Migraine is a disease that affects approximately 12% of the population is nearly 7 million people. It especially affects women. It is characterized by recurrent attacks of severe headaches, the frequency and duration can vary from person to person.

Migraine

Migraine is caused by increased sensitivity of the nervous centers in the brain to precipitating factors such as psychological (stress, anxiety, etc..), Hormonal (menstruation, oral contraceptives), sensory (light, noise), food, climate, or environmental.

Are you a migraine?

  • Your headache is evolving crisis a few hours to 3 days. Between crises, you do not suffer from headaches.
  • You have submitted at least 5 attacks in your life.
  • Your headache has at least 2 of the following:
    * localized to one side of the head
    * pulsatile ( “this tape”),
    * increased effort (climbing stairs, running),
    * strong to very strong.
  • Your headache is accompanied by at least 1 of the following signs:
    * feeling sick or vomiting,
    * discomfort to light and noise.

If you answered:
* YES 4 questions: You are probably migraine
* YES to 3 of 4 questions: You are probably older migraine
* NOT at least 2 of 4 questions: You’re probably older not migraine.



Do I have a migraine or a headache?
Migraine is a headache especially well, which evolves by fits of several hours to several days. Three times more common in women than in men, the onset is happy in adolescence or adulthood. The pain, intense, usually predominates on one side of the head.
It is readily pulsating, giving the impression of a hammer on the head. Nausea or vomiting, and intolerance to noise and light are often present. These symptoms may require very difficult to stop all activity and bed rest and quiet in the dark.
In contrast, between crises, the migraine does not complain about anything. All these signs make it relatively easy to distinguish from many other migraine headaches. Thus, the headache called “tension” (which have nothing to do with blood pressure), which are headaches commonplace that everyone suffers occasionally, often sit on both sides of the head pain is less intense than that of migraine, it is continuous, not pulsatile.
Furthermore, a wide variety of diseases including infection (eg influenza), hypertension or local disease (eye, sinuses) may also be accompanied by headache, but it is not there migraine.

Some questions for you to facilitate the doctor’s diagnosis
Your headache they occur in episodes lasting from 4 to 72 hours between which you do not suffer?

Question 1 – During crisis, your headache:
Headquarters does only one side prevails or does one side?
Is it beating to the rhythm of court?
Is it severe enough to interfere with your daily activities?
Is it aggravated by physical effort?

Question 2 – While the crisis
Do you have nausea?
Are you vomiting?
Noise and light you are they painful?
You are probably migraine if you have answered yes at least twice to question 1 and at least once to question 2.

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