6 Ways To Attack Your Migraine Or Give You Brain Freeze

No one enjoys a migraine attack.  The best course of action to prevent an oncoming attack is to be the first to attack.  Don't wait until you are honestly and truely in the thralls of a fight with the monster, we call migraine.

1.  Practice meditation - Take 5 minutes to perform some form of meditation. My favorite, is to channel blood flow to my hands. This is sometimes called the "warm hands" technique. I just tried my 'hand' at creating and sharing an .mp3 file on my blog. This recording will give you the basic idea, if you can get past the sound of my voice.

Warm Hands Meditation MP3

2.  Take your abortive medicine! If you have one, take it immediately. Even if you only 'think' the monster is in the house. Better safe than sorry, and if it works, you could be without the migraine onset, and recover several hours that may have knocked you down, for who knows how long.

3.  Ice packs on the point of the pain or the back of the neck.  The ice pack is the first tool to be used, to decrease inflammation in everything from a sprained ankle, finger, or bruising, to the migraine.

4.  Pressure point manipulation is another way to keep a migraine at bay or stop it entirely.  This can be done by a chiropractor, acupuncturist, or in some limited ways, by yourself.  The most common form of self pressure point manipulation is to take the thumb and forefinger of one hand and squeeze the fleshy part of the other hand, between the thumb and forefinger. I’ve been told that if the migraine is on the left side of the head, start by squeezing the right hand. It doesn’t hurt to do both sides, either.

5.  Prayer. This is really the first thing I do. My first preventative. I start each day in prayer and specifically ask for healing, and a pain free day. I also say a prayer when I feel the first signs of an oncoming attack, as I am sure many do.

6. Eat some ice cream! Sounds silly, but this has worked for me more than a dozen times for an attack that started like a 2x4 to the brain pan. It may be because the ice cream may numb the roof of the mouth and may work in the same way as the ice packs. Brain freeze may be a good thing after all.


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Migraine: Using Natural Remedies

I am glad that some can find releif in natural products. I have taken Migrelief, Feverfew, large doses of vitamin B-2 and magnesium, as well as many others (I will have to pull out my list and put in a post). Although, I never found complete relief, I did have some herbal remedies provide a decrease in ether severity or duration of my migraines.

I would much rather find a natural cure than take the handful of man-made prescription medicines that I take up to 4 times a day. Currently the mexilitine that I am taking seems to be decreasing the severity of my headaches a lot. But at a cost. I am finding that I am losing some of the fine motor skills my right side.

--Andy