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.