What triggers it?
Below is a whole big list and some explanations of triggers
from a sufferers points of view. Causes of migraine headaches. How to stop
migraines.
Too many foods and activities can have a
triggers effect on developing the worst headache one can
get and that is migraine headache. No other
headache rivals it. The pain!
Many of the triggers
are hard to avoid and many of them won't stay in our attention
so we can't effectively remember to avoid them. I am
not going into the boring detail of all the same old same
old, that every webpage contains, but we need to mention that
migraine headache is not a childs play type of headache.
Not a deadly condition but sure feels like it. Although it
can lead to death by causing other health effects, like stroke
or heart attack. Why? Because the strain it puts on the person
having it. First of all, the feeling and fear of dying or
having a brain disease because of the unbelievable pain. If one
concentrates on this I can see it leading to a heart attack or
even a stroke as the fear causing the heart to beat faster and
irregularly thus stopping at one point although I had not heard
of this but theoratically it can happen if one is a
hypersensitive type.
Also the sufferer can fall into another devastating
condition which is depression . Depression develops
because of the persons inability of doing anything and the
feeling of guilt because of it. Guilt of not being able to
give 100% to the family, guilt of not being able to be
productive because of the migraine pain. The uncertainty of
not knowing when is it going to end when the next one will
come, what triggers it. Depression can lead to death if not
treated. Treatment for
Migraines
Here are some of the triggers:
- Some
foods;
- Heat;
- The
sun; (glaring in the eye)
- Reflection of light; (glaring in the
eye)
- The
weather; (barometric pressure, wind,
heat)
- environment; (our
surroundings)
- Mood; (nervousness)
- The
way we’ve slept the night before; (the position
of the head and neck on the
pillow)
- Crowd;
(trying to avoid bumping into each other and
going around people all the time)
- Noise;
- Smells; (parfum, cigarette smoke,
spices)
- Sudden
movement of the head or the eye; (like in
traffic)
- Going
out of our comfort zone; (not knowing what and how
exactly going to happen, is there a toilett, is there
a shady spot if hot, am I gonna be able to sit down,
who is going to be there, am I gonna be reprehanded,
Do I have to dance, if it's a party,
etc)
- Not
knowing what’s going to happen next; (no.
16)
- Work
pressure; (deadlines, smelly feet in the office,
churning stomach before leaving home,
etc)
- Fear of
the unknown; (No.13)
- Anticipation of something; (No.
14)
- The sixth sense; (like when
you have a sense of something and it’ll happen in the
next few minutes) with me at least, many times I was
thinking of something or of someone and for a
fraction of a second I had a strong feeling of the
outcome of whatever I was doing or thinking of. Like
when you think of someone and in the next minute the
phone rings and that person is calling
you).
- Unexpected events; Like
(I would be in the
store and while trying to see some item someone walks in
front of me out of the blue blocking my view as soon as I
would get a clear view of the item. I had this sense many
times and sure enough most of the time someone walked in
front of me. Or else, driving the car and no one around but
before I get to the traffic circle I have a strong sense of
someone coming right when I get there and I have to stop to
let them go because they have the right of way and sure
enough out of the clear street no one around and someone
will be at the traffic circle just when I get
there.
-
Or else I make tea and
for a split second I can see I will spill it and it’ll
happen while I am really careful not to spill
it.
(I am not even sure
what to call these split second sights but if they had
occured repeatedly they had triggered my migraines once
in a while, like knowing I will spill the tea.) They
became annoying and triggered the headache.
-
Hormonal imbalances or
changes;
- Teeth; Jaws not aligning up
and putting pressure on the facial
muscles.
- ...and many many more.
Here is the treatment for
migraines
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