Migraine Headaches Support Group
Migraine is a neurological disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head and are often accompanied by photophobia (hypersensitivity to light), phonophobia (hypersensitivity to sound) and nausea.
(I see a chiropractor twice a week for migraines. I started to realize that while I was driving I was tense, sending my neck into such tenseness, I would get a migraine.
In the last month, I realized that I can't relax. Yesterday I was using the computer and I was holding the mouse like someone might take it from me (really tight).
I have some urological things going on that look like a bladder infection but upon doing a urine culture, there is never an infection. My urologist is baffled. I am beginning to think it is because my body is so tense. He finally told me to go to a health food store and get on probiotics. I also use Cranberry tablets which helps as well.
The person at the health food store gave me probiotics to take as well as Kefir (a iiquid probiotic) and changed my cranberry pill to a combination pill of Vitimin C (stress, cold and skin) dandelion (stress reliever, mild laxitive) B6 (diurectic, skin, yeast infection) and cranberry (for kidney stone prevention and urinary tract infection).
I have noticed a significant difference in how I feel. I sleep better because I am more relaxed and this morning I noticed I wasn't holding onto the mouse so tight. My migraines have been mini-migraines so far and I have controlled them with heat and ice (although I have about 40 migraine pills to use if I need to.
I have a lot of energy in the morning. (I take this at night but drink the Kefir during the day (twice about 3-4 oz.) As I am drinking the Kefir I can feel myself relax.
All of this to say - perhaps some Dandelion and Vit C as well as a Probiotic (I recommend this liquid Kefir plus another capsule) would relax every one more and help with the migraines rather than using Valium or Xanax or some other type of prescription as an overall preventive of the migraines.
I am just concentrating on relaxing all day long. I also use my water fountain too so I can feel more relaxed.
In the last month, I realized that I can't relax. Yesterday I was using the computer and I was holding the mouse like someone might take it from me (really tight).
I have some urological things going on that look like a bladder infection but upon doing a urine culture, there is never an infection. My urologist is baffled. I am beginning to think it is because my body is so tense. He finally told me to go to a health food store and get on probiotics. I also use Cranberry tablets which helps as well.
The person at the health food store gave me probiotics to take as well as Kefir (a iiquid probiotic) and changed my cranberry pill to a combination pill of Vitimin C (stress, cold and skin) dandelion (stress reliever, mild laxitive) B6 (diurectic, skin, yeast infection) and cranberry (for kidney stone prevention and urinary tract infection).
I have noticed a significant difference in how I feel. I sleep better because I am more relaxed and this morning I noticed I wasn't holding onto the mouse so tight. My migraines have been mini-migraines so far and I have controlled them with heat and ice (although I have about 40 migraine pills to use if I need to.
I have a lot of energy in the morning. (I take this at night but drink the Kefir during the day (twice about 3-4 oz.) As I am drinking the Kefir I can feel myself relax.
All of this to say - perhaps some Dandelion and Vit C as well as a Probiotic (I recommend this liquid Kefir plus another capsule) would relax every one more and help with the migraines rather than using Valium or Xanax or some other type of prescription as an overall preventive of the migraines.
I am just concentrating on relaxing all day long. I also use my water fountain too so I can feel more relaxed.
I took pure cranberry for months but never noticed a difference. I take vitamin C, and I take probiotics as well. I probably will forever because they help me so much (in other ways than the kidneys). I used to take a b-complex, but have never tried dandelion. I am taking so many supplements that I don't want to take many more, but I would if I saw good reason to.
And yes, many of us have migraines that are very related to stress. I pretty much got rid of my chronic migraines with psychotherapy. I used to have them at least once per week, and sometimes up to 5 times per week, but now I rarely get them. For me it seems they are triggered when I had way too much on my plate, like when I increased my hours at work (and I knew it was more than I could handle), or when I was packing for days for our move, despite feeling very sick already.