Chronic migraine occurs as severe throbbing pain or pulsating feeling on one side of the head. Migraine attacks lasts for hours to days and severely hampers your daily activities. Chronic migraine headache symptoms come in four stages, named as, prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. Medications, self-care remedies and lifestyle changes help to prevent them and make them less painful.
Here the four stages of chronic migraine headache symptoms are explained in details:
1. Prodrome: This is an upcoming stage which includes subtle symptoms that warn you of a migraine attack. The symptoms of this stage include constipation, mood changes, food cravings, neck stiffness, fluid retention and increased urination.
2. Aura: These are symptoms including the nervous system like visual phenomena (seeing flashes of bright light or different shapes), vision loss, and pins and needles in arm or leg, numbness in one side of body and face and speech difficulties.
3. Attack: This phase lasts up to 4-72 hours and includes symptoms like pain usually on one side of head as throbs and pulses, sensitivity to light, sound and touch, nausea and vomiting.
4. Post-drome: After a migraine attack, you may feel fatigue, confusion and completely washed out for a day. Sudden head movement might cause recurring pain.
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Chiropractic spinal decompression therapy is highly effective as it immediately goes to treat the cause of chronic headaches. It involves stretching the spine using traction to relieve pain and restore functionality of spine. This decrease in misalignment will eliminate headaches in a few days.
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