Brain and ENT Clinic – Dr Lalit Mahajan In Nagpur & Dr Rachna Gangwani Mahajan In Nagpur
Migraine in Nagpur
A migraine in Nagpur is a severe headache as compared to other headaches causing throbbing, pulsing head pain on half of the head. Physical activity or movements, light, and sound is the migraine trigger.
There are some symptoms like fatigue, nausea, vision change, irritability and more. The migraine headache lasts at least four hr to for days, and the pain is gets worse with the trigger like Physical activity, Bright lights, Loud noises, Strong odors.
Treatments options are available to manage migraines.
Migraine is a common condition about 12% of the people experience migraine.
There are different types of migraine are:
- Migraine in children
- Chronic migraine
- Hemiplegic migraine
- Menstrual migraine
- Silent migraine
- Retinal migraine
Phases of Migraine in Nagpur:
There are four phases of migraine prodrome, aura, headache, postdrome.
- Prodrome: This is a first phase that begins before 24 hours before starts headache.
- Aura: Sensory, motor or speech symptoms that act as a warning sign of a migraine headache are called as aura. The aura phase can last as five to 60 minutes. Sometimes patients can experience aura and headache at the same time.
- Headache: Headache is a sharp pain lasts between four hours to 72 hours.
- Postdrome: The postdrome is the last stage from few hours up to 48 hours. Symptoms like alcohol hangover and called as migraine hangover
Migraine Symptoms:
Symptoms of the migraine are depended on their stages. Once, Every stage is different but it is not necessary that patients experience every symptom in each stage.
- Prodrome symptoms: Mood changes, Difficulty in concentration, sleeping trouble, fatigue, nausea, increase hunger and thirst, frequent urination are the symptoms of prodrome.
- Aura symptoms: Muscle weakness, Vision changes, Sensitivity to touch, Numbness and tingling, Difficulty speaking or concentrating are the symptoms of aura.
- Headache attack symptoms: Increase in pain and gets more intense and affect one side of the head symptoms like Nausea and vomiting, Light, sound and odour sensitivity.
- Postdrome symptoms: Fatigue, Stiff neck, Sensitivity to light and sound, Difficulty concentrating, Nausea, Dizziness are the symptoms of postdrome.
Causes a migraine:
There is not the exact cause of migraines, but genetics play a role. When patients have a headache, specific nerves send pain signals to the brain. Since This releases inflammatory substances that starts migraine pain.
Sometimes trigger is responsible to start migraine pain. The common triggers are Stress, hormonal changes, certain medications, sleep pattern changes, changes in weather condition, extra physical activity, Missing a meal, Exposure to bright lights, loud noises or strong odors. Patients needs to identify the trigger to avoid headache.
Diagnosis and Test Migraine in Nagpur:
Your doctor will diagnose a migraine after physical exam and neurological exam. Thus, He also takes medical history and ask few questions to learn more about the symptoms like experiencing symptoms, location of the headache, time duration of the symptoms etc. Your doctor prescribed some blood test and imaging tests such as CT scan or MRI scan or electroencephalogram (EEG) to make sure the cause of the headache.
Treatments For Migraine in Nagpur:
There is no cure for migraine but doctors can give you some medication to manage the symptoms of the migraine. Therefore, Doctors also suggest to avoiding migraine triggers or using alternative migraine remedies.