating headaches. Not every migraine has such severe headaches, however. Minor headaches are often migraine, and call for migraine prevention measures.
Migraine Prevention Tips
Migraine prevention tips are many. Some help one person, and some help another. For some, avoiding certain foods works well as migraine prevention. For [...]
May 11, 2007
- Migraine Headache - Can Solar Flares Affect It?
Solar flare. A sudden, short burst of energy. The sun’s surface releases a gust of hydrogen gas - radiation and energetic particles - magnetic energy equivalent to tens of millions of hydrogen bombs exploding at one time. The release lasts a few minutes or a few hours, hurling plasma into space at many hundreds of [...]
May 5, 2007
- Migraine, My Friend?
Migraine is not usually seen as a friend. In the U.S., more than 28 million Americans are migraineurs, suffering regularly from visual and aural disturbances. They usually suffer from an accompanying, excruciating headache as well. How could such a thing be termed a friend?
Despite the pain and inconvenience, migraines have been shown to have benefits [...]
April 27, 2007
- Visual Migraine - Shimmering Light
Visual migraine. What is it? The term seems to imply that it is one of those excruciating headaches that remove you from circulation for 3 or 3 days. A visual migraine may not do that, however. It may occur without headache.
Visual migraine is probably responsible for many of the wonderful events and descriptions of the [...]
April 11, 2007
- I Ate a Trigger Food!
I ate a migraine trigger food: how long before a headache will hit? If you have never spoken those words aloud, chances are you have thought them if you know your personal migraine headache trigger foods.
I ate a migraine trigger food isn’t the whole story, though. Most migraine headaches occur for no apparent reason. Migraine [...]
April 7, 2007
- Abdominal Migraine Is Real
Migraineurs suffer a variety of migraines. Some seem typical, following the stages most people have come to understand about migraines. Others seem strangely out of place, as though the migraine has slipped from the head to another part of the body.
Defining Abdominal Migraine
Abdominal migraine is one of those that attack other than the head. It [...]
April 4, 2007
- Cluster Migraine Symptoms
Although many people think of a migraine only as an excruciating headache, there are actually various kinds of migraine and various migraine symptoms. Basilar artery, abdominal, ophthalmic, ocular, and hemiplegic are some kinds of migraine. In addition to these, many claim to experience cluster migraine symptoms.
Defining the cluster migraine
The term “cluster migraine” is sometimes applied [...]
March 26, 2007
- Migraine Symptoms - to Each His Own
Suppose you are sitting in a room with 100 people. Out of those 100, you learn that 11 have come to accept migraine symptoms as an inescapable part of life.
Migraine symptoms are a part of life for more than 10 percent of the people in the U.S., but migraine symptoms differ. For some of those [...]
March 13, 2007
- Understanding the Hemiplegic Migraine
Migraine. The word itself can bring anguished looks and words from a migraineur. Most migraines involve severe, sometimes debilitating headache. Most involve various aura manifestations. Yet of all the migraines, hemiplegic migraine is among the most serious.
Define Hemiplegic Migraine
The hemiplegic migraine is a very rare form of migraine. The word “hemiplegic” comes from two Greek [...]
February 14, 2007
- How Migraines Affect Your Life
Having a headache is never fun, but you can usually go on with life. Having a migraine headache is life-changing, and can often bring everything to a screeching halt for a day or more.
Migraines Affect Your Life in 4 Stages
Migraines affect your life in 4 stages: prodrome, aura, headache, and postdrome.
1. [...]
January 22, 2007
- Basilar Artery Migraine
Having a headache is never fun. Having a migraine headache is far less than fun. Having a basilar artery migraine is among the worst.
Basilar Artery Migraine - Bickerstaff’s Syndrome
Basilar Artery Migraine (BAM) is also known as Bickerstaff’s Syndrome. If you are diagnosed with it, your physician may use one or both [...]
January 12, 2007
- Migraine Headache Symptoms: Understanding and Treating
Migraine headache symptoms are a part of life for nearly 11 out of 100 people. If you are one of them, or if you live with a sufferer, you know that migraine headache symptoms include much more than the actual headache pain. Migraine headache symptoms affect your entire body in one way or another. In [...]
