Migraine is not specifically a type of headache.
Brenda Van Niekerk
Headaches are just one of the symptoms of the disease. There are many others which vary from partial blindness and deafness to numbness in the hands and arms. The face can also go partially numb as well as the lips and tongue in some patients. Speech can be slurred and a dull feeling can occur in the head.
There are various other symptoms that sufferers can experience. Not all attacks will be the same. This is a disabling disease and can attack at any time.
Once you have positively been diagnosed with migraine do not see it as a life sentence. It can be managed.
Diarise all the data just prior to an attack, food types and emotional state. By regularly doing this you will be able to see a pattern of events emerging. You can then start eliminating food types one by one and you will eventually realise what food types are detrimental to you if that is the cause of migraine.
Emotional pattern is easier to discern. You will then be able to train yourself not to get over tired or stressed. Letting go of your anger versus bottling up your emotions could be the answer.
Try and avoid any situation that you believe to be triggering off your attacks. If the migraine attacks are being triggered off by diet it is best to eliminate these foods from the diet. If you are not sure what exactly is triggering off your attacks, start eliminating suspect foods one at a time. When you are sure that the eliminated food type is not the culprit you can re introduce it back into your diet again. You will with time be able to pinpoint which food substance it is that is the culprit.
It might not just be one food type but could be a combination of things. It could be a whole group of food. For instance, if cheese is causing the attacks you can be sure that all dairy products will be having some negative effect on you, in a lesser or greater degree. Many sufferers find that ice cream triggers off the attacks and this will be traced back to the dairy product in the ice cream. If stress is the culprit, try changing your lifestyle so that you will have the minimum amount of stress to cope with.
As migraine is a common disease most people will at some time or another experience an attack. It may just be one attack in a life time or it could become a regular occurrence. Migraines affect about 15% of the population. Many people refer to any headache as a migraine. This is not so and you can have just a headache from stress or from a bump or something else. All headaches are not migraine.
This disease attacks many more women than men. Statistics show that 2 in 4 women will be sufferers and men only 1 in 12.
Preservatives and additives in food could cause an allergy to these substances could trigger off a migraine attack. Make a note of this in your migraine diary so that you will be aware of the fact when you ate something containing additives.
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