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Migraine is not a serious disorder but can seriously cripple one’s ability to live life normally. The unpredictable nature and the severity with which the headache comes on, affects one’s life in many ways. It brings about lower tolerance levels for frustration, noise and fatigue. Fiction writer Carol Lewis is said to have created those strange characters and bizarre sensation in her book, Alice in Wonderland,” during the migraine attacks that she suffered. Just a small comfort for those suffering from migraine. They join the club with many well-known intellectuals like Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Thomas Jefferson.
How does a migraine attack differ from an ordinary headache?
Common headache, often called tension headaches, are usually of mild-to-moderate intensity, and have no such symptoms as nausea and visual disturbances associated with migraine. They generally occur as isolated incidents. Migraine is a headache of a severe type and tends to recur. The pain is usually confined to one side of the head but may eventually spread to the other side. It may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Classical migraine is differentiated from common migraine by the presence of a condition called aura.
Aura is an occurrence of neurological symptoms 10-30 minutes before the classical migraine attack. Symptoms such as flashing lights, double vision, zigzag pattern, mental fuzziness and mood changes are a part of it.
What are the causes of migraine?
The pain during the migraine attack is usually caused by the dilation of the arteries (vessels carrying blood) and an increase in the blood supply to the particular area in the head. This is in response to an initial contraction of the arteries caused by the trigger factors.
What are the common trigger factors?
Stress, emotional disturbances, tobacco smoke, fasting-hunger, lack of proper sleep, excessive tea or coffee intake, foods containing monosodium glutamate, hormonal changes, weather changes. Genetic predisposition is supposed to play a major role.
Homeopathy can treat the disease effectively, though it may take some time before the recurrence of headache are completely stopped. It also depends on the factors such as patient compliance, medicine intake regularity, knowledge and avoidance of trigger factors and the chronicity of migraine attacks.
With the correct prescription, one may slowly notice the problem receding, the attacks becoming less frequent and also their decreasing severity. Sanguinaria, Nux Vomica, Iris and Spigelia lead the homeopathic table in treating this disorder.
Another medicine that needs a special mention is Epiphegus, because the symptom it treats are so often found in patients, especially women. Headache comes when one deviate from one’s normal routine. It is made worse by going out in the sun, by any exertion.
Prevention tips
Keep a headache diary: This may help you in identifying the trigger factors such as foods, activities and weather
Exercise regularly: Regular exercise, yoga and relaxation techniques such as meditation can also be of great help.
Keep regular sleep patterns: Sleep adequately. Sleeping too much or too less can trigger migraine.
Watch out what you eat:Foods such as caffeine and Chinese foods that contain monosodium glucamate and chocolates cheese are well-known trigger factors.
Eat regularly: Fasting is a very common trigger in many people. If it is such a factor for you too, make sure that you eat at regular intervals.
This feature ( authored by Dr. Vikas Sharma ) was earlier published in The Tribune(north India’s largest circulated daily newspaper). Dr. Vikas Sharma is regular Homeopathic columnist for The Tribune. mail him : vikas@drhomeo.com
Dr Sharma, please help
I get more and more migraines with aura, flashing lights in vision sometimes lines, then i get the pain after but sometimes i get no pain. Strange. I get weak.
My symptoms for couple ofmyears. Extreme fatigue, ear ringing, night sweats, photophobia and strange vision when tired (hard to focus), sometimes feeling sad and want to be alone. Feeling empty in chest with deep sadness.
Dr says all my tests results ok!!!!
Very dark black eye circles. Pale face, skinny face like sunken body thin but ok.
Thank you
I have tried nat mur 30 ch. makes me very depressed.
im 20 yrs old and Ive been having constant migraine pain all day for the past month ans it has not gone away, ive had an cat scan MRI Lumbar puncture and blood test. Ive seen a nerologist but that doesnt seem to help. I have seen a homepathic doctor and he told me i have migraines. iam now taking magnesium, gelsemium, b complex head Q and clear Phlegm im on my third day with no improvement. Please help me if you can!
Sir, my 20 years old son Kumar Rishav is studying B.Tech in Bangalore. He is suffering from headache which remains 24×7 since last week of July2012. The headache is especially in the forehead between the eyebrows where we put “tilak’ and above both the ears. He is restless and we are very worried. He consulted 3 doctors, did MRI which was normal and taking the medicine prescribed by them. He consulted an eye doctor who tested and found some minor cylindrical error. He then started using spects from last month. There is no relief to him even after that. I have asked him to stop all alopathic medicine because it does help even after three months. I want now to switch over to Homeopathic treatment. Kindly help/suggest/advice me the any treatment which can help my son. He is a good student but he could notconcentrate in study. His fifth semester exam is near. Please help.
My son Mobile number is 09738863054 (Bangalare).
Diwakar Maharaj, Father of Kumar Rishav, Tura, Meghalaya.Mobile number 09436995577.
Dear Dr. my name is Anil niwaria, working in University college of medical sciences (UCMS), university of delhi. my son anshuman, 11 years old, has Tonsillitis for last some years. is there some medicine to cure it. my cell number is: 9891333849.
PLEASE MAIL ME ANY PERMANENT TREATMENT IS AVAILABLE FOR MIGRAINE HEADACHE.PLEASE HELP ME GOD BLESS YOU.HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..HELP…..mEE
Sir, I have consulted almost 50% of the homeopaths in Chandigarh, but no results. I consider myself as the most chronic case in the city.
I have been suffering from constant headache from the last over 15 years, with fear, hurry & worry, nervousness, blocked nose, especially on lying down, which makes my sleep restless. I have not enjoyed the fressness of sleep from the last 15 years. I am over-sensitive. I cannot find any treatment for my headache. Sir, will you please help me.
hi,…..
actually mujhe nahi pata whether i get migrain or not but the symptoms are somewhat similar…….i usually get pain when i get a sound sleep and it starts as such………
i have had alot of medicines but the doctors are not able to diagnose it properly…..
so plz do reply on my problem??/
DR SHARMA PLEASE WRITE ON MEMORY LOSS