I have noticed a definite season when migraines begin. Some women might say it was when their first child was born and they finally hit the terrible twos stage. Others may just attribute the frequency of experiencing the mysterious throbbing to changes in climate. I have definitely noticed that my headaches are seasonal. Although I can say that they do not necessarily occur on a annual basis, for me, they have been more hit or miss. I’ve actually gone as long as a five year span without having to battle with the shooting pain over my right eye.
When the first bout occurred, it hit me late in the evening. I was awakened by a very uncomfortable, intense shooting pain over one specific area of my eye. Although this was over twenty years ago, I remember it like it was yesterday. As the crest of the headache wave would peek, I would moan like I had never before in my life. Being married at the time, my wife decided to take me to the emergency room.
It was during the spring time when I experienced the first migraine of my life. Imagine this, twenty years later the doctors have now stopped treating the headaches as sinus infections. Yes, for many years my doctor would prescribe me antibiotics until the headaches stopped. Along with the medication always came a prescription for some type of pain medication.
As the years progressed I began to notice that the headaches would almost always start in early spring or during the summertime. My doctor began to wonder if I was having allergies and began to offer suggestions to me about trying allergy medications. He never wrote me any prescriptions for meds, but directed me to get over the counter medications such as Benadryl or Claritin D. I tried them both and they only seemed to make the migraines worse.
From most of the studies that I have read about migraine headaches many specialists suggest that they are related to changes in the climate. Recently I read an article written by a doctor who is in New York. He gave statistics that proved this theory. Because of his findings and survey results derived from monitoring his patients activities, I now believe that the painful migraines that I experience during the spring or summer time are directly related to a change in climate.
Because the season is always during summer or spring the headaches could be related to changes in temperature or it is possible that they are triggered by something that is blooming. The mysteries that surround people getting migraine headaches are being solved as we progress in technology and the study of medicine.
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Season When Migraines Begin-Summer or Spring
Posted by JC at 8:01 AM
Labels: alergy, headaches during spring, migraine alergies, migraines summer, seasons for migraines
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