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Not many people relish the thought of having surgery. As a migraine sufferer, you’ve probably heard about supraorbital nerve decompression and wondered what’s it all about – how big an operation is it, and what are the side effects and the success rate?
Many migraine sufferers find that their headaches are often associated with feelings of anxiety or depression, and wonder if the two conditions are related. Plenty of research has been done to investigate the likelihood of either anxiety or depression leading to migraine, with results indicating that there is actually a connection.
Migraine pain is bad enough, but the symptoms that often go along with the head pain can add to the distress. Many migraine sufferers experience a range of other symptoms, which often show themselves in the skin itself, the eyes, how the face looks, or a heightened sensitivity from normal stimulus that shouldn’t cause discomfort.
Migraines are very personal. They vary from person to person in severity and cause, and as such, no one treatment will work for everyone. What soothes a migraine for one person, could trigger one in another. Some have been successful with home remedies, using common household items found their pantries and medicine cabinets to find relief.
You’re not hobbling around on crutches and you don’t wear a cast or have surgery wounds you can show off. There’s no blood, no stitches, no bruising. In fact, to all the world you look perfectly fine.
Migraine pain doesn’t show up on the outside, so it’s often hard to get people to believe just how bad the pain is. Many people get headaches, and to most it’s little more than an inconvenience. Headaches are swiftly dealt with by over the counter medication and within half an hour or so the...
Carpal tunnel syndrome and migraines are both serious, debilitating conditions that cause pain and distress in sufferers. Both are also recurring, and require treatment throughout the patient’s life. Until now, however, a direct link between the two has never been established.
A recent study now indicates there may actually be significant correlation, and that if you suffer from one you’re more likely than other people to develop the second at some point in your life.
Cluster headaches are one of the most debilitating conditions you can experience, particularly if you get them often. They’re also one of the most frustrating to identify and diagnose, and medical science is unclear as to the real cause. It’s believed that overstimulation of the hypothalamus is the primary cause, however. This is the section of the brain that regulates our sleep patterns, and its disturbance results in the development of headaches.
It’s almost summer, and while the hazy, lazy, sunny days bring a sense of well-being and enjoyment to so many people, for migraine sufferers it can be quite the opposite. If you’re one of the 14 million Americans who regularly contend with chronic headaches, you might be a little less happy about the arrival of the heat.
The allergy season is in full swing, and your daily sinus headache is ruining your spring. Is it really a sinus headache, however, or could you possibly be suffering from a migraine headache instead? It’s not unusual to confuse the two, according to Mark A. Zacharek, MD, residency program director for the department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Here’s how to tell the difference between a migraine and a sinus headache:
Spring is allergy season, and it’s here! While the new season brings warmer weather, spring rains and the peeking out of fresh flowers, it also affects our bodies in a number of different ways. If you experience seasonal allergies such as rhinitis as well as migraines, you could find the beauty of spring marred by an increase in headaches. Although the International Headache Society doesn’t officially recognize the term “seasonal migraine,” many sufferers use this to describe migraines that...
