| Some people suffer from headaches on a regular | | | | begins. Light flashes and zigzag lines could be |
| basis. They have these aches and pains, | | | | within your vision, and you may experience a hole |
| sometimes pounding headaches that are caused | | | | in your line of sight, as if you can not see things |
| by all kinds of things, from the weather to stress | | | | when looking directly at them. |
| to hormones that are naturally in the body. But | | | | I know that my wife, when she has these signs |
| there is a type of headache that is much worse | | | | can overcome the migraine by working on it at |
| than the others put together and is enough to | | | | that point. The headache will then progress to |
| bring even the strongest of us to our knees. This | | | | perhaps a pain that is on one or both sides of the |
| is what is commonly known as a migraine | | | | head, perhaps with pulsating or pounding |
| headache, and if the problem persists it can | | | | sensations, nausea and an inability to function |
| actually become chronic. | | | | because of the pain. Some of the things that can |
| Migraines are typically broken down into two | | | | cause a migrane headache are what are known |
| distinct types, some that come with an | | | | as common triggers. They include hormonal |
| accompanying set of symptoms and another that | | | | changes in the body, different types of food, |
| does not have those symptoms. They include the | | | | drinks, caffeine, nicotine, changes in the way that |
| following that may or may not accompany the | | | | we sleep and in our environment and some |
| headache, and usually occur before the headache | | | | medications that we may be taking. |