Migraineurs – people who suffer regular migraine headaches – will be excited to learn of the new migraine zapper. That means about 28 million people in the United States, as well as millions more around the globe will be excited.

Migraine Relief is promised by many prescription drugs, herbal remedies, and folk remedies, but for many, the promise is never kept. Migraine Relief is slow in coming, or eludes them altogether.

Migraine Relief from a Zapper

The migraine zapper may be the answer. The migraine zapper, officially named the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator (TMS), is a new device that promises to give quick and lasting Migraine Relief.

Yousef Mohammad, M.D., Ohio State University assistant professor of neurology, is overseeing a study of this new method of Migraine Relief. He says the TMS actually zaps the pain away.

Dr. Mohammad says,

By creating a magnetic field with this device, we’re hoping that this will interrupt this electrical stimulation before it leads to the throbbing migraine headache… We’re treating electricity with electricity instead of treating electricity with chemicals.

How It Is Used

To get Migraine Relief with the TMS, a migraineur simply holds the device to the head when migraine symptoms are felt. He or she then pushes the “trigger”. Two pulses are heard, two seconds apart, as the TMS interrupts the electrical process in the brain cells. Migraine Relief is immediate.

How It Works

Migraine is thought to be brought on by a trigger. Your trigger may be stress, a beverage, a food, or something else. When a migraineur is exposed to a personal trigger, a wave of electrical activity floods the brain. As the wave hits the brain’s pain center, it causes one or more migraine symptoms. You may have an aura for 15 or 20 minutes, and then the pain starts.

The aura, or other migraine symptom, is the signal to use the TMS. As you give yourself two zaps, the TMS emits an electrical current. That current creates a magnetic field. The magnetic field disrupts the electrical wave that is headed toward the brain stem’s pain center. It blocks the wave, and your brain’s electrical activity returns to normal. Migraine Relief results.

Effectiveness of the Zapper

In one of the preliminary trials of the TMS, seventy-five percent of migraineurs avoided the onset of a migraine with the two zaps.

One patient participating in Dr. Mohammad’s study found that the TMS cut her normal 4-hour migraines to 10 minutes.

Conclusion

The Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator has been used in other areas of medicine, but for migraineurs, its importance is quick Migraine Relief.

CAUTION: The author is not a medical professional. This information is for educational purposes only. If you are seeking Migraine Relief, please speak to your doctor.

Migraine headache is a part of migraine - a larger complaint. Yet to many, the pulsating, throbbing headache, often only on one side of the head, is itself a migraine. There may be a preceding aura, but the headache spurs the demand for Migraine Relief.

Making Your Body Give Migraine Relief

The human body has amazing powers to heal itself, given the opportunity. This Natural Migraine Relief is not only possible, but preferable to prescription medications that offer Migraine Relief at the price of unwanted side effects.

This Migraine Relief comes from the release of endorphins. The word “endorphin” means “morphine within”. Just as with morphine prescribed by a physician, endorphin dulls the pain. It is a natural pain killer.

Releasing Endorphins

You can stimulate your body’s natural pain-numbing powers, releasing endorphins into the blood stream and gaining Migraine Relief with a few simple actions.

1. Burst into laughter. Watch a comedy, look at cartoons, or read a hilarious book. Keep such on hand for Migraine Relief. Scientists have proven what the Bible said thousands of years ago, “A merry heart does good like a medicine.” Bursting into laughter releases endorphins, and provides almost immediate Migraine Relief. The body’s “feel-good chemicals” are that close to your fingertips.

2. With fingers or thumb, apply pressure under your eyebrow on the side of the head that is aching. There is a nerve there that can cause your pituitary gland to release endorphins immediately, giving the Migraine Relief you seek.

3. Cayenne pepper can also stimulate Migraine Relief by releasing endorphins. Stir 9 or 10 teaspoons of cayenne pepper into a glass of cold water. Drink the water immediately. As the cayenne pepper hits your stomach lining, nerves will convey a message of “pain” to your brain. The brain will release endorphins to counteract the stomach “pain”, and you will get Migraine Relief.

NOTE: The cayenne pepper does not really cause stomach pain, but nerves transmit the stomach’s reaction as pain.

Additional Natural Migraine Relief

Your body can provide its own Migraine Relief in other ways, too. Massage the crown of your head, consciously relaxing your entire body as you do so. Massage your ears, including ear lobes. Cool your nerves and muscles by placing a cold compress on your forehead or behind the neck. The body responds to all of these with Migraine Relief.

Your body knows instinctively how to kill, or at least numb, pain with its own endorphins. It was created to do that. It has that ability from birth. For centuries, natural endorphins were man’s only pain killer - the only Migraine Relief. You can, however, cripple that ability.

It has been shown that those who take synthetic pain killers actually increase their sensitivity to pain. That means that every pain killer that you take, prescription or not, will make Migraine Relief less likely.

Ongoing Migraine Relief

Immediate Migraine Relief at the onset of an episode is the main goal of most migraineurs. You can have ongoing Migraine Relief, however, through a regular exercise program. Such a program, done consistently, will help improve your response to stressors in life, and release endorphins.

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 light. But this is not necessarily true of every migraine headache. So how do you know?

Three Kinds of Headache

Migraine headaches are one of three main types of headache apart from those that accompany illnesses such as colds and flu.

Cluster Headache

Most medical dictionaries define cluster headaches as: a distinctive pattern of headaches, also known as migrainous neuralgia. Cluster headaches are most common in middle-aged men, and are very painful.

Clinically, cluster headaches may be episodic or chronic in nature.

* Episodic cluster headaches are the more common of the two. These are characterized by daily, short pain attacks around the eyes. The attacks come suddenly, without warning, may number up to three or more each day, and cluster over a 1-2 month interval. Cluster headaches go into remission then for about a year.

* Chronic cluster headaches usually do not go into remission for long. They may start with no past history of cluster headaches, or begin several years after an episodic pattern of cluster headaches has been present.

The main symptom of cluster headache is sudden, steady pain around one eye. The headache continues for 30 minutes to 2 hours, and is worsened by lying down. You can see how some would mistake them for migraine headache. Cluster headache should be treated by a physician, who may recommend inhalation of 100% oxygen.

Migraine Headache

Physicians define migraine headache as a form of vascular headache. That is, the patient experiences a combination of blood vessel enlargement and the release of chemicals from nerve fibers coiled around the blood vessels.

Only about 15 to 20 percent of people with migraine headache experience aura: the 15 to 30 minutes of visual, aural, and other disturbances. Most people with migraine headache do experience these symptoms:

* debilitating, throbbing head pain near the eye, usually on one side
* pain worsens with physical activity
* sensitivity to light/sound
* nausea or vomiting
* episodes last 4 to 72 hours, but may persist for weeks

Chronic migraine headache may require prescription medication. You should see your physician.

Tension Headache

The third type of headache is the most common, and is caused by tightening muscles in the back and shoulders. It usually results from physical or emotional stress. People describe the pain as pressure in the head, a band around the head, or pain all over the head. Symptoms that distinguish tension headache are:

* fullness, pressure, or tightness over the top of the head or at the base of the head in back
* steady pain that does not pulsate
* occasional slight nausea or even vomiting in some

Tension headache usually responds to home treatment. Hot or cold showers followed by massage of the neck muscles are often effective. Lying in a darkened room and breathing deeply may also bring relief. Many take aspirin or aspirin with caffeine for tension headache.