Pain Relief Info Guide

A migraine is more than a headache – it’s the mother of all headaches (perhaps just behind ‘cluster’ headache, which must be the daddy!)

People often describe their bad headache as a migraine – but is it? or are they just prone to exaggeration.

What is a migraine and what are the causes of migraine?

Symptoms of a migraine vary between individual sufferers, but usually involve a combination of the following effects: Distorted vision, blind spots or zig zag lines, a feeling of nausea, maybe even being sick, a headache, often to one side of the head. The pain can be severe. I have often described the headache as feeling as though I’ve been hit over the head with a baseball bat. Other symptoms include a dislike of bright lights and loud noise.

Another symptom I have suffered is a difficulty in thinking clearly – not being able to remember the names of people or even common everyday objects.

Symptoms can last from 2 to 12 hours for the majority of sufferers, although some people take literally days to recover.

Like many I usually head straight to a dark room to sleep it off. People fail to see why you can’t just carry on with a ‘headache’. If only they knew.

There are two types of migraine – classic which features the aura or distortion in vision, and common migraine which doesn’t. Migraine is more common in women with a quater of all women effected – only around one in twelve men suffer.

The frequency may vary from every couple of days to a couple of times a year.

The causes of migraine headache are not entirely understood, however it is believed to be connected to a series of triggers. It may well be that one trigger isn’t enough – a combination may be needed to set you off. I find that hunger along with stress is tempting fate. Others blame red wine, chocolate, cheese

I can tell when a migraine is coming from an almost instant blind spot appearing in my field of vision. Once this ‘aura’ starts, that’s it. Get to a dark room fast. My aura usually lasts for about half an hour – then it’s over to the headache.

Well things are changing for me now.

I tried various things. paracetamol  which are of no use to me, migraleve, these might help – I was never really sure and my last medication was Imigran. This certainly cured the zig zag lines in my vision but actually made the headache worse. I stopped taking these as I found that I felt much rougher for a couple of days after. It was like waking up after a fight with Mike Tyson.

Last year I came across a natural cure - now I’m OK. I won’t waste time giving you a sales message, all I’ll say is it worked for me and you should come and take a look. Visit www.causeofmigraines.com to see what I found, you will be glad you did.