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- Megan, selected from Experience Life
- April 12, 2010
- 5:04 pm
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By Pamela Weintraub, Experience Life
Headaches might just be the most oppressive common malady there is. About 40 percent of us routinely suffer ordinary tension-type headaches, which range from the sensation of a tightening band to outright pounding around the head. Ninety-three percent have these headaches at least once or twice a year.
It gets worse for the additional 50 million Americans who endure migraines, which pulse and throb relentlessly on one side of the brain. Accompanied by nausea, dizziness, numbness, neck pain and a host of other physical symptoms — even hallucinations — migraines can be mild or can grind life to a halt for hours or days at a time. The most severe migraines keep people home, in darkened bedrooms, and unable to drive, withstand the light of day, work or care for their kids. About 6 million people suffer migraines every day of their lives.
A perfect cure for headaches may not be within our grasp anytime soon. But by embracing the wide range of treatments available now — from avoiding triggers and taking supplements to trying medical interventions when warranted — all but the most intractable headaches can be controlled.
Click through for the top 10 dietary triggers and 5 natural cures.
Read more: Alternative Therapies, Food, Headaches, Health, headache, migraines
Megan, selected from Experience Life
Experience Life magazine is an award-winning health and fitness publication that aims to empower people to live their best, most authentic lives, and challenges the conventions of hype, gimmicks and superficiality in favor of a discerning, whole-person perspective. Visit experiencelife.com to learn more and to sign up for the Experience Life newsletter, or to subscribe to the print or digital version.
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Bethany Wilson, we could be twin sisters as my migraine history is much like yours. I can remember to the age of 2 having such disastrous pain. (No one else in my family has migraines.) I first was given Imitrex injection at a walk-in clinic, when the drug first came out. I now get an RX from my primary doctor. You dont need to see a specialist for an RX of Imitrex. I use the injections, as the nausea usually throws out the pills. Imitrex gave me a life, too. Unfortunately, I had to remain childless because of the migraines and the meds came out too late for me to consider having a child. My pain is very erratic, can happen at any time for no reason whatsoever. I know that freshly mowed grass is a huge trigger, odor/scents are triggers. I eat nuts everyday, they are good for nutrients and diet. I don't believe they cause headaches, tho. After menopause, I still have migraines. I think I will have them to my dying day.
gluten intolerance is a big trigger for migraines for many people. and I agree with a previous commenter-it is important to stay hydrated with water. Also Chinese medicine can help greatly with migraine--even menstrual related. I am so happy to be in menopause! but one of my daughters suffers migraines like me and she comes over once a month for an acupressure treatment for her mentstrual migraines. She and I have figured out that there are several types of migraine--the menstrual are some of the hardest to deal with, food senstivites are easier once you have figured out the culprits, chemical sensitivites are another big one but harder to avoid sadly. We don't use anything toxic but we can't always control others--like obnoxious toxic perfume that people actually put on their bodies on purpose, or offices being sprayed with bug killer etc. We have found that getting away from it asap and then using milk thistle and lots of wter can help with the reaction.
Nuts? Who knew...
My period was the trigger for my migraines....now that I'm done with that I've not had one migraine since going through menopause.
Imitrex does nothing for me but nakes me sweat. But Relpax rids me of the nausea and headache in about 10 minutes. It took years for the doctors to figure that out.
Migraines are pretty common in my family, I'll have to pass this on!
One of the comments mentioned water - has anyone else found that staying very hydrated dramatically effects their occurrence of migraines?
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