Chronic migraine Causes

On April 29, 2010, in Migraine causes, by Admin
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It is normal to have migraine headaches from time to time. But some people have a migraine headache more days than other, that is the chronic migraine.
chronic migraine must occur 15 days per month, for three months and more. And chronic migraine headaches must not be a result of another condition.
Chronic migraine are classified by how long they last, some lasts more than five hours or less than five hours, the longer lasting migraine are more common and divided into four types Chronic migraine, Chronic tension migraine, new daily persistent migraine and hemicrania continua.

Chronic migraine
These chronic migraines comes without aura. To be sure you have chronic migraine, you must have migraine headaches, chronic tension type or both, and it have to last 15 days or more a month, for three months, and your migraine headaches have two of the following characteristics:

  • Migraine Cause a pulsating pain
  • Migraine Cause moderate to severe pain
  • Migraine that Are aggravated by routine physical activity
  • Migraine that Affect only one side of your head

And they cause one of the following:

  • Sensitivity to sound and light
  • Vomiting, nausea or both

Chronic tension type headache
These headaches evolve from episodic tension-type headaches. They may last hours or be constant.

Chronic tension-type migraine have two of the following characteristics:

  • Migraine Cause mild to moderate pain
  • Migraine Cause pain that feels pressing or tightening, but not pulsating
  • Migraine that Hurt on both sides of your head
  • Migraine that Aren’t aggravated by routine physical activity

And they cause one of the following:

  • Nausea
  • Sensitivity to sound or light

New daily persistent migraine
These migraine headache become constant in a few days of the moment after you have your first headache

New daily persistent migraine have two of the following characteristics:

  • Migraine Cause mild to moderate pain
  • Migraine that Hurt on both sides of your head
  • Migraine Cause pain that feels like pressing or tightening, but not pulsating
  • Migraine that aren’t aggravated by routine physical activity

And they cause one of the following:

  • Mild Nausea
  • Sensitivity to sound or light

Hemicrania continua migraine
These migraine headaches cause pain on one side of your head. They also:

  • Respond to the prescription pain reliever indomethacin
  • Cause moderate pain but with spikes of severe pain
  • May sometimes become severe with development of migraine- like symptoms
  • Are daily and continuous with no pain-free periods

hemicrania continua migraine headaches cause one of the following:

  • runny nose or Nasal congestion.
  • redness or tearing of the eye on the side which has migraine

Chronic migraine Causes:
The causes of chronic migraine aren’t well understood. They may happen if:
The part of your brain that suppresses pain signals isn’t working.
You develop a heightened response to pain signals.

Other frequent migraines may be caused by various underlying conditions, including:

  • Broblems with the blood vessels around the brain.
  • Infections
  • Intracellular pressure that’s either too low or too high
  • Brain injury
  • Brain tumor
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Acephalgic or Silent Migraine causes

On April 27, 2010, in Migraine causes, by Admin
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Acephalgic or Silent Migraine
silent Migraine and acephalgic Migraine, the two mean a Migraine attack but this migraine come without headache. we can say that Any type of Migraine is acephalgic.
the phases of a Migraine attack are Prodrome, Aura, Headache and Postdrome.
Not all Migrain sufferer have all this phases, and Migraine attack can be different from the next migraine attack.
an acephalgic Migraine don’t include the headache phase. so Any type of Migraine can be acephalgic.

The other names for silent migraine:

  • migraine aura without headache
  • acephalgic migraine
  • migraine equivalent
  • sans-migraine
  • eye migraine
  • painless migraine
  • ocular migraine
  • visual migraine

It is very hard to suspect the Acephalgic migraine because it comes without a headache. Some studies found that 25% of migraineurs have had a silent migraine from time to time, but as you see this migraine come without headache, so it can be misdiagnosis, if you get a headache, it is easy to be suspect the migraine, but without the headache phase, it is hard to suspect the silent migraine.

Treatment of Acephalgic migraine:
Acephalgic migraine is still basically migraine. There are many types of treatment that work for migraine, silent migraine included, but Acephalgic migraine may not require treatment at all.
To get a better understanding of silent migraine, we will look at migraine pain and aura as two distinct mechanisms.
In the past, it was thought that the migraine cause was blood flow in the brain. they thought That there is a relation between the nerve cell activity and the brain’s blood flow.
they thought that Migraine pain to be caused by blood in the brain.
Acephalgic, silent migraine causes:

  • loud noise
  • alcohol is an important migraine cause
  • bright lights
  • lack of sleep
  • caffeine
  • skipped meals
  • physical or emotional stress
  • weather and extreme cold or heat
  • hormone changes in women
  • foods which contain amino acid as aged cheese and red wine
  • nuts and chocolate

WiFi, mobile phone, and Bluetooth are very important devices in our daily life, but Some people cannot even be in the same room with this devices.so it is important to ask if there is a relation between mobile phone, Bluetooth and WiFi and migraine and to know if it is migraine causes?!
sure this devices have a side effect on us, not because of the device itself but because of what the mobile phones, WiFi and Bluetooth generate from electro magnetic frequencies, this is very harmful and it is the migraine cause. there are some devices which work against this electro magnetic frequencies, this devices organize the energy generated by mobile phones, WiFi and Bluetooth.
Some studies found that after using mobile phones for hours per day may be a migraine cause, so we will find the people who use mobile phones for long conversations getting migraines.
How to protect yourself from migraine caused by mobile phones, WiFi and Bluetooth.
1. It isn’t recommended to use the mobile phone near your head and to use the speaker while talking that will reduce the migraine.
2. You can use a device that block the harmful RT signals which cause migraine.
3. If you are a migraine sufferer,Try to avoid using your mobile phone for long conversations.
4. Support the companies that produce mobile phones which reduce the harmful signals.

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Can dairy products and cow’s milk cause Migraines?
If you one who suffer from migraine then there should be a certain activities or foods that can cause a migraine.
dairy products is one of the migraine causes for some people, so the answer for this question is Yes Milk is one of the migraine causes. but for some people. it depend on the person.
There are some studies found for people having migraines, it ended when they cut the milk from the diet. the hormones used in organic products and dairy products may cause migraine.
The types of milk and dairy products that are migraine causes:
– Milk powder or powdered milk, produced by removing the water from milk can cause migraine like
* Ice Cream
* Whey products
* Buttermilk products
* Skim milk
* Whole milk products
Evaporated milk, Baked milk, Condensed milk, Butter, Cheese, Cream cheese, Ice milk and Cultured buttermilk
all the above dairy products can be a migraine causes.

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Migraine is a Frequent headache that occurs on the head. its pain may be sever or moderate, when the migraine attack happen the sufferer might get sensitivity to sound and light. the migraine pain stay for 5 to 70 hours.
No one know specific reason for migraine, it some migraine causes are Found to be the main migraine causes. for example, there are some foods is to be a migraine causes for some migraine sufferer and don’t cause migraine for the others.
- foods that are commonly known like chocolate, bananas, citrus fruits, broad beans, aged cheese, alcohol, beer, red wine, dried fish.
- weather also play a great role in migraine as changes in temperature, – air pressure may be a migraine cause.
- Bright sounds and noises can also be a migraine causes
- Dieting and changing the eating habit is a migraine cause, specially the dieting which skip some meals.
- Sleeping and getting some rest help in curing the migraine.

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Migraine headaches may cause to lose enjoyment of the life. Curing and preventing migraine headaches, can be done by curing the migraine cause. The medical community don’t know the exact causes of migraine headaches, but they know that serotonin plays a big role in migraine control. the relation between serotonin and migraine headache is the Low serotonin levels are accompanied by a migraine headache.
An aura may be a result for migraine headache. An aura happens when a migraine headache begins. In a migraine attack, the patient may notice some changes in his mood and his vision.
Stress is believed to be one of the top causes of migraine headaches, and should therefore be avoided as much as possible, the best and effective solution to get rid of migraine is to cure the migraine cause itself, so if you have a migraine because of stress, it is better to get rid of the stress which is the migraine cause, that will help in reducing your migraine.
some studies found that there is a relation between some foods which play a great role in curing migraine.
Some foods which cause migraine
- the red wine is very important migraine cause and it is recommended to be avoided by migraine suffers.
- processed and canned meat is also a migraine cause.
- Getting amounts of caffeine more than the standard level may be a migraine cause.
If you get migraine headaches it is recommended to avoid the causes of the migraine, we will post a list of the migraine causes.

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We showed you in the last articles some migraine causes, however one of the very important migraine cause is mobile phone, years later a lot of studies were made to prove if the mobile phones are a migraine cause.
Some of those who use mobile phones suffer from nausea, vomiting and migraine headaches while using their mobile phone. However, whether these effects can result from the RF levels associated with mobile phones has not been verified by scientific studies. Some studies has found that RF radiation levels below the standard limits can cause migraine but has not proved that these migraine and biological effects can affect health. i will show you the difference between biological and health effects which may cause migraine
EX. moving from somewhere in the mountains near sea level causes more blood cells to be made – that is a biological effect.
But sometimes when using your mobile phone, you get migraine so this video will show you the relation between using mobile phone and migraine, and will tell you if the mobile phones are a migraine cause or not!

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