FACTORS BRINGING ON A MIGRAINE ATTACK: ‘THE PILL’

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:27:53 +0000

Progesterone, given in the first half of the cycle, prevents ovulation and is the basis for oral contraceptives.

Headaches often come on soon after starting the first course of the contraceptive pill. Rarely they can be very severe and accompanied by signs of malfunction of the nervous system such as the temporary loss of use of a limb or transient blindness, presumably due to a drop in blood flow to the appropriate part of the brain. These symptoms must always be taken seriously.

Some women taking the pill become severely depressed; this is of interest in the light of the relationship of migraine and depression.

Analysis of sufferers attending Migraine Clinics suggest that taking oral contraceptives is a major factor among those who come during an acute attack of migraine; this finding supports the hypothesis that oral contraceptives alter the threshold to migraine making people taking them more susceptible to attacks. On the other hand in some women, migraine attacks cease soon after they start to take the pill.

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STRESS AND BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:09:45 +0000

There are essentially two main ways of reducing stress:

To identify the sources of your stress and where possible seek either to reduce or eliminate these; and/or

To find ways to enable you to cope better with those sources of stress you can neither reduce nor avoid.

The most effective way to get your stress level down is usually by working towards both of these aims simultaneously. These tips from the experts will help you do just that:

Much stress is linked to always being in a rush, to constantly fighting the clock to get everything you need to do completed in time. Plan your day more carefully, allow yourself enough time for what you must do and so meet deadlines more gracefully, and you’ll find this cuts out a great deal of stress.

Directly linked to the above is the recommendation that you should be careful not to set yourself unrealistic targets, especially those that you know beforehand you will probably be incapable of meeting or where you will only manage to do so by rushing like mad or cutting corners, this being a sure-fire recipe to push up your stress level.

Always think things through carefully before you act or commit yourself to a course of action. Impulsive and less than well-thought-out actions are frequently the source of subsequent regrets, and the latter can be extremely stressful.

Set aside time to relax both physically and mentally for at least a part of every day, no matter how busy your schedule may be.

Retain control of your own life by learning to say ‘no’ if saying ‘yes’ would commit you to what is likely to become a stressful situation.

Whenever possible, take a break now and then, as a change of routine can recharge your mental and emotional batteries and improve your resistance to stress, thereby effectively reducing your level of it.

Learn to accept sensible limitations. If something is beyond your control, accept it as gracefully as possible until the time comes when you can do something to change it for the better. Agonising and worrying about things that can’t be helped is a major cause of stress and can also be a precursor to chronic anxiety.

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FACTORS BRINGING ON A MIGRAINE ATTACK: ‘THE PILL’

STRESS AND BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS