There are hundreds of types of headaches, which constitute the most frequently expressed complaint in medical applications all over the world, and the cause of most of them is still unknown.
According to international criteria, headaches are initially primary (primary - cause unknown)
It is divided into 2 subgroups as strong> and secondary (secondary - due to a cause).
- Primary headaches: If there is no underlying disorder. Migraine, tension type, and cluster headaches are the most common among these.
- Secondary headaches: There is another underlying pathology in the brain or systemically. These conditions may require emergency treatment. For this reason, headache should not be ignored, it may be a symptom of an important and urgent situation.
MIGRINE HEADACHE
The most common primary headache, which is a chronic disease with acute attacks. Migraine, which is a cause of pain, occurs in 25% of our society and is 3 times more common in women than men. Migraine is a disease of the middle and young age groups and can be seen in all age groups.
- Symptoms:
It is examined in four parts.
1. Prodrome Period: These are symptoms that cannot be fully defined by the patients and appear in mood or behavior hours or days before the headache. The most common symptoms are feeling of tiredness, difficulty in concentration, stiffness in the back of the head, cramps, inability to collect thoughts, and increased desire for certain foods (such as increased desire for chocolate or sweet foods).
2. Aura Period: Migraine aura precedes the headache, is usually neurological symptoms that lasts less than 60 minutes, and is often visual. There may be simple light flashes, broken-dashed light lines, zig-zags, thread-like, star-like lights, mixed light and black dots, and black blind spots in the visual field. After visual findings, numbness is the most common symptom in patients. Numbness that starts in the hand and spreads to the arm and half of the face is rarely accompanied by leg numbness. There may be difficulty in speaking, such as not being able to find words, or a lisp. Very rarely, temporary paralysis may occur, manifesting itself as weakness in one-sided arms and legs. migraine with aura It constitutes 10-20% of all migraines.
3. Migraine Pain Period: Typical headache in migraine is one-sided, throbbing, moderate-severe. It usually gets worse with activity, so the patient does not want to walk, go up and down stairs, or even stand up and talk. One of the most important factors that will distinguish migraine from other headaches is that the pain is one-sided and gradually gets worse.
4. Recovery Period:The patient may feel tired, restless, and unable to think about anything. The need for sleep is evident. While nausea and vomiting are more prominent in migraine in childhood, it may decrease and disappear in older ages. Aura symptoms may occur.
- What are the causes?
Migraine attacks occur during the menstrual period, ovulation period, use of birth control pills, hormones. Conditions that alter hormone balance such as replacement therapies, alcohol, fermented beverages (such as beer and wine), canned foods, substances such as aspartame (found in sweeteners), fermented foods, chocolate, old cheese, nutrition-related conditions such as missing meals (hunger), stress, sadness, depression, excessive physical activity and fatigue, places with excessive and bright light, fluorescent lighting, insomnia, excessive sleep, blood vessels in the veins. These are some drugs that cause enlargement.
- How is the diagnosis made?
There is no diagnostic test for migraine, but with the ID Migraine Test, patients can determine whether their pain is migraine or not. They can have an opinion on whether it is or not. If you answer yes to two or three of the questions in this test, your probability of having a migraine is 93.3%.
1.Have you ever felt nausea or discomfort in your stomach during your headache?
2 .Did the light bother you during the headache?
3.Have you ever been unable to continue your daily life due to headache in the last 3 months? (not being able to go to work, not being able to attend lectures, etc.)
- How is it treated?
1. Attack treatment is used only during an attack. Simple painkillers or special migraine medications are used. Severe nausea-vomiting and attacks Patients with excessive restlessness during intercourse may require treatments for these complaints.
2. Epilepsy (epilepsy) drugs, depression drugs, hypertension drugs, and some magnesium-containing drugs are used in prevention treatment.
3. Botulinum toxin, herbal products, acupuncture, neuraltherapy, etc. are other treatment modalities.
- Botulinum toxin applications provide temporary improvement in patients. It cannot be applied to every migraine patient.
- While herbal products may reduce the pain of patients, just because they are herbal does not mean that these products will not be harmful.
- Acupuncture is 50% effective in migraine.
- Neural therapy, on the other hand, is a treatment method based on a holistic approach to the organism and works by correcting the disorders in the perfect functioning of the body (providing healing by having a regulatory and stimulating effect on the autonomic nervous system). Among migraine treatment options, effective, cause-specific, long-term and side-effectless treatment can be done using neural therapy, and with this treatment method, a definitive solution can even be obtained for migraine patients.
Migraine is essentially a disruption of the functioning of the autonomic nervous system. . Neurological findings and gastrointestinal system symptoms that occur in addition to the headache during a migraine attack are caused by temporary disruptions in the autonomic nervous system. The two basic functions of the autonomic nervous system, vascular control and control of bowel movements, are temporarily disrupted during the attack. The slowdown in the intestines causes nausea and vomiting. Most importantly, vasoconstriction in the vessels as a result of impaired vascular control causes initial mild pain and neurological aura symptoms. Vasodilation in the vessels causes throbbing pain and edema. At the end of the attack, the system recovers and the patient returns to his normal life. Neural therapy works by correcting the disorder in the autonomic nervous system. The chemical effects of drugs cannot correct the bioelectrical disorder in the nervous system. Natural procaine and lidocaine are used in neural therapy. It can be easily performed on patients of all age groups with superficial (subcutaneous) and deep injections. In this sense, Neural Therapy affects the autonomic nervous system, that is, It can affect the body communication network. Accumulated damage to the autonomic nervous system forms the basis of diseases. This situation is caused by microbial diseases, surgeries, accidents, physical and psychological traumas that we experience throughout our lives. These foci, called interference fields, can be seen on the body as vaccine scars, surgery scars, stitches, incision scars, trauma scars, dental treatments (canal treatment, missing teeth, some fillings, etc.). /strong> or any disease in internal organs. These disruptive fields sometimes cause disruption of the system with the facilitating effect of triggering factors. In neural therapy, procaine and lidocaine silence the disruptive focus with their hyperpolarizing (bioelectrical regulator) effect. No stimulation that could upset the system occurs again from the bioelectrically stabilized focus.
Migraine can be treated by completely eliminating the interfering fields with neural therapy.
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