Female: Nearly 28 million American suffer from migraine headache each year. But what exactly is a migraine headache?
Stephen Silberstein Migraine disabling painful recurring headaches that are often, but always one sided. Migraines have had dramatic impact in both American history and culture. During the civil war, both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant suffered from prolonged and repeated migraine headaches.
As well, Thomas Jefferson and during migraine will help him to author the decoration of independence and the constitution.
Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll was also a migraine suffer. In fact, contemporary doctors had suggested that much of the king’s well published drug use was actually attempt to self medicate his headaches as suppose to the hedonistic pursued.
Determining if you have a migraine headache can be tricky. Patient experience a wild variety of symptoms associated with a migraine headaches, which means there is no such thing as a typical migraine.
However, when suffering from migraine attack, people usually are sick to their stomach and often vomit. There are number of other symptoms are commonly experience by migraine sufferers.
Migraine headaches typically begin as a doll ache and progressing to a throbbing pain. Typically, migraine last 4 to 12 hours, although particularly bad migraines can last as long as a week.
When a patient is suffering from migraine headache, they are often very sensitive to light, sounds and certain odors. Also many migraine suffers have difficulty thinking and feel off balance.
If one or more of these symptoms is presents especially inability to function or nausea is very light the headache is migraine. The symptoms are quite different from the symptom of other common types of headaches.
About 20% of migraine patients often experience an aura before and during their headache. An aura, the physiologic warning sign when a migraine headache is about begin.
When patient experience visual auras, they often see bright spots or juggled lines. Some patients have sensory auras. Pins a needle feeling that starting with the arm and move up the arm.
Really patients have sent related auras. When they smell something, but not actually it is not there. Auras of the classic symptoms of migraine. If you are experiencing an aura, prior to the onset of your headache and it is very likely that you are suffering from migraine.
Today, they are number of treatments that can provide affective, lasting relief from migraine headache sufferers.
To learn about medications which can prevent you from getting migraine as well as medications capable of controlling the attack after it begins, be sure to checkout other short videos available in the series.
Remember migraine can be difficult to self diagnosed. So if you believe that you have migraine, your first step is to see a physician with an interest in headache.
The movies in these series can be viewed in any order. If you wish to watch these clips in their original sequence, then the next clip is migraine auras through the looking glass.
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