Why Do I Get Migraine Headaches?

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Headaches of any form are always painful to the sufferer. However, some headaches, such as migraines, for instance, can create even more problems than just a headache. These problems could be nausea, light sensitivity and a banging pain in the head. Sometimes the headache acts on one side of the head, and other times you can feel the pain on both sides of the head at the same time.

The actual causes of migraine headaches has not yet been discovered, although there are a few theories why people have migraine headaches. The most common theory is that an alteration in the blood flow within the brain is one of the triggers that causes migraine headaches. Another theory about migraine headache is that it could possibly be caused by pain sensing chemicals called neuropeptides.

Many medical professionals speculate that neuropeptides ease the muscle that surrounds the cranial blood vessels. This relaxation causes the blood vessels to dilate. The relaxed blood vessels increase the flow of blood and other cranial fluid to the brain. This increase in fluids is thought to be the cause of migraine headaches.

These cranial fluids cause swelling, pain, sensitivity, tissue and blood vessel inflammation during the time of migraine headaches. Some people think that the aura that is sometimes seen during a migraine headache is caused by the constriction of blood vessels that became dilated during the beginning phase of the migraine headache.

Another theory as to the reason for migraine headaches has been linked to the genetics of inheritance. These theories say that a child of migraine sufferers will have a 50% probability of having migraine headaches too.

The probability of inheriting migraine headaches becomes even greater if both parents are sufferers from this painful type of headache. If both parents are known to have frequent migraine headaches the chances of the child inheriting migraine headache symptoms rises to about 70%.

Even though many professionals are persuaded that inheritance plays a big role in migraine headaches, the genes that are considered to be the causes of migraine headaches have not been identified or even isolated yet. When we start to experience migraine headaches the only warning signs that we may expect to receive are a throbbing pain in the temple area and slight sickness.

As the symptoms of the migraine progresses, the pain becomes much more severe. Unfortunately, since the causes of migraine headaches have yet to be found and we don’t know what triggers these attacks, there are no medications to cure this type of headaches yet.

If you suffer from migraine or headaches, you really ought to definitely go to our website on Stopping Headaches.

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