What you do in the first few minutes of a migraine can very well determine how long it will last and how heavy it will be.
Anyone who has ever experienced a migraine headache knows how painful and tortuous can be life after the onset of a migraine. No one knows if a headache will start to turn into one of those migraine headaches that can leave someone incapacitated for several hours or days.
What makes decisions for people suffering from migraine headaches, especially difficult, is that migraines can be confused with other heads at an early stage. And people with migraine headaches are also prone to developing other common types of headaches, such as sinus and tension headaches, like everyone else.
For those experiencing these debilitating migraine headaches, decisions made in the first ten minutes are the most important.
When the first migraine headache occurs, two emotional reactions occur: the first: “Oh God, not another migraine!” And the second is the fear of anticipation of many hours of suffering, pain, lying in a dark room and forcing solitude from spouses, children, work and social activities.
To be active from the start, ask a series of questions to ask:
o Is it a sinus, tension or migraine headache?
o Is there an “aura” for those who usually experience one, which usually signals the decline of migraine headaches?
o Is this migraine strong enough to warrant action?
o Should I take any medicine (triptan) or not?
Answers to these questions will significantly determine the outcome of this migraine.
With traditional medication, popular migraine drugs today are called triptans. These triptan drugs have brand names such as Imitrex®, Amarge®, Maxalt®, Zomig®, Relpax®, Avert®, and Prova®.
Triptan drugs have the best opportunity to quickly stop migraine headaches if taken during the first 30 minutes, and especially during the first 10 minutes. The sooner they are taken, the better the result for alleviating a migraine headache.
Unfortunately, the decision to take these triptan medicines is not as easy as one would think:
o Triptan preparations have very significant and uncomfortable side effects.
o They are extremely expensive - one tablet of triptan can cost up to $ 70 or more.
o If taken too often, they lose their effectiveness.
The inability to take the medicine triptan (which still works) in the critical first few minutes in what turns out to be a migraine headache, ideally guarantees a significant, severe and prolonged headache.
In the courageous efforts to achieve relief from migraine pain, people end up taking their triptan medication a few hours after it began. They basically end up side effects of medications and have very little effect. However, most will try to take medicine, even if it is already too late.
There is another option - the treatment of migraine. Cure a migraine and don't worry about the critical ten minutes again.
Recent reports indicate that there is indeed a cure for migraine headaches. This was reported by many elite medical clinics that serve women. According to their treatment protocols, migraines disappear completely in 80% of these women.
Successes are limited to women. The treatment of female hormones is the mainstay of migraine treatment. Some clinicians have published their treatment protocols and even made them available to the public.
The Women's Health Institute in Texas believes that migraine treatment certainly eliminates the critical ten minutes in general, and triptans may no longer be needed - at least in women.
