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Autumn is a beautiful time of year. There’s relief from summer heat, glorious colorful landscapes as the leaves start to turn, and plenty of fun festivals and holidays to look forward to.
Yes, fall can be wonderful… unless you also suffer from migraines. In which case it can herald the start of your seasonal migraines and just the thought of it can be enough to cause trepidation.
Obesity is such a common condition in the modern world that we tend to take it for granted. Most of us are carrying a few pounds more than we ideally should, with some of us having rather more than a few.
Links between weight and migraine are nothing new, but until now no studies have specifically examined whether being overweight is a contributing factor in episodic migraine.
Women, and increasingly men too, use cosmetics and makeup on a daily basis. We grow up with them and rarely give a second thought to the number of products we rub into our skin. Many of today’s products for cleanliness and beauty are manufactured with a myriad of artificially created substances. Sometimes this is a good thing as they’re often cheaper than the natural alternatives, putting them into the reach of just about everyone’s budget.
Despite countless studies and years of meticulous research by leading experts around the world, migraine has so far defied conclusive explanation or understanding. It’s a common and widely suffered illness, affecting around one in seven people. Symptoms range from those that are relatively mild and which can be easily treated with the correct medication for the individual, to those that are totally debilitating, sometimes for days at a time.
Migraine affects all the members of a family, not just the person suffering the pain although they, of course, bear the brunt. Marriages are weakened if not lost, children can become resentful and confused (even believing they’re to blame for the illness), and friendships can crack under the disappointment of broken promises and missed social events.
Not all migraine sufferers find their headaches worsen during the summer months, but for many pain destroys their enjoyment of what should be an extended period of fun with family and friends.
Here are some tips for how to navigate the summer successfully, minimizing headache attacks while still enjoying plenty of fresh air and sunshine.
Recent studies indicate there might be some reason to believe there is a correlation between vitamin deficiency and migraine headaches. Taking into account many factors, including geographical location, lifestyle, and diet, if you are struggling to gain control over your migraine headache pattern it may be worth doing some investigation into your own personal, possible vitamin deficiencies.
If only migraine symptoms were limited to the pain of a bad headache!
Unfortunately, migraine is much more complicated than that with symptoms that extent far beyond mere pain. This is why people who don’t get migraine don’t understand.
Change of any kind is difficult for most of us, and that includes changes in diet. We all have favorites we eat that we know we shouldn’t, and the modern fast food diet of heavily processed convenient food does us no favors either.
In an ideal world, there would be no issue in disclosing a migraine condition to employers, but in the real world it’s often not as cut and dried as we’d like. Employers may or may not take a sympathetic stance, and the level of responsibility held by the migraine sufferer may impact how the employer reacts. They may feel that high-level employees with migraine may need too much time off and so won’t be able to properly carry out their duties.
