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Migraine Symptoms With An Uncomfortable Headache

By Veronica Tripplethorn

People who suffer regularly from migraine headaches can probably give you a list of their migraine symptoms without even needing to think much about it. This is because each person tends to have their own individual manifestation of symptoms that occur each time they get the headache.

The symptoms include some that actually warn that the headache is coming, and of course those that accompany the head pain when it finally arrives. Almost all these individual traits come from a larger "pool" of symptoms that seem to apply as a whole to migraines.

In what is called the classic migraine, the advance warning symptoms tend to revolve around the "aura," which is usually a visual effect. The person might see flashes or zigzags of light, experience a blind spot in their vision, or become extra sensitive to light in general.

Recurring Symptoms With Migraines

This light sensitivity can continue through the entire headache, and is one reason why so many migraine sufferers need to go to bed with all light blocked off. But they can review other migraine symptoms, including things like unexpected euphoria, tingling in the hands and feet, or even a sudden craving for sweet or salty foods.

Even if the person doesn’t experience an aura, their chronic migraines will manifest other types of recurring symptoms. They could find themselves slowly becoming extra sensitive to smells around them, to sounds or to temperature, for example.

Headache Concentrated On One Side Of The Head

But the most common of all the migraine symptoms is the headache itself, which usually concentrates on one side of the head, centering on the temple. It isn’t always the same side of the head either, but can alternate between attacks. Nor is it confined to the temple area for everyone; it can extend itself to surround the eyes, or move to the back of the head.

While this long list of symptoms makes them appear so wildly divergent and even unrelated, there is an underlying migraine connection to all of them. This is because a migraine is more than "just" a headache; it is a genetically-based disease that activates the person’s nerves to become oversensitive, resulting in migraine symptoms that can affect virtually any part of their body.

So you can have a person with a "silent migraine," who has all the visual effects of the aura but no headache, or you can have a person who suffers the headache and never has the visual manifestations. Yet they, and others with completely different symptoms, all have the underlying migraine in common.

Please Note: All information given on this site is for general information purposes and is not to replace any medical opinion or medical diagnosis given by a qualified medical doctor, a dietitian/nutritional expert or any other medical expert, as individual circumstances may vary. Please see your medical doctor, before any action is taken to alleviate symptoms.

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About the Author:
Veronica Tripplethorn is an author of health, nutrition, dieting and weight loss articles including Massage Therapy, Massages, Aromatherapy Massage, Hollywood 48-Hour Miracle Diet.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles coming soon.

More Facts About Migraines...

What can cause migraines?
For as much as doctors and researchers know about the human body there is still quite a lot that they do not know. Migraines are one of these vague topics. A migraine can be triggered by many different things so researchers are a bit mixed on exactly what can cause a migraine in a person. Some doctors’ claim that caffeine can trigger a migraine and so warn their patients away from it.

Others say that chocolate or milk products can trigger a migraine. There may also be a physical reason for having a migraine. Studies have shown that people with small lesions in one particular area of the brain are more prone to these types of headaches than others are. But what is interesting is that it is not known whether these lesions occurred naturally or were actually the result of a history of migraine headaches.