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Like adults, children also experience headaches due to stress and trauma. As a matter of fact, migraine headaches typically start during childhood or adolescence. Studies tell us that the frequency of headaches increases in children as they enter adolescence and go through the stresses of puberty. Kids who are suffering from migraine may show symptoms such as frequent nausea and vomiting. Sometimes, some children experience abdominal migraine (periodic vomiting with no headache). Research claims that, normally, these children will develop headaches as they grow older. There are several ways to treat migraines in children, however, take note that these neurological syndromes can be signs of depression, most especially if symptoms include mood swings or change in sleeping habits. That is why aside from the regular medication and treatment for migraines, parents should also consider counseling and therapy for their kids.

Classic migraine symptoms include visual irregularities where you can see lights blinking or lines zigzagging, hallucinations, sketchy vision, unable to read, a high instance of sensitivity to bright light, and temporary blind spots in visual sizes or shapes of an object.

Other symptoms include sensitivity to loud sounds or music, pricking sensation in hands, yawning, and an excess of hunger and thirst sensation.
Migraine sufferers usually experience numbness around the mouth, difficulty in uttering the right words and weakness on one side of your body.
The presence of these symptoms doesn’t mean that they will recur most of the time. But in any kind of headache, where the ability to see is affected,
it is a must that you seek medical help.

Migraines usually interferes with our performance of daily tasks although there are no serious side effects of migraine that can cause permanent health disability, true migraines are not the result of any serious medical maladies or brain tumors. However, if a migraine becomes rapid and occurs frequently and is accompanied with high temperature, you should see a doctor and have him run some neurological tests.

After taking Tramacet, i noticed that it wasn’t really helping me get rid of the pain totally. Not to mention the drowsiness, heavy sweating, and dry mouth. I was curious why I was experiencing such maladies so I turned to the ever reliable Google about it.

Upon careful reading, i found out that it contains two active ingredients: tramadol hydrochloride & paracetamol

In addition, Tramadol hydrochloride is an opioid, meaning it relieves pain and though it’s kinda similar to morphine, it’s not going to eradicate the pain but rather just tries to minimize it. I also think that this is so because Morphine is a controlled substance and has addictive properties, thus having an addictive ingredient wont pass through the FDA. Going back, Paracetamol is a non-opioid pain reliever and is often used to treat simple headaches or slight body pains or fever.

Now, my doctor didn’t warn me before hand that this medicine may cause drowsiness. However, as i was reading through its label, one side effect caught my interest. Headache. I find it ironic that the sickness that i have been treating has a medicine that has head ache as a possible side effect. I hope that won’t happen to me, otherwise i would go ballistic because of the pain in my head.

Headaches normally occur in both men and women. However, statistics data show that women experience migraine about 2-3 times more than men do. Out of the 20 million women in the US who struggle with headaches, 9 million women suffer from migraines. Women also claim to endure higher levels of pain, longer duration of headaches and even experience vomiting and nausea. Studies tend to explain this data by stating that migraines in women may be related to changes in ovarian hormones. For example, several women report that their headaches occur during their menstrual cycles and that the use of oral contraceptive pills and menopause are also responsible for the increase in the frequency and severity of migraine attacks. Thus, it is absolutely necessary for women to understand these changes in their bodies in order to determine effective ways of treating migraine.

It is either migraine, tension-type head-ache, sinus, cluster. Your headache seems to give you other symptoms you have.
So you think diagnosing yourself is easy?Think again. It can could be more complicated than you think.
You need to consider these factors

* 89% of the population think that sinus or allergy headaches are just normal when they are actually migraines
* Only a fraction of people with migraines have visible auras
* A “rebound” from pain medicines can be the cause of your daily headaches

An educational site sponsored by the Michigan Headache Treatment Network called Headache Central is a tool designed to help people classify their headaches. The program asks several queries about your headaches, choosing random questions to ask based on your previous answers.
When you have answered the questions, you’re given a webpage with your answers and a possible diagnosis summarized in a friendly format that can be printed and given to your doctor on your next visitation.

Headache Central however is not designed for you to diagnose yourself. It was designed to give your doctor with a more comprehensive view of what you’re going through. Going to your doctor’s clinic well-informed is helpful but you should be open to what they have to say as well.

My pals who are nursing migraines told me that there are similarities between a panic disorder and .
A panic disorder gives you some sort of fear for an actual panic attack and for weeks and months, anticipating it only heightens your anxiety as well as your stress levels to the point where you end up having a panic attack.
Migraines on the other hand add stress to my life in a way that contributes to the next migraine episode that will ultimately begin a cycle that is very hard to stop. There are periods where a migraine comes very frequently — every other day or twice a week — for a couple of months.

In early 2004, my pal went to the hospital to address his painkiller addiction (which was in part due to the migraines). The hospital was a “dual-diagnosis” facility which treated both his panic disorder and depression all the same time. He later found out that once he was able to manage those two things that has been bugging him, he was able to live a life which is migraine-free for the last four years. Based on what happened to my friend, i could deduce that there is some sort of connection between panic attacks and migraine.

Like many migraine sufferers, i follow scale of 1 to 10 to rate the intensity of my headaches, where 1 is tolerable, and 10 is the most painful event imaginable. Here are the categories:

Scale Description

1-2: I can still do my work and tasks and can still talk properly.

3-4: I cannot work properly and I tend to look for a quiet place to relax.

5-6: A very agonizing headache. Cannot concentrate. Cannot work even the simplest of tasks.
Physical activities like walking makes pain even more excruciating.

7-8: I lie face down in a quiet room. Turning to the other side makes me feel like my head is crushed.

9: I am crying very hard because of the pain.

10: Indescribable pain. Makes me catatonic but with a war going on inside my head.

Looking back, I thought these were mere sinus headaches because that’s what my mother told me but somehow I have a feeling .

The little aspirin tablet celebrates its 110th birthday this month. Though it’s been in the market for a very long time, aspirin is still first medicine people with Migraines use when we have episodes. Currently, researchers are still discovering more new things that aspirin can do. Hippocrates, probably the world’s first doctor discovered that certain elements from the willow tree could be used to relieve body aches and pains.
He even recommended to the pregnant women to chew the leaves and bark to ease the pain of giving birth.

Salicylates, compounds found inside the willow tree were used as arthritis medications in the late 1800’s, but was not so popular to to its side effect of irritating the stomach. However, Felix Hoffmann, a researcher at a then small German company named Bayer, came up with a compound that could treat aching muscles or aching heads without the stomach ache. This discovery led to the production of Bayer’s first major drug, which then evolved into a major corporation through their excellent marketing campaign and provided the German population and the world with pain relief without any side effects. Today, Americans ingest an estimated 80 billion tablets of aspirin every year for various sickness ranging from Migraines, headaches and recently, to minimize risk of heart disease.