The term “Headache” or “Migraine” is so common that we often don’t realize the extent of the pain, discomfort, and sometimes nausea that sufferers are experiencing. Many migraine sufferers find their quality of life and that of their loved ones gradually diminishing as they try to smile through their pain. Tension headaches can feel like tension on one side of the head. These headaches are often caused by stress or poor posture. This causes tightening of the muscles in your neck, upper back, and scalp.
Headaches Types
This type of headache is most common in women over 20, but it can happen to anyone. Migraine headaches can be intense and throbbing. They often present on one side of your head and can also include sensitivity to light and noise.
Aura – visual symptoms – can be experienced by some migraine sufferers just before an attack. Migraine sufferers may also experience nausea. Although migraines aren’t well understood, doctors agree that they are caused in part by swelling of blood vessels in brain.
Cluster headaches are usually located on one side, and more often around and behind the eyes. They are more common in men and can last for up to 45 minutes. They usually occur between one to four times per day. Cluster headaches, which are similar to migraines, can be caused by increased blood flow due to the brain’s blood vessels widening.
Management
What can you do to manage headaches? Although most headaches do not have serious underlying causes it is rare for them to be severe. Sometimes severe headaches can be a sign that there are more serious causes, such as tumours or meningitis, or temporal arteritis. You should seek medical attention immediately if you experience severe headaches that last more than 24 hours, are persistent, or are accompanied by symptoms like vomiting or abnormal vision. If you’ve been suffering from severe headaches for a long time, your doctor should conduct a physical exam and determine if additional tests, such as a CT scan, MRI, or other tests, are necessary.
Most headache sufferers end taking painkillers, anti-inflammatory medications, and, in the case of migraines triptans, ergotamines. As with all medications, they can have side effects. It is best to avoid them if you can. There are many things you can do to relieve headaches and migraines, even if you don’t need to take strong medication. After suffering from severe headaches since my first year in medical practice, and working with a long-term sufferer of migraines, we decided to do some research.
Conclusion
I spent many months researching the best treatments for migraines, including osteopathy in the UK, acupuncture, herbal medicine, homoeopathy in Eastern Europe, and osteopathy in the UK. After absorbing the best of the best, the treatment we developed was one that we could apply to ourselves. After further testing, the results were amazing. Finally, we offered the treatment to our patients. Later, we simplified the entire process so that patients could treat themselves at home. We were still amazed by the results and decided to teach patients how to treat themselves at home, instead of sending them to the clinic.