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Below are some listed treatments that are natural and non-medical. They are not 100% guaranteed to work, so they are only suggested.

-You should avoid coming in contact with bright or flashing light.

-Go and lie down in a dark room.

-Take a shower or bath.

-Put a cold compress on your forehead and put your feet in a container of warm water.

-Have a drink of water or natural juice, like tomato juice.

-Massage your own neck, shoulders, face, head, or getting someone else to do it might help. You need to relax your muscles.

-Massage the fleshy area between the forefinger and the thumb.

-There are two pressure points on the back of your neck…They are two inches apart just below the base of the skull. Pressing on these pressure points for a couple minutes or so will help endorphins that fight against pains.

-Stretch the head and neck muscles by gently leaning your head to the left and right. Relax any tense muscles.

-Avoid any source’s of stress. You should also cancel any physical activity that might worsen the symptoms of your migraine.

-Avoid doing exercise during a migraine as this might also worsen the symptoms of a migraine.

-Take some Niacin. Niacin is a form of a B vitamin, and will help provide a flush and thus providing relief from the headache pain. Be careful though as Niacin has side-effects also such as: Heart burn, liver damage, flushing. And it is possible that Niacin itself can trigger a migraine.

-Take some vitamin B6, tryptophan, magnesium, and vitamin C.

Migraines Treatment Tips

1. Conventional treatment focuses on three areas: preventive drugs, trigger avoidance, symptomatic control.

2. Moderate your consumption of caffeine and alcohol, be consistent with sleep habits, and eat regular meals on a daily basis.

3. You may also want to look into Triptans.

4. You can use ergot drugs to be used as a preventive therapy, although they can be relatively expensive.

5. For chronic migraine attacks, you can use sumatriptan and related selective serotonin receptor agonists.

6. Sometimes anti-emetics by injection or suppository may be needed in cases where vomiting dominates the symptoms.

7. You can also look into a amidrine prescription for common migraine headaches.

8. Intravenous chlorpromazine has proven very effective in treating status migrainosus—intractable and unremitting migraine.

9. Diet, visualization, and self-hypnosis are also alternative treatments and prevention approaches.

10. Massage therapy and physical therapy are often very effective forms of treatment to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraines.

11. Massage therapy of the jaw area can also reduce such pain.

12. Botox is being used by many headache specialists for patients with frequent or chronic migraines with encouraging results.

13. Try to avoid any factors that have triggered a migraine in the past.