Take the Redbook poll . Mild to severe throbbing often on one side of head, usually accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light and noise.
Migraines can last from a couple of hours up to four days.
Also try an ice pack at the nape of neck or side of head, and rest in a dark room. For severe migraines, prescription painkillers or migraine medicines such as ergot compounds that stabilize the brain chemistry. Confusing the underlying biological cause of a headache with the trigger that activates it. Patients are sometimes sent to many specialists nutritionists, allergists, dentists who focus on the trigger and fail to prescribe the best treatments. The following activators are commonly mistaken as causes.