How Can You Control Your Migraine

From a young age, I remember my father, having “sick headaches”—my father’s migraines would make him nauseated, cause him to throw up, and leave him sick in bed for several days. When I was about 17, I began having these headaches, too. It’s one of the worst feelings in the world. A building pressure will grow worse and worse until it almost feels as if your head is going to explode, that’s how I describe it. So, I have met several doctors and also make a study on how you can manage migraine. This article might help those people out there with migraine.

According to Adam West, you need to keep a headache journal. You’ll record information about each of your headaches. Is it always on the same side of your head? Does it occur mostly on weekends? How long does it last? Note any other symptoms that you experience during your headaches. If you’re already taking medication for migraines, be sure to include in your headache journal your response to the medication and any side effects. The input you provide can be the best guide to finding the medication that’s right for you (Summer Sanders, n.d) .

Adam West said fewer than 30 % of migraine sufferers identify foods as triggers. So first, you need to determine which foods affect you. Use your headache journal to explore possible relationships between the eating of certain foods and headache. Remember that in order for a food to be considered a migraine trigger, it must be responsible for starting a typical migraine headache within 24 hours of the time it was eaten, and do that more than half the time it is eaten. It’s important to avoid incorrectly blaming certain foods for migraine headaches and starting an unnecessarily limited diet, which could do more harm than good. Sometimes, for example, people who have a migraine coming on develop a craving for sweets and may eat a chocolate bar—or two. When they get a migraine the next day, they naturally blame it on the chocolate. In fact, according to Sanders it may be that...