Saturday, March 25, 2006
This time round I shall write something special. Recently I had read an article about headache and it makes me want to share with everybody. Your head is pounding and every one of your senses is on fire.
Here comes the pain again- that familiar throbbing in your head or at the base of the skull. All of the sudden you quickly pop a couple of pills, for hopes that it will go about your day. After all, it was just a headache right?
Not necessarily. It could be a migraine, a potentially serious condition that affects well over 100 million people worldwide. More than half of all the migraine sufferers have never been diagnosed by a doctor or were diagnosed incorrectly. They might have been told that they have tension headache or sinus. The dilemma is that they might really have migraine and may not be getting the best treatment. Almost everyone gets headaches and they can start young. Headache branch out into two parts and they are primary headache and secondary headaches. Primary headaches include tension headaches, migraine and cluster headaches. Secondary headaches are those that are caused by brain tumors, head injuries or aneurysms.
Seriously there are still a lot we still don’t know about headaches. Tension headache is so common that we don’t fully know what is going on in the brain. I believe most do not know that migraine affect women three time as often as they affect the men, and may triggered by hormonal changes. Attacks can last till four to seventy-two hours. Cluster headaches are relatively rare and mainly affect the men. These attacks are much shorter, from 30minutes to 90minutes and it can occur several times in a day.
A migraine is typically one-sided pain, tension headaches affects both sides of the head. Migraine pain throbs while tension headache is a steady ache. Migraine pain is moderate to severe while tension headache tends to be from mild to moderate. What surprises me is that migraine is always associated with other symptoms such as nausea or the sensitivity towards lights. Tension headache is simply what we called a headache.
All this that I had written are just brief explanation towards headache as I can’t really remember every single word that the article had wrote. If I had any flash back of the articles about headaches I will gladly update again. I still wonder what causes the brain to have headaches. I used to think that having migraine is like blood vessels had constricted then expand hence causing pain towards the brain. After reading the articles I was told that most headaches start with the trigeminal nerve which transmits the pain to the head hence causing non-painful stimuli.
Getting a proper diagnosis can means more than stopping the pain becomes severe headaches can affect more than just a headache. Migraines have been linked to a numbers of serious conditions includes strokes and obesity.
[I took this whole passage from the article as I found that this whole passage makes me have a deepen understanding of how a simple headache affect the whole body. To those who are interested, please free feel to read it.]
Stroke: a recent review of 14 studies suggests that certain migraine suffers are more likely to have a stroke than those who don’t get headaches Warning, those who took oral contraceptives are at greater risk as changes in blood flow to the brain will result in dangerous clotting.
Stomach problems; migraine can affect our stomach. we know about nausea and vomiting but during an attack, many sufferers experience gastric stasis, a condition in which the stomach emptiness too slowly. This will lead to slow absorption of pain-relieving medications into the bloodstream, hence prolonging the pain.
In fact there some others but Joyce are being too lazy to continue to read it and diligently update it here. Nowadays I was busy like a bee whether I was at home or in work. Twenty-four hour a day is simply not enough for me. I seldom have the time to read magazine or newspaper. Even if I have the time, I will choose to take a short nap as I forever lack of sleep. Sound like Joyce is being treated unfairly but tell you seriously is I don’t want to sleep at night. I am more alert when it was at night compared to day even thought I need to go to work. Weird thing is that I can wake up on time to heed off to work but when it was weekend my body alarm will back to normal, cant wake up early in the morning.
I think I will end here. eyes are tired and watery. I had to disappoint you guys as Joyce can’t think of any funny sentence to end my post. Brain is simply very tired as all the brain juice had been used up in work. All the tiredness is worth it as its Friday, no need to work tomorrow. I can sleep all I want on the weekend. Passengers, Joyce will be going to dreamland; gate will be closing in ten minutes time. Interested please act fast, seats are limited.
Joyce shine on ::3:20 PM::
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