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The 4 colors of migraine

Know your headache. Indeed, there are different kinds of migraine. They are distinguished primarily by their mechanism. The advantage of knowing that you are suffering is to optimize your treatment. Explanations of Dr Michel Dib, a neurologist and migraine specialist *.
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What are the different kinds of headaches?

Dr Michel Dib: Migraine occurs always in the same way: throbbing pain and often nausea, intolerance to light, noise. In contrast, the migraine attacks have different causes.

The first type of migraines are triggered by food, through serotonin, a messenger in the brain. The 2nd type headaches are triggered by stress and changes of pace, as the arrival of the weekend, holiday or are headaches that occur during the night, and are caused by adrenaline (stress hormone ).

The 3rd type of migraine is related to menstruation (menstrual migraine) and under the influence of hormonal factors.

Finally, the 4th type of headache is accompanied by diffuse muscle pain, especially at the shoulders, head. These pains are very different from the throbbing pain of migraine attack, even if they accompany. They are akin to a disease called fibromyalgia. Such headaches muscle will quickly degenerate and occur at a rate very frequently, more than 15 days per month, sometimes, in addition, chronic daily headaches. It is very important to identify migraine muscle because the treatment requires taking care of two elements: the classic throbbing migraine whose origin is inflammation in the arteries and the muscular element that comes from a heightened sensitivity muscles, as in fibromyalgia.
This kind of migraine is very little known to both physicians and patients.