| Life comes to a standstill during a migraine. | | | | vessel inflammation that can lead to a migraine. |
| Everything hurts and every activity takes extra | | | | Another way of treating migraines is to fine-tune |
| effort. You want your head to stop pounding and | | | | everyone's healing for themselves. The idea here |
| for your life to get back to normal. A migraine is | | | | is to have the person take fewer drugs, avoid as |
| a throbbing, debilitating pain that affects hundreds | | | | many side effects as possible and gain control |
| of millions of people around the world each day. | | | | over their condition. By looking at the patterns of |
| Most people instantly take over-the-counter | | | | when a migraine headache occurs, you also start |
| medication, but if the migraine is severe enough, | | | | to learn what triggers it. Once you know this, you |
| these won't take care of the pain. This is why | | | | can take steps or prescribed medication during |
| some people are trying new migraine treatments | | | | the window of time you'd best benefit from it. |
| to help alleviate the pain and eliminate symptoms. | | | | Finding the right time to take your migraine |
| It wasn't until the 1980s that researchers were | | | | medication is very important, almost as important |
| able to put together strong enough drugs to stop | | | | as finding the right medicine. The FDA is currently |
| migraine pain once it began. However with some | | | | researching a migraine treatment called Trexima, |
| of these drugs came serious side effects. Some | | | | which combines the migraine drug Imitrex and |
| people simply couldn't take them because the | | | | naproxen sodium (contained in Aleve and other |
| migraine drugs didn't mix well with medications for | | | | over-the-counter medications). This drug stops |
| heart disease or other conditions. Another | | | | blood vessels from dilating - which is the main |
| downside was if the drug wasn't taken during the | | | | source of pain in a migraine headache. |
| first hour of a migraine, it wasn't a lot of help. | | | | For those who can't take drugs or aren't happy |
| This is why anyone suffering from migraines is | | | | with the possibility of side-effects, there are a |
| interested in any new treatments being | | | | few new supplements showing promise - |
| developed. Doctors are also focusing more on | | | | magnesium, riboflavin, and coenzyme Q10. |
| prevention and working to disable a migraine | | | | It makes sense to combine healthy eating, |
| headache before it ever starts. One suggestion is | | | | exercise and cutting back on drinking alcohol and |
| to take preventative drugs regularly to help stop | | | | smoking (or cutting them out) to give your body |
| the headaches from ever starting. These drugs | | | | the best possible chance of fending off migraine |
| work with chemicals in the brain and/or on blood | | | | headaches. |