On the first signal of a migraine, WebMD blogger Michele Jordan tackles it head-on. She is aware of her triggers – the three Cs: cheese, chocolate, and cocktails.  However endurance with herself and understanding from others goes a good distance, she says.


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MICHELE JORDAN: Hello, my title is Michele Jordan. I am from Los Angeles, California. I’ve had migraines for over 30 years. And I’m a author. I do plenty of well being and medical writing principally for WebMD.


There are lots of triggers that I’ve for my migraines, first what I name the three Cs: cheese, chocolate, and cocktails. These three issues get me each time. And so they’re three of my favourite issues. These are a few of my triggers. I’ve observed that stress, not getting sufficient sleep, not getting sufficient meals. At any time when my physique feels out of steadiness, I are likely to have a migraine.


I typically have extreme nausea with my migraines, often some vomiting, dizziness, fatigue. Typically it might have an effect on your speech, your eyesight. It actually does impression different areas of your physique than simply your head.


Whew, my relationship with migraine has modified through the years. I keep in mind being very younger and really scared. Despite the fact that migraine runs in my household on my mom’s facet, I did not know simply how intense the ache can be and the way critical and debilitating the signs are, nausea and sensitivity to gentle and different issues.


So after I had migraines, I actually was afraid that I would not be capable of handle them alone as I obtained older. I used to be grateful that I began having them whereas dwelling with my dad and mom. However as I moved out alone, and I began working, driving much more across the metropolis, I actually was nervous that I’d have a migraine episode with out anybody to assist me. I even needed to go to the emergency room a couple of occasions to get ache reduction for extreme migraine.


I’ve discovered so many classes about coping with migraine episodes. Two vital classes I’ve discovered, one, the primary one is to assault them immediately. I used to disregard migraines. I used to proceed with my day, proceed working, working errands, no matter I used to be doing, pondering it could go away, or I might simply brush it below the rug.





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