From the Left!
I cannot drink red wine. I should not be sleeping little but cannot sleep too much neither. Just do not make me upset and do not stress me. I have migraine. I watched the forecast and it said that southwester is coming. God, I’ll get a migraine again. My period is coming. I wish that I could be just moody, angry and resentful instead of having headaches… But I feel that it comes from the left again and again!
Hayykitap published a new book called “Migraine Solutions!” Neurologist Dr. Emel Gokmen tells the real and scientific treatment of headaches with a new method. Gokmen has developed a brand new approach, as a result of her studies on figuring out the reason of the pain. And she calls this method of curing pain by detecting its “real” reasons “Gokmen Approach on the Treatment of Migraine and Headaches.”
Ms. Gokmen, can you explain the reasons of migraine for dummies?
They say that the reasons of migraine are unknown and you have to learn to live with it but I will tell you something else. Migraine is the result of a damage on the nervous system. Throat infections, tooth decays, operations and traumas leave damages on the autonomic nervous system. You can think of them as electrical leakages. If the person also has a fragile nervous system, these leakages can turn the whole electrical system upside down and cause it o malfunction. When this system fails, veins get out of control and expand, and this is what makes our head throb. When bowel movements slow down, we feel nausea. Although our head hurts like it is about to explode between attacks, the reason of migraine is the body.
As a migraineur, I myself have headaches whenever my period comes, I get upset or angry, I drink wine and I am sleep deprived. Do these things trigger migraine? And what are other triggers?
Your list covers some of the main triggers and you can add southwester to that as well. Also, you can feel your head aching when you are happy, or overslept or just having a rest during the weekend. Although people tend to see those as the reasons of migraine, they are wrong. These things are just the triggers and you cannot treat migraine just by avoiding these triggers.
Migraine attacks causes dysfunction in bowel control. Slowing bowel movements cause acid and bile to accumulate and cause nausea. Patients might take drugs for this of course but the best solution is to prevent migraine attacks.
Can you summarize your suggestions in 5?
- Try to detect your triggers and avoid them.
- Try discovering the signals and take your medicine as soon as possible when the attack begins and try to stay in a quiet, peaceful place.
- If you do not have attacks that often, you can use migraine drugs and some pain killers to find peace. But if you are having many attacks, you should be treated definitely.
- Create alternatives for treatment within the bounds of possibility. If you can, then I recommend Gokmen Approach. If not, try to find physicians who apply neural therapy or acupuncture. If you cannot do none of those, then stick to the medicine.
- Finally, forget the sayings about you have to live with migraine. “Migraine is curable. You should just find the right physician.”
www.dipnot.tv JUNE 10, 2014