Symptoms and treatment of migraine with effective pills

1 Clinical picture of the disease

Migraine is a neurological disease that characterizes a pulsating paroxysmal headache, localized primarily on one side and giving off to the eye. It is a fairly common problem. More than ten percent of people suffer from this disease. Attacks occur usually at least once a week.

The causes of migraine may be several:

• Poor blood supply to the brain.
• Brain vessels are dilated unevenly.
• Nervous system disorder.
• Serotonin exchange is disrupted.
• Heredity.
• Blood pressure jumps.

Migraine attacks occur in most cases after heavy physical or mental stress, staying in a place of large crowds, drinking carbonated alcoholic beverages or red wine. Also, when weather changes, the use of certain products such as chocolate, sleep disorders. In women, migraine can be associated with taking hormonal contraceptives or PMS.

Migraine attacks can last from half an hour to several days, indicating a migraine status.

Migraine, symptoms:

• is a severe headache that usually covers one side of the head, in some cases giving off to the eye and jaw;
• pain is usually throbbing, and can intensify when a person hears a strong sound or sees a bright light;
• the body reacts to sharp smells with increased pain;
• nausea and vomiting;
• irritability, bad mood, depression, tearfulness;
• mood swings;

2 Types of pathology

• Classical form. Usually begins with harbingers, one of which is the aura.

You can recognize the aura by signs such as the feeling that there is fog, glowing dots, or a glossy broken line, a lot of vertigo, in severe cases of hallucinations that can be tactile, visual and auditory. The patient may be disturbed by coordination and speech, thinking is difficult. This lasts until half an hour.

Then there is a throbbing pain in the head, which increases for an hour, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. The pain concentrates in the field of the temple and gives into the eye. The face first pale then reddened, and lachrymation begins. The eye, which gives pain, turns red. The attack can last up to two days.

• Migraine vulgaris. Aura is absent, vision is not disturbed. A state of depression or euphoria may occur, accompanied by a yawn and a strong sense of hunger. The pain extends to the forehead, the temple and the occipital part of the head. Accompanied by nausea and nasal congestion, the temperature may rise.

The peculiarity of a normal migraine is that it can begin in a dream or shortly after waking up. It lasts an average of seventeen hours. And often this form of the disease ceases to migraine status, in which pain can last several days.

• Associated migraine. Its difference is that it is associated with neurologic defects. Paresis of the muscles of the face or eyes, and mental disorders.

The doctor should treat the disease.

In this case, drug therapy is especially effective before the onset of an attack at the time when symptoms begin to appear. For this use tranquilizers based on benzodiazepine:

• seduxen,
• elenium,
• phenazepam,
• hydazepam,
• tazepam,
• lorazepam,
• tofizopam.

3 Rapid action medications

Migraine and its symptoms are treated with pills. Preparations, the mechanism of action of which nonspecific reduces pain not only with migraine, but also in other diseases. Methods of drug selection:

Step method:

• First step. The appointment of cheap and often ineffective drugs, such as analgin, paracetamol, ketorolac.
• The second step. If in due course the appointed or nominated preparations became inefficient, pass to treatment by the combined agents: pentalginum, sedalgin, kobispazm. The third step is the use of specific drugs that have anti-migraine action: antimigrene, zolmigren, amigrene.

The disadvantage of this treatment is the patient's getting used to taking analgesics. In this case, migraine can be transformed into a chronic form.

But this method justifies itself with a mild migraine.

Stratified method:

• It is used to treat patients with severe form of the disease starting immediately with specific antimigraine drugs: zomig, zolmigren, amigrene.

Self-medication can harm your health, so you should consult your doctor to diagnose the disease and prescribe a qualified treatment.