migraine solutions?
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The best treatment for migraine is the one tailored to your condition. It will help if you understand your treatment options for migraine. Talk to your healthcare professional about your headaches and other symptoms
Depending on what you and your healthcare professional decide, your migraine treatment will fall into one of two broad categories:
Migraine prophylaxis (prevention medicine)
This approach to treating migraine involves medicine taken regularly to decrease the total number of migraine headaches you get. Migraine prevention medicine keeps migraine attacks from even starting. Find out if you could benefit from migraine prevention.
One option for migraine prevention is
TOPAMAX® (topiramate). TOPAMAX is a migraine prevention medicine that helps reduce the frequency of your migraine headaches, so you can get fewer of them.
Acute migraine pain relief therapy
This approach involves pain relief medicines that you take only when you have migraine headache pain or feel one coming on. Taken early enough, acute migraine pain relief medicines can ease the pain of a migraine attack. Acute migraine pain relief medicines that belong to the class of drugs known as triptans have made great strides in the treatment of migraine. See if you can get help with acute migraine pain relief medicine.
One medicine for acute migraine pain relief is a triptan named AXERT® (almotriptan malate) tablets. AXERT can provide an effective combination of fast and lasting acute migraine pain relief. In clinical trials, some patients reported pain relief as soon as 30 minutes after taking AXERT. See if AXERT can help you!
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Go and take a advice of a consultant in Neuron Surgeon.
The doctor will give you best advice about this.
I would suggest that you go back to your neurologist. He/she may want to do an MRI, and pending the outcome of that, may change your medication.
I get migranes, too. Stress, lack of sleep, coffee, and chocolate are my major triggers. I also get them the week before my period which is just a hormonal thing. Fiorecette with Codeine has been most helpful. Also, taking a nap with a small ice pack under my neck helps slow the blood flow. I hope you feel better.
I apologize in advance for the long-winded answer. But I too suffer from migraines. Many things can cause them:
Food Migraine Triggers
alcoholic beverages
sodium-nitrite-laden meat (hot dogs, deli meats, etc.)
MSG (monosodium glutamate) (see migraine glossary) (food additive found in some processed meats, soups, salad dressings, etc.)
aspartame (artificial sweetener)
chocolate
citrus fruit
tyramine (chemical found in aged cheese)
caffeine (chemical found in coffee, tea, soda, chocolate, etc.)
nuts
onions
beans
pickled herring
dried smoked fish
dairy products
sour cream
yogurt (yeast extracts)
fatty foods
Physical Migraine Triggers
lack of sleep or too much sleep
irregular sleep patterns
napping
head trauma
physical exertion
fatigue
vigorous activity (for instance, exercise)
sudden or intense exertion
irregular meal patterns
skipped meals
Hormonal Migraine Triggers
menstruation (including premenstrual)
ovulation
hormone supplements
Psychological Migraine Triggers
stress (see migraine glossary)
post-stress activity
anxiety or worry
depression
Environmental Migraine Triggers
glare or bright light
flashing or flickering lights
fluorescent lighting
weather changes
strong odors (bad or good)
repetitive visual patterns (stripes, zigzags, etc.)
air pollution
secondhand smoke
chemical fumes
motion or travel
Drug/Chemical Migraine Triggers
nitroglycerine
histamine
reserpine (hypertension drug)
hydralazine (drug that lowers blood pressure)
diuretics
anti-asthma medications
Treatment
Conventional treatment focuses on three areas: trigger avoidance, symptomatic control, and preventive drugs. Patients who experience migraines often find that the recommended treatments are not 100% effective at preventing migraines.
Trigger avoidance
Patients can attempt to identify and avoid factors that promote or precipitate migraine episodes. Moderation in alcohol and caffeine intake, consistency in sleep habits, and regular meals may be helpful. Beyond an often pronounced placebo effect, general dietary restriction has not been demonstrated to be an effective approach to treating migraine.
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Try keeping a food diary, certain foods trigger some of mine.(raw onion, ice cream, hot dogs-unless all beef,others) I also get them, randomly. Have experimented with different medications for years. Some prescribed, some OTC. and some natural. The best remedy I have found is CoQ10, its an enzyme and can be bought at any drug store in the vitamin section. GOOD LUCK I know how bad they make you feel.
Once an Ayurvedic Doctor in Asia gave me a little reddish powder for me to inhale a small amount which could be held with the two finger tips. When I inhaled it the upper part of the nostrils started slightly burning and thereafter I started to sneeze. I sneezed may be for about 3 or 4 minutes. Then a lot of Nose Juice started flowing from my nose. After a few minutes the heahache was gone. Later I learnt that this was a mixture of Chilli Powder with other herbal powder. Now I have finished the powder.
Any way after that what I do is to roll a small piece of paper and insert it into my nostrils and roll it inside to tickle the top of my nose. This has the same effect of the powder and start to sneeze in the same way; and the nose juice start to flow.
The Ayurvedic principle is that the headache is due to the accumulation of phlem in the glands on the forehead. If you can get the phlem to flow out the headache ends.
I use to take prescription pain medication for them but now I take prescription Imitrex. It's not a pain pill and it's not addicting. It's designed to specifically treat migrains and it works great! However, in pill form, it can sometimes cause nausea. I think the shots are better and have not experience any nausea with them. also, they work within about 5 minutes
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