Adull ache started behind my right eye one afternoon six months ago. By the evening it had morphed into a throb the size of a golf ball. It got so bad that after 3 hours of braving the pain I had to take a paracetamol and lie down. The painkiller didn�t help and I spent the evening feeling maddeningly alert given the throbbing in my head and the pangs of nausea that accompanied the pain.
The headache came in waves till it finally subsided. The headache came again around the same time next month and the months thereafter. There was a pattern, the headaches preceded my monthly period by exactly two days.
I consulted S. Murali, consultant neurologist at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. He took a detailed patient history and advised that I get a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan done to check for any structural abnormalities in the brain. The scan was normal and Dr Murali said what I was experiencing was a run-of-the-mill migraine headache.
A head start: Supplement medicines with relaxation techniques like meditation for quick relief.
Common though they may be, migraines can be extremely painful and debilitating. I was losing two-three days every month because there wasn�t much I could do except lie down once the headache started. Read More
Sujata Kelkar Shetty, PhD, writes on public health issues and is a research scientist trained at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, US.
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