Have you ever imagined elephants dancing on your head?Or has anyone tried to crush your head from both the sides? well that is migraine. The worst nightmares come into being when you have this terrible trauma.
People often ask me what is migraine? what causes it? is it curable?
The word migraine is French in origin and comes from the Greek hemicrania, as does the Old English term megrim. Literally, hemicrania means “half (the) head”. If I have to define migraine I will say that it is one extreame headache which pesters probably every 6 of the 10 people.A typical migraine is one in which there is immense pain in one side of the head.The patient usually vomits after a nausea sensation.Unfortunately those who have a different type of migraine have to undergo more problems.
I’m among the unfortunate ones.The pain is aggreviated by almost anything and everything.And the worst part of treatment is even the doctor is unaware of the causal factor. In reality people know what causes AIDS but they are unable to determine the causes of these chronic headaches.Still various researches and tests have deduced some triggers for the same.
Patients often describe triggers they feel precipitate an episode of migraine, such as certain foods and beverages (like chocolate or alcohol), stress or menstruation or high pitch sound or high intensity light or smoke or lack of proper sleep.In reality no one can determine the triggers precisely. In my case the trigger was the consumption of raw onion.Well in your case it may be caffeine. No matter what you do nothing can cure you completely.Its like your soulmate and in any case you cant divorce it.
Although the pain kills you softly.There are some remedies to kill the pain itself.One of them being pranayam(yoga) and meditation.This tremendously helps you to cope up with stress ,depression and any kind of health hazard.The other being the deep breathing techniques which help to bring oxygen to your veins.Supplements of Riboflavin,Magnesium Citrate,Vitamin B12 etc can also help.But the best cure for it is to exercise regularly.
According to me the only cure to migraine is patience,the Patienceto deal with pain… If you possess this attribute you would never enter the vicious cycle of stress and headache in which one causes the other.
