Lifestyle changes are inevitable during the beginning stages of your chronic condition of migraines. One said change that should be considered is planning out your schedule in advance so that you know how to manage and not run into any surprises because surprise could inflame your condition beyond what it already is. Event like family outings, work appointments and other events should be made under the impression that they could canceled if you are experiencing a migraine episode. Another change that can be a probability for your migraine condition is minimizing or stopping certain activities that you used to enjoy. Going to the beach or listening to your favorite band really loud can all antagonize your migraine symptoms and intensify the condition itself. Also there are other activities and hobbies that could also be a detriment to your treatment so they should be avoided if at all possible.
Suffering Through The Difference
Some forty million people put up with headaches throughout a given year making headaches a very common complaint, the concern is not that a headache has occurred but the frequency of the headache as well as the length in which the headache last. If frequent headaches (not migraines) occur and last longer than a few hours, medical attention might be needed in order to insure that the pain being felt is truly a headache and not something morePay close attention to the next few points as they should explain in more detail what a headache versus a migraine looks like.
- A headache attacks quickly and with no warning where as a migraine we learned has preemptive warning signs.
- Migraines can last up to three days headaches a few hours.
- Headaches feel more like a pulsing feeling inside your head; migraines on the other hand tend to be felt only on one side of the head.
- Some level of irritability might occur with a headache but typically subsides after some over the counter medicine has been taken, sadly those suffering with a migraine do not bounce back as quickly.
- Feelings of nausea, dizziness, sensitivity to light and sound are all characters of a migraine and will not be present with a headache.
Massage Therapy
A trained massage therapist can use their hands to work out the tension in one’s neck and back muscles which can be leading cause or triggers of migraine headaches. The sub-occipital muscles, which start at the lower base of the skull and run to the bottom of the spine, are in direct correlation with the migraine trigger aspect of these muscles. One thing that must warned against here is that a deep-tissue massage or Swedish massage can actually increase the intensity of the migraine instead of minimizing the effects.
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