If you suffer from frequent migraine headaches or maybe just once every few months, you know how painful and disruptive a migraine can be. You might have had to call off work early or take the entire day off from work or miss a family social event due to a migraine headache. You may have tried to take OTC drugs to help stop a migraine before it starts or reduce the pain while it was occurring...

Hypnosis is not just an entertainer's trick to please and amuse crowds. Hypnotherapists are helping migraineurs ease their pain. Sometimes they are even able to relieve other migraine symptoms like vomiting and sensitivity to light and sound, too. The hypnotist's goal is to relax patients into a trancelike state in order to access their subconscious mind. A good therapist will then...

Migraine headaches are described as being of a recurrent nature. They are characterized by certain symptoms that precede the actual onset of the headache. These are called prodromal symptoms and may include one or several typical symptoms in each patient. The prodromal symptoms include spots before the eyes, visual field defects, flashes of light, unusual sounds, irritability, depression,...

Migraine headaches affect about twenty-eight million Americans and may be the most debilitating of all headaches. Not only does the patient have explosive pain with a cluster of other symptoms but there is also the worry about future attacks. Doctors do not know what causes migraines and there is no cure for them. However, there are treatments available that can lessen the severity and reduce the...

We all have had it in varying frequencies and intensities. In fact, both adults and children alike may suffer occasionally from this throbbing pain. Headaches can be brought about by a number of reasons - tension, infection, allergy, injury, hunger, change in the flow of blood in the head or an exposure to offensive chemicals. A rough day in the office can bring about headaches as well as too...