Do you suffer from painful migraines? Would you like to do all you can to prevent them? Unless you are unusual and enjoy pain, the answer is probably yes. Preventing migraines involves several steps. The first step is to recognize what your risks and triggers are for your migraines.
The second step is to follow your treatment plan, which probably includes some preventative medications prescribed by your doctor. The third step is to avoid those things that trigger your migraines and the last step is to make any lifestyle changes that can help to reduce or avoid migraines from occurring.
Step One – Recognize Risks and Triggers
When you go for your initial appointment to be diagnosed, your doctor probably asked you to fill out a medical questionnaire. This questionnaire included personal and medical information about you and your family. There were most likely some specific questions about what things might trigger your migraines. Common triggers are certain foods and scents, irregular sleep and wake patterns and stress.
You can establish your list of triggers by keeping a journal in which you take notice of what you were doing prior to the start of migraines in order to establish a pattern. The pattern may reveal certain foods that are consumed consistently before the occurrence of migraines, or scents or a pattern of interrupted sleep. It may also reveal that you are under stress and what kind of stress. Avoiding your triggers once they are identified can help you to reduce or eliminate your migraines.
Other lifestyle changes you can make that may make a difference in how many or how often you get migraines is to start participating in regular exercise such as aerobic exercising to reduce tension. Your doctor can gear an exercise program to fit your health, likes and abilities. Other exercises that may be suggested are walking, swimming, cycling or dancing. Participating in exercises on a regular basis can help by improving your health and reducing your migraines.
Women should speak with their doctor about any hormone supplements they are taking such as estrogen to see if avoiding or reducing them can has had an impact on their migraines. Sometimes when estrogen is reduced this can make headaches worse. Estrogen medications include birth control pills, and hormone replacement therapy. There are always alternatives or replacement therapy that can be discussed.
Step Two – Follow your treatment plan
It may be obvious, but well worth pointing out. In order to prevent the pain of future migraines it is important to follow the treatment plan that you and your doctor has designed. This plan may include some preventative medications or lifestyle changes that may make a difference. Always keep an open line of communication between you and your doctor.
Step 3 – Probably the most difficult one to follow through with, is to avoid those things that trigger your migraines
Let us say that you discover by keeping a journal that every time you eat chocolate candy you get a migraine. It may very well be that chocolate is a food trigger from migraines for you. Over a two-week period avoid all chocolate and see if it makes a difference in the occurrence of migraines. An absence of migraines is a pretty good indication that you are on the right track. Some people can’t stand going to public events that are known to be noisy because noise tends to trigger a migraine attack. Everyone will have different triggers.
Step 4 – Make any lifestyle changes that can help to reduce or avoid migraines from occurring.
Lifestyle changes that may prove helpful in avoiding migraines are to keep to a regular sleep schedule, avoid noisy public events, and learn how to recognize and handle stress better and to exercise on a regular basis to promote relaxation and to relieve stress.
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