Migraines

Treatment and Cause of Migraines Jochon D. Dobbins The Academy of Health Care Professions Abstract The word migraine is a Greek word which means “half of head”. It is thought that people who suffer from Migraines usually experience pain on one side of their head. There are several signs or symptoms that are usually associated with migraines. Here are some examples. * Tiredness * Sensitivity to light * Nausea or vomiting * Sensitivity to certain smells * Reaction to eating

my life I began to experience migraines. At first, I assumed they were headaches. My knowledge of migraines was limited. I knew that my migraines begin as a mild pain in my forehead (a headache), and progress to pain on the sides of my head accompanied by intense throbbing. This pain causes me to have a sensitivity to light and sound, I cannot focus, and they usually last a matter of hours. Occasionally they are longer, as sometimes I will go to bed with a migraine and wake up with it still there

afflictive are adjectives that my mind conceives when experiencing a migraine. The word migraine has become ingrained in my vocabulary as a menacing antagonist. The migraines took the last two years as its hostage, and are a merciless captor. Also, migraines have managed to grasp onto the thresholds of my education. For instance, during the second semester of junior year I missed twenty-two days of school. This is a side-effect of being a migraine sufferer and presents the challenge of missing course work

Migraines Migraine, Medical condition that many people have to deal with. This is how to identify the signs of a migraine, what a migraine simply is, what happens during a migraine attack, triggers and how to diagnose it. The cause of a migraine could be many different things. This research paper could help out a lot pf people who may have not yet experienced a migraine attack. A migraine attack is one of the hardest illnesses to diagnose but a migraine could also lead to other things more severe

Migraine headaches are the result of a disturbance in the neurochemistry of the central nervous system. They are relatively common, affecting three times as many women as men. Migraine sufferers typically report a definite pattern to their headaches, and they can report what stimuli bring them on. Most migraine sufferers experience their first attack before the age of 20. There is no single cause of migraines, but the tendency to get migraines does tend to run in families. When a migraine occurs

I have had migraines since I was 5 years old. At first my migraine disorder was episodic, meaning I had fewer than 15 attacks a month. After college, I started working at an incredibly challenging job, and the stresses of the real world hit me hard. Since then my disorder has become chronic, and I have migraines almost every single day. To this day, stress is one of my biggest triggers. My migraines vary in levels of pain, but are an all over extreme stabbing, pulsing, squeezing, searing head pain

Migraines are more than severe headaches; their symptoms include much more than pain in the head and, therefore, are a different health condition than headaches. The migraine is divided into four different stages, prodrome, aura, attack, and postdrome. Each stage has its own set of symptoms. The prodrome occurs days before the actual episode. It has some recognizable symptoms, such as food cravings, depression, irritability, and constipation. However, these are often overlooked because they are subtle

Migraine and Evidence-based pharmacology Introduction In the current medical practices, there are several treatment options. The pharmaceutical industry produces so many drugs that perform similar functions (Chaitow&Schoenen, 2013). However, the pharmacokinetics of the drugs are quite different. Moreover, all the drugs in the market have different side effects and toxicity profiles. The same drug tends to behave differently in different people. Therefore, doctors are faced with hardships when choosing

(2013),” If you have migraines, you know migraines can touch many areas of your life. A Migraine is more than “just a headache” or a pain disorder―migraine can change how your go about your day, how you feel about yourself, and how you interact with important people in your life” (p. 1). According to Ellen Welch (20103), a migraine is a disorder thought to affect 2-15 percent of the world's population (p. 45). Among those migraines is a condition called Hemiplegic Migraine. At the first occurrence

A migraine is the most common, recurrent, severe primary headache that affects at least 12% of the adult population in the United States or more than 28 million people. Migraine is now recognized as a neurologic process. It is characterized by an intense, throbbing, unilateral headache associated with anorexia, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia, and/or diarrhea and may last 4-72 hours. There are three types of migraines: common migraine, classic migraine, and basilar migraine. A common