Migraine headaches is one type of headache that many complain about. Migraine attacks was tortured because the symptoms are not just a regular headache. It is not yet known exactly what causes migraines.
Migraine attacks may be unique and different for every individual. There are some signs or symptoms that usually occur a few days before the migraine attack. According to Robert Cowan, MD, a neurologist from Stanford University School of Medicine, the key to determine the cause of migraine is concerned about the environment and understand what can trigger headaches.
Here are some common signs of a migraine attack that you should be aware of:
1. Evaporate
One or two days before a migraine attack, you may be more frequent than usual evaporate. For most, this condition is often annoying, but this can be a signal or warning to you to initiate the treatment of migraine. Early warning signs of another that generally coincided with yawning is fluid retention, food cravings, fatigue, thirst, and personality changes, says Dr. Cowan.
2. Aura Aura is a kind of effect that causes impaired vision. Migern Patients usually experience visual disturbances in the form of black dots, lines, dizzy, and flashes of light. Vision disturbances (blurred vision) as a sign would be wary of the emergence of a migraine attack.
In premenopausal women, the aura should be even more wary. The reason, experience an aura before a migraine may increase the risk of stroke. "We advise women not to smoke or take birth control pills or doing anything that may increase the risk of heart disease," said Cowan.
3. Some of the signs and symptoms of nausea in migraine sufferers generally mixed. Nausea is a key component of a migraine trigger. "If you have a headache without nausea, you do not have a migraine," said Cowan. In addition to nausea, other gastrointestinal disorders such as vomiting and diarrhea should be wary.
4. Pain on one side of the head Tension headaches or other types of headaches tend to cause headaches overall, or at least evenly on both sides. Pain on one side of the head accompanied by nausea is a sign you are not the type of migraine and other headaches.
Generally more severe migraine pain when added to physical activity. Migraine sufferers may also experience pain as throbbing, feeling beaten, drawn-tensile, fatigue, making it difficult to carry out daily activities.
5. Sensitive to light People who have migraines often complain of headaches are accompanied by an acute sensitivity to noise or light. For some people, light, sound, and certain smells can trigger a migraine. Cowan explained that people who have migraines tend to have an overactive brain stem.
6. Changes Changes sensation to feel sensations such as tingling in hands or feet, or numbness in the arms, legs, or parts of your face, all related to the migraine. This condition usually lasts for a migraine attack occurs. Types of physical sensation is quite alarming and can increase anxiety and stress due to migraine.
7. Blurred vision blurred visual sensation or glare may occur in one stage of a migraine aura or migraine during pain itself. A small percentage of migraine sufferers experience aura symptoms such as blurred vision and other neurological changes, but not accompanied by headache. Changes in vision due to blood flow changes in your brain.
