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Do You Know These Facts About Migraine Headaches ?
Wendy Brungardt
A typical migraine headache involves pain on one side of the head, either starting in, or staying centered around the eye, although suffers can experience the pain bi- laterally as well.
Because migraines cause an irritation and swelling of the blood vessels and nerves in the brain, pain is often described as throbbing or pounding that is so severe, the patient is unable to function at daily tasks, or to sleep, since many migraines can start at night.
This should not be confused with cluster headaches that can also start at night, but which are associated with sinus problems or nasal stuffiness, producing a one-sided orbital (eye) headache. While labeled "migrainous neuralgia", cluster headaches are not migraines.
They are a distinctive order of their own, occurring in bursts of 1-3 headaches in a day, over a period of days or weeks, with a long remission between episodes. Typical migraine sufferers will average headaches on a fairly regular basis.
Migraine headache sufferers may or may not experience an aura. These auras can be visual in nature, e.g. fuzziness around objects, sparks on the outer edge of their field of vision, or they can be physical, e.g. numbness in the face or extremities, tingling, vertigo.
Those who do have auras, generally find they occur 10-30 minutes prior to the onset of a headache. People who do not have auras, may find after keeping a headache diary, that their migraines are sometimes preceded by depressions or tiredness.
Migraine headaches tend to build in intensity for 1-2 hours
from the first symptoms, and then gradually subside. They
can last up to 24 hours, and in extreme cases, for several
days.
About the Author
For many years, Wendy suffered regular migraines. Finally she decided to find out everything she could about these unpleasant headaches. Now she's written a series of articles to share her findings with other sufferers.
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