Foods: some of the more well-known offenders on the migraine food trigger list are: chocolate, nuts, cheese, cured meats, refined sugar, and sugar substitutes.
There are more - the migraine sufferers can keep a food diary of what they ate and drank prior to an attack, compare it to their migraine diary,...
Noise - from music to jackhammers - all sounds are a painful addition to the sufferer's pounding headache. Usually, a migraine sufferer needs a soundless room to begin to recover.
(Noise is sound that your body perceives as unpleasant, unhealthy.)
Stimulation of any kind of sound to the inflamed nerves in your skull...
Illegal drugs - it should surprise no one that a Quality Assurance Department is not a priority for an illegal drug manufacturer - who knows what is used to "cut" and "extend" the basic product?
So it's nearly impossible to determine, either the basic substance or beyond that, which part...
MOH - Medication-Overuse Headache - the very substance designed and prescribed to alleviate pain, if taken in a dose higher than what the manufacturer and the doctor recommended, acts as a migraine trigger!
There's migraines' aversion to extremes again. In this case, too much of a good thing is not...
I am risk-averse as much as possible. I also like to think that my lungs were designed to breathe in - ideally - a combination of oxygen and inert gases, some beneficial isotopes, and nothing else. Well, maybe a bit of perfume, a flower's aroma, some spices, fresh produce,...
Why is it easier for us to take better care of our car's needs than our own health? We devotedly regularly take our vehicle to a specialist (a garage mechanic) for maintenance, and, in the case of mechanical problems, we ask questions, cluck with concern over every detail of...
Red wine and beer are more of a trigger than white wine, and dry wine is less of a trigger than sweet.
I wasn't a big drinker to begin with, but so desperate to make every attempt to get rid of the migraines that I tried every strategy and recommendation I came across in my...
More commonly known by its abbreviation, MSG, this flavor enhancer is so potent it has been known to trigger a migraine-like attack in someone who was not a migraine sufferer!
MSG occurs naturally in our bodies (as do cannabinoids - but that's for another column!), but like every other extreme...
Wildly flashing bright lights. One flash of a strobe light can be enough to trigger an attack in some migraine sufferers.
While strong or intense light can be dealt with by a non-sufferer with just a single blink, you, the migraine sufferer, perceive such a stimulus as intense, a sharp stabbing...
Neck pain can be self-inflicted. If you spend a lot of time tensing up around an attack, neglecting to practice relaxation exercises in the neck and upper shoulder area will result in at least tension, if not outright pain.
When you bring your car to the garage because it's not...