Migraine headache has the specific changes within the brain. It causes severe head pain that is often accompanied by sensitivity to light, sound, or smells.
Migraine headaches usually are associated with sensitivity to sound, light, and smells. Some people have symptoms of nausea or vomiting. Migrane headache involves only one side of the head, but in some cases, patients may experience pain bilaterally or on both sides. The pain of a migraine is often described as throbbing or pounding and it may be made worse with physical exertion.
What is migraine with aura?
In some of the cases, patients with migraines can experience specific warning symptoms or an aura, prior to the onset of their headache. These warning symptoms can range from flashing lights or a blind spot in one eye to numbness or weakness involving one side of the body. It may last for several minutes, and then it resolves as the head pain begins or it may last until the headache resolves. For patients who have never experienced an aura, the symptoms can be frightening and can mimic the symptoms of a stroke.
Signs and Symptoms Of Migraine headaches:
The most common symptoms of migraine are:
- Severely it often pounding, pain, usually on one side of the head
- Nausea and or vomiting
- Sensitivity to light
- Sensitivity to sound
- Eye pain
The specific cause of migraines is not known, but there may be fluctuations in certain neurotransmitters, chemicals that send messages between brain cells. These are the changes it may predispose for some of the people to develop migraine headaches.
Risk factors :
Almost 25% of the people get experiences a migraine headache at some point in their life. Most migraine sufferers are female. It is estimated after the adolescence, the ratio of female to male patients who experience the migraines is about 3:1. It seems that it to be a genetic predisposition to the migraine, as there is often has a strong family history of migraine in the patients with this disorder.
Treatments for migraine headaches:
Treatment for the migraine headaches will depends upon how frequently the headaches may occur and how long the headaches can last.
Prognosis for a person with migraines:
Most of the people who have this migraine headache can find that the headaches may be controlled with the preventive medications and lifestyle changes. Diagnosis of migraine will need to be aware of how their lifestyle may directly impact the frequency and severity of their headache. Controlling migraine triggers may provide substantial benefit. It can be identified as that the patients get older, and aslo there may be a decrease in the frequency of this type of headache and they may disappear after a number of years.