Migraine Triggers-Paint Fumes and Benadryl

In an attempt to discover what it is that causes these unbearable migraine headaches to begin, I have noticed a few triggers that set them off in my life. It is always at night when I awake from a deep sleep that I get the worst ones. During the day I am involved with construction related projects and I have discovered a few things that cause the headaches to start while I am working.

There is one medication that I tried to take to help me sleep because for several days the migraines had been causing sleepless nights. Usually Benadryl knocks me out cold. Well when I tried it during a period that I had been experiencing horrible headaches I fell sound asleep, only to awaken to the most alarming migraine of the week. During that particular bout with the attack that lasted for a month I decided to not try the Benadryl again.

It was two years later when my next migraine attach hit me and I tried the Benadryl again only to have the exact thing happen again, a screaming, pounding headache in the middle of my sleep woke me again. So, at night Benadryl is a major migraine trigger for me.

During the daytime while working construction jobs, paint fumes, lacquer thinners, contact glues and other strong smelling chemicals can cause a headache to start. What I have discovered during the day is that I can always tell when one is beginning. This gives me time to take some medicine to bring it to a halt before it reaches its peak level of pain.

I have been trying to monitor various foods, but have not really had an earth shattering discoveries that would relate a migraine headache to any certain type of food. The two triggers that I mentioned, I can certainly connect them directly to being triggers for migraines.

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