We all know someone who has one. They are as mysterious as they are annoying. Doctors have been scrambling to figure out the root cause of migraines for decades. Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. households includes someone with a migraines, and over $36 Billion dollars is spent each year to attempt to treat and cure migraines with no success.
Facts about
Migraines
• 12% of the population – including children – suffers from migraines.
• 18% of American women, 6% of men, and 10% of children experience migraines.
• Migraines are most common between the ages of 25 and 55.
• More than 4 million people experience chronic daily migraine – with at least 15 migraine days per month.
• Medication overuse is the most common reason why episodic migraines turn chronic.
• Depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances are common for those with chronic migraines.
The Aftermath of Migraines.
• Health care and lost productivity costs associated with migraines are estimated to be as high as $36 billion annually in the U.S.
• Healthcare costs are 70% higher for a family with a migraine sufferer than a non-migraine affected family.
• American employers lose more than $13 billion each year because of 113 million lost work days due to migraines.
• In the U.S., people with migraines receive $1 billion worth of brain scans each year.
Who is at risk?
• Migraines affect about 28 million women in the U.S.
• Before puberty, boys are affected more than girls, but during adolescence, the risk of a migraine and its severity rises in girls.
• Roughly 1 in 4 women will experience migraines in their lives.
• Three times as many women as men suffer from migraines in adulthood.
• About half of female sufferers have more than one attack each month, and a quarter experience about 10% of school-age children suffer from migraines.
• Children who suffer are absent from school twice as often as children without migraines.
• In childhood, boys suffer from migraines more often than girls; as adolescence approaches, the incidence increases more rapidly in girls than in boys.
• A child who has one parent with migraines has a 50% chance of inheriting it, and if both parents have migraines, the chances raise to 75% they’ll inherit 4 or more severe attacks per month.
If we can cure Small Pox, What’s so mysterious about migraines?
The confusion arises when the doctor is narrow-minded. The head hurts we look at the head and brain for the problems. If this consistently proves to fail as a tactic, this is not a solution.
So, you can see that the money and effort that is put into fixing the problem is simply being wasted on drugs, surgeries, and more drugs.
And this brings me to my point, instead of taking more pills; find out what’s causing it first. Let’s look at the whole body and see what’s changed, find out how your habits and your environment have created this issue, and more importantly, how to stop the pain altogether.
Let’s look outside the box!
Your headaches can be referred from other parts of the body.
#1: Gallbladder ( a small gland behind the liver that produces Bile). Why you ask? The gallbladder, if congested can irritate a little nerve called the Phrenic nerve. This nerve under your right rib cage travels up to the right side of your neck. The entire right side of your neck and head can be in pain from a congested gallbladder. In Chinese Medicine, the gallbladder meridian travels up into your head around your temples. Acupuncturists have known for years that headaches can stem from the gallbladder.
#2: Pinch Nerve. The nerves in your neck, when pinched can travel up into your head. Chiropractors specialize in adjusting and realigning the neck vertebras reducing pain and headaches.
#3: Sinus. Sinus congestion will put pressure on your face and head. This is usually stemming from an impacted mucous filled sinus.
#4: Hormonal. When a female goes through her period each month, there can be massive changes in hormones, especially estrogen. This hormone creates a vasoconstriction (tightening) of the arteries in the head if there is too much estrogen in the body.
#5: Head Injuries. Believe it or not, headaches or migraines only get triggered from head injuries a small percentage of the time. Old head injuries can cause migraines years later. Apparently, head trauma tends to stay with you.
So, from here we have a direction in which to seek to solve this issue and understand it as well. So, the secret to solving headaches is finding which cause it is. Medically speaking, drugs are the only answer. However, alternative medicine can provide natural help. Don’t let the doctors convince you that it’s a curse that you’ll have to live with or that drugs are the only answer.
Take your life back and keep it.
Chiropractors such as Dr. Charles Ardnt specialize in correcting the spinal issues that can cause migraines. Schedule a consultation today.
