Migraines are not a bad headache that people get somtimes in life, but in fact they are a disease that ultimately is not good for a persons life. This is a genetic disease that your parents pass onto you if they have the migraine disease. My mother has migraines all the time and so she has the disease, this ment that when I was born I had a 50% chance of getting that gene also. I was the unlucky one out of the children that has this gene and this is not a good gene to have. I actually just got better from having a migrane attack that only lasted about 6 hours this time. After i was sitting around trying not to do anything to set if off again, I thought to my self that i would learn more about this disease and so I found this site and decided to write about it on my blog.
"Migraine can induce a host of serious physical conditions: strokes, aneurysms, permanent visual loss, severe dental problems, coma and even death."
Apparently I have been given a gene that in the end could in fact cuase my early departure from this world. Just makes me happy to be here writing this paper and allowing you to know what a migraine really is.
"Migraine is disease, a headache is only a symptom. Migraine pain is caused by vasodilation in the cranial blood vessels (expansion of the blood vessels), while headache pain is caused by vasoconstriction (narrowing of the blood vessels). During a migraine, inflammation of the tissue surrounding the brain, i.e., neurogenic inflammation, exacerbates the pain. Therefore, medicine often prescribed to treat a headache, such as beta-blockers, dilate the blood vessels and therefore can make a Migraine worse.
Unlike a headache, the Migraine disease has many symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, auras (light spots), sensitivity to light and sound, numbness, difficulty in speech, and severe semihemispherical head pain. One Migraine attack alone can last for eight hours, several days, or even weeks."
Now that you know that this is more then just a bad headache, and what it does to somone then you should probably help somone out the next time they have a migraine. Not all of you probably get migraines but I am sure that you know people who get them, and so instead of telling them to calm down and take some advil or somthing. Turn down all sounds and lights and tell them to relax with their eyes closed and put a wet towel on their head that covers their temples also. This will be very helpful to that person and maybe they will recover faster then the regular duration times, which consist of atleast 8hours, to a few days, and even as long as a week.
http://www.migraines.org/myth/mythreal.htm
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I don't know people that have this disease, but if I hear or know someone that has a migrane, I will probably give them the benefit of the doubt. Good Article
Wow, I did not realize that migraines were that serious! I thought they were just normal headaches! I also did not realize that they were hereditary. I read that usually migraine incidence peaks in young adult hood. Also, critics question why aren't people who take hot baths or those who exercise more prone to migraine attacks? They suggest that migraines originate in the cortex of the brain, where certain pain sensors are stimulated. Recently, treatment with lidocaine has helped relieve migraines, and akso newer drugs such as Zomig, Amerge, and Maxalt are now available. These, unfortunately, are cleared from the body in a few hours, and the migraine sometimes returns.
Reference: Health The Basics by Rebecca J. Donatelle
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