Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Migraine
very sadly I am a patient of migraine. migraine is actually a type of headache .....typical migraine headache is unilateral pain (affecting one half of the head) and pulsating in nature, lasting from 4 to 72 hours....i have a timing of 12 hours.
i become sensitive to light,sensitive to sounds....i really do not want to talk at the time of migraine.i hate everything which is around me. usually women have this problem more then men do.
cause of the migraine is unknown....in medical terms''disorder of serological control system''is known as migraine.it have particular days or time periods in which it occurs.....i get migraine attack on Tuesdays and Thursdays,from 3'o clock to 12'o clock.
Migraines were once thought to be initiated exclusively by problems with blood vessels, but the vascular changes of migraines are now considered by some to be secondary to brain dysfunction,although this concept has not been supported by the evidence. This was eloquently summed up by Dodick who wrote ‘There is no disputing the role of the central nervous system in the susceptibility, modulation and expression of migraine headache and the associated affective, cognitive, sensory, and neurological symptoms and signs. However to presume that migraine is always generated from within the central nervous system, based on the available evidence, is naïve at best and unscientific at worst.The emerging evidence would suggest that just as alterations in neuronal activity can lead to downstream effects on the cerebral blood vessel, so too can changes within endothelial cells or vascular smooth muscle lead to downstream alterations in neuronal activity. Therefore, there are likely patients, and/or at least attacks in certain patients, where primarily vascular mechanisms predominate.Some have even attempted to show that vascular changes are of no importance in migraine but this claim is unsubstantiated and has not been supported by scientific evidence.If we swing between vascular and neurogenic views of migraine, it is probably because both vascular and neurogenic mechanisms for migraine exist and are important'- J Edmeads
There is no permanent treatment for this.......migraines time period shorts by the increase of age....