Headaches and alternative treatment options…
Almost everyone has experienced a headache in their lives. It is top of the list for most common pains, and possibly the major underlying excuse in your life if you miss something. It may come up suddenly while you are sitting at your desk and working on a challenging task, at a stressful moment, or even at your sleep! You may feel a belt is tightened around your head or can even be a throbbing type of pain. Some of the headaches are periodic and a concomitant nausea may be felt. With the involvement of stress as a factor, the pain might strike at the neck as well. Do all these sound familiar with your experiences?
If your answer is yes, it means that you have suffered a type of headache. Headaches can occur on its own or as an outcome of other health related circumstances. You are not alone, even almost two thirds of children will experience headaches by the age of fifteen. More than 90% of adults will have it sometime in life. As I said earlier, it is the most common type of pain that we all go through sometime in our lives. And you know what, certain types of pain are genetically pass through families! Types or episodes might alter or disappear throughout your life, but the most important thing is to know why it comes and how it goes…
A headache, scientifically named as cephalalgia, is a pain you feel somewhere at the head or neck region. Headache is a non-specific symptom, as it can be experienced on its own for some no reason, it may also come out as a symptom due to various medical conditions of the head and neck. It may be vascular, spine, muscle, infection, or inflammation related.
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... another study is that abrupt discontinuation of feverfew after long-term use may stimulate a type of withdrawal syndrome that may cause rebound headaches. The ingredients parthenolide and tanetin helps to reduce inflammation just like ginger, and removes the pressure of the nerves. The chronic use may prevent migraines entirely, but never forget about the possibility of rebound headaches. An easier alternative way to stop the migraine attacks if from traditional Chinese medicine, the acupressure massage! It may be surprising but just place your index finger in the depression between your first and second toe and press firmly for about 5 minutes. Try if it works out, its just simple as that if your migraine is not a chronic one. For chronic migraines FDA has approve to use Botox injections, which help a lot to prevent migraine attacks for a period of 6 months.
The borders between the different forms are very fluid and the specific conditions are often misdiagnosed as a strong migraine, causing the patients to suffer significant pain before treatment is started. Which directly links to another problem: The treatment. Oxygen treatment seems promising, yet it is not readily available to the patients. Orally administered triptans are usually too weak and nasally administered triptans (e.g. ZOMIG) cannot be used in a sufficient frequency to relieve the pain during the whole day, especially in the case of Paroxysmal Hemicrania where attacks are generally of shorter duration yet of higher intensity. Therefore, patients still need to resort to taking a significant amount of painkillers which is medically problematic since an attack period can last up to several months or even years in the case of chronic conditions which 10-15% of cluster headache patients suffer from.
... concern with a fungus-based drug class called the ergotamine derivatives (e.g., dihydroergotamine), which also act as agonists at 5-HT receptors throughout the body and are much less specific than the triptans. Because of this potential for additive effects, administration of triptans and ergotamine derivatives should be separated by 24 hours. Lastly, overuse of acute migraine medications can lead to rebound headache symptoms known as “medication-overuse headache,” though the medications most commonly associated with this are opiates and analgesics, not triptans. Triptan-related medication-overuse headache is much more relegated to populations of men with high headache frequency. Nevertheless, it is still recommended for patients to restrict their intake of acute “rescue” migraine medication, including triptans, to 2 or 3 days per week to avoid rebound headache.
Patient is a 19-year-old right-handed white male who presents with his mother for evaluation of frequent headaches. He did not have headaches prior to two grade 1 concussions while playing football in 2012. At that time, he had a normal MRI. He has been having headaches since. He did see Kent Logan, MD in 2012, at which point he was describing weekly headaches with photophobia, phonophobia, and nausea. At that time, according to Dr. Logan's notes, there was no aura with his headaches. He noted that trying one of his mother's Imitrex helped with the headache, so he was given a prescription for 50 mg. He was also diagnosed as having a whiplash injury, at that time. He did undergo physical therapy for his neck. He also was complaining of some short-term memory problems at that time, but neuropsychology testing was negative. He has not followed up with Dr. Logan since then. More recently, his headaches have been increasing in frequency. They are located in the left retrobulbar and super orbital area, but then will spread throughout the left side of the head and then bilaterally. The pain is steady when it is milder, but throbbing when it is worse, and it is worsened with exertion. There is photophobia, phonophobia, osmophobia, nausea. They can last one to two hours. Most often, he does have
It may come as a surprise to learn that an orgasm may be more effective at curing a headache than pain medication. As it turns out, the release of endorphins in the brain during sexual stimulation may be the cause of the relief that 60% of migraine sufferers reported during a study conducted by researcher and neurologist Dr. Stefan Evers. (link 1) So, next time you have a major headache, you might consider reaching for that bottle of Jergens instead of Tylenol.
Migraines, which are three times more dominant in women than in men, are characterized by frequent attacks of moderate to severe, painful headaches that are often associated with nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to sound and light. This headache pain typically occurs on one side of the head and is described as pulsing, pounding or throbbing pain lasting 4-72 hours if left untreated. Migraines may also present with or without an aura (sensory warning symptoms).1
Maybe you had no clue what these symptoms indicated at the time, but you may soon discover that you could have suffered from a migraine so it is important that you are aware of this debilitating illness for possible future occurrences.
One of the most common symptoms related to these untreated injuries include headaches. To effectively treat a headache, the chiropractor needs to have the skills necessary to diagnose the type of headache a patient is experiencing. One headache that our chiropractors frequently treat is caused by tension and stress in the cervical spine. These headaches are very responsive to chiropractic care and other forms of physical medicine.
Headaches occur when the trigeminal nerve that originates on the bottom of the brain that reaches the face, ears, and eyes. It has pain receptors called nociceptors that carry the signals of pain to the thalamus which then can be triggered by hunger, curtain foods, odors, and stress. The thalamus then sends a message to the brain that initiates the pain, and now the individual feels that they have a headache (Pray, 2014). The vast array of headache types are believed to be a whopping one-hundred fifty different types, but the NINDS has categorized them into four different classifications that have specific traits. Such as vascular headaches, tension headaches, traction headaches, and inflammatory headaches (Pray,
Tension headaches can be a mild or moderate pain but most notably, people describe it as a tight band around the head. It is the most common headache
There have been many reports of people drinking caffeine as medicine for headaches, but some complain and say that caffeine gives them headaches or migraines. That means those people could have drank one of many drinks that contain of caffeine in them.
Migraines are not as common as many believe, actually, only about 12 percent of the U.S population gets migraines (Reinald Shyti, Boukje de Vries, Arn van den Maagdenberg, 2011). The recurring headache can range anywhere from moderate to severe. There are four stages of symptoms starting with Prodrome symptoms which occur one to two days before a migraine attack. Prodrome symptoms include constipation, mood changes, food cravings, neck stiffness, increased thirst and urination, and frequent yawning. The second stage is Aura which lasts for about 20 to 60 minutes and may occur before or during a migraine. Symptoms of the Aura stage include flashes of light, vision loss, pins and needles sensation in arm or leg, numbness or weakness on face or one side of the body, speech difficulty, hearing noise or music, and uncontrollable jerking. The third stage is the Attack stage that can lasts 72 hours if not treated. Symptoms of the attack stage include pain on one side or both sides of the head, pain that feels throbbing or pulsing, extreme sensitivity to light and sound, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, and lightheadedness sometimes followed by fainting. The last stage is Post-dromed symptoms which occur after a migraine.
Have you ever experienced a migraine or headache when you were stressed or upset? You often experience these migraines or headaches and repeated dose of medication does seem to help the problem permanently. If this case, you are suffering from a psychosomatic disease or disorder. A psychosomatic disease is a disease or disorder that involves the mind and body. Psychosomatic means mind (psyche) and body (soma). An example of a psychosomatic disease that involves the mind and body are migraine headaches. A migraine is a headache that has many symptoms. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and the sensitivity to light. People who suffer from this, they can experience a throbbing pain that is felt on one side of the head. The pain is generally made worse by physical activity.
The study was geared to women over the age of 18. Those who reported headaches that were not considered migraines or did not speak English were excluded. Each person was interviewed for about 45 (forty-five) minutes to an hour. Among the participants, the stories became repetitive by the time they interviewed the eighth
Migraines can be triggered by lights, smells, or sounds. During changes of these senses, nociceptors are releases in the brain that relax and dilate blood vessels and muscle tissues to increase blood flow. This causes swelling in the area from cranial vessels leaking due to the neuropeptides released by the nociceptors, the brain cells that release pain. Being as no definitive test exists for finding migraines or the true cause of them, MRIs or CT scans are used to rule out possible other factors of the head pains such as blood clots in the blood veins or tumors within the
What is a migraine? A migraine is extreme pain in your head that can cause you to see different things. Usually migraines happen on one side of the head. Headaches are different for every person. The pain in migraines are extremely painful. All though every person that gets migraines has different experiences with pain. People that have migraines often may experience different symptoms every time they get a migraine. Migraines have been a life changing thing to many people. They are more common in women than men because of hormones.