One Sided Migraine
What is common migraine (without aura)?
Nausea and vomiting may accompany one sided migraine. Also, the symptoms before, during or after the pain may differ. Patient may discover signs to signal the pain beforehand like fatigue, unease, diminishing or increased appetite, distress or anger. These usually come couple of hours before but in some cases, this may be long as a couple days.
Is the pain on one-side?
Yes. Moderate or severe, this throbbing pain is usually on the temples and on one side. Also, it diminishes at the beginning or ending periods of the attack. Although usually throbbing, this pain might as well be described as piercing, compressing, stabbing, etc. When it is throbbing, patients perceive it as pulse. In some migraine attacks, the pain may cover the whole head.
Is vomiting observed?
Nausea and vomiting share the second place among symptoms. Sometimes attacks might begin with nausea. During attack period patients lose their appetite. In fact, just with the thought or smell of the food, nausea may get severe. Loud noises, perfumes, food smells may start the attack or increase an existing one. Patients prefer impenetrably dark rooms.
Migraine Story
Before the treatment:
“I have headaches since high school. Every time I go hungry or I cannot sleep the headache comes. I work in a distressful job and when the headache begins, I just want to quit everything and lie down. This makes it easier to dull the pain. I take my migraine medicine and go to bed. I cannot stand any light nor noise and wake up freshened. If I have lots of meetings I take multiple drugs but nothing changes. Closer to the end of the day, nausea gets incredibly severe and I vomit. The following day, headache keeps staying. Also, I have headaches every time my period comes and these are the most severe ones. The pain is just on one side and although it changes from time to time, it is mostly on my right side. Also it affects my eye and causes it to throb like a pulse.
After the treatment:
Apparently the major cause for my pain was my teeth. My headaches during high school were resulting from my wisdom teeth. Then I had them pulled out but now, I was clenching my teeth without noticing. When the doctor told me this I denied it but then I realized that I really do it, even during the day. Two tooth decays are treated and I began using splint for the clenching. After neural therapy sessions my headaches were gone.
POSTA NEWSPAPER, APRIL 25, 2014