My Pain Clinic has been treating head ache migraines really effectively than your own personal doctors and their medications. Headache migraine is very common among all ages especially who takes much stress, fatigue and tension. However, very less doctors can differentiate between a simple headache and headache migraine. The usual headache is when there is contraction of the muscles that supports the head and neck region. However in comparison to this, the migraine, tends to rise ranging from moderate to very severe throbbing pain in the optic nerve, front region of head, and at the side of the head along with temples. This pain increases with time and can be unrelenting and continues to go on for days accompanying other symptoms commonly described as the ‘aura’.
Diagnosis of Headache Migraine
If a patient comes to us at My Pain Clinic, out dedicated doctors first start looking at the patient history of having Migraine as family roots of headache migraines running across the family. Our doctors specialized in neurology handle such cases and are trained enough to get to the root cause of the problem. The instigating factors vary from person to person. However, the throbbing pain is characteristically diagnosis which can also be related to Half Head Pain going in the eye and temples.
Our doctors are expert in diagnosing head migraines and even conducting series of different tests and physical examination if the condition of the patient gets more unusual, complex, and more severe.
- Blood tests are performed by the doctors in order to check the blood vessel problems, or presence of infection in the spinal cord or brain, or unnecessary toxin release in your system
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)I uses a powerful magnetic field as well as radio waves in order to produce comprehensive images of the brain and the surrounding blood vessels.
- MRI scans are helpful for the doctors for the diagnosis of bleeding in the brain, tumors, infections, strokes, and other brain and nervous system “neurological” conditions.
- Computerized tomography (CT) scan is an advanced form of full scanning which involves a series of X-rays in order to generate comprehensive cross-sectional images of the brain. The images captured are from all the possible angles of the brain knowing the functionality of the brain in detail. These classified images help he doctors in getting to the root cause of headache really fast and better than other reliable methods.
- Spinal tap “lumbar puncture” may also be recommended by our doctors at My Pain Clinic if there is suspicion about infections, bleeding in the brain or another primary condition.
Treatment of Headache Migraine
We at My Pain Clinic specialize in giving off complete and reliable treatments for headache migraines which can control the onset of migraine from getting severe and reduce the frequency of attacks over a period of time.
Lists of medications have been designed for treating headache migraines. Some of these drugs are often used for the treatment of other conditions in relieving and help preventing migraines. Medications for treating migraine are categorized under two divisions:
- Preventive medications: preventive medications encircle such types of drugs that can be and are taken on regular basis, even on daily basis, regardless the fact that there is migraine or not in order to reduce the severity or frequency of migraine attacks. These medications are important for migraine patients as when the migraine is left untreated and no medicine is taken, the severity of the pain is increased to such level that it can only be treated through pain killing injections and steroids. Preventive medication include:
- If you have a severe condition of migraine and you get a debilitating attack every week and it lasts for about 1 hours and you feel numbness, weakness and prolonged pain then you must focus on reducing the frequency and severity of the pain and start taking symptom relieving medicines that work over the period of 3 weeks to 3 months to cure and lessen the migraine attacks.
- You can also ask doctor for migraine preventing medicine when you are about to start the next menstruation cycle which is the time the stress level is really high in females body.
- Lack of sleep and insomnia also cause migraines and therefore should be cured by taking preventive medications.
- Pain-relieving medication can also be described as acute or abortive treatment when the migraine has already kicked in and the patient should be made at ease to get rid of his her pain. These medications are taken during the migraine attacks in order to lessen the pain and completely eliminate it to relive the patient. List of medicines are present to relieve migraine when the patient is suffering from unavoidable pain:
- Pain relievers such as ibuprofen or Aspirin are helpful in relieving mild migraine
- Acetaminophen and Tylenol are also good for relieving mild pains.
- However, these drugs when taken too frequently can result in ulcers, vomiting or gastroentitis and other abdominal disorders.
- Triptans are medications that are helpful in treating migraines which make the blood vessels constricted and block the residing pain pathways in the brain.