NATURAL CURES THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT

About a month ago, I got a migraine headache. Up until that time, I had only experienced something like once before. Having a brother-in-law that suffers from migraines, I knew they were bad news, but had very little actual experience with them.

Then, just last weekend, I was in town with my family and a Big Mama Migraine came by and slapped me senseless.

My mom, always the fan of the natural cure for ailments, went scouring the Internet for info on beating migraines. Here's one thing she found:

There are several approaches to relieve a migraine, but the best one is to prevent it altogether. The high drive personality of a migraine sufferer is usually mostly to blame. This person should slow down in his stressful business and/or personal life. But when a migraine attack is inevitable, the person should not give into it by going to bed or abruptly slowing down his activities.

If he or she gives into the headache slowly and not quickly, it will keep the blood vessels from over relaxing and therefore causing the first ebb and flow of the migraine. Fresh air, coffee, a massage and a heat lamp applied on the back of the neck can help to restore circulation and relieve the pain.


The nutritional approach can also help the sufferer. He or she should be eating a high vitamin, high mineral and high protein diet. Additional supplements should also be taken. The sufferer should check with his or her doctor before using any of these natural remedies for their migraine headache relief. Remember that migraines can be caused by lots of stress and also nutritional deficiencies.

The sufferer needs to relax and start taking it easy (or easier!) and of course needs to eat a nutritional diet along with supplements. Prevention is the key for curing migraines!

I think there's a lot of good stuff here and I'm trying to implement some of them, but the thing that baffles me is the encouragement that I should "give into" a migraine. That I should keep moving, working, doing my normal stuff and gradually ease into rest. I don't know if you've ever suffered from one of these headaches, but usually I turn into a weepy little girl.

Anybody got tips for beating migraine?