Migraines as symptoms of anxiety
April 29th, 2008 | by admin |Migraines often start in a persons teen years and are very painful headaches nothing like a usual headache that will go after taking a couple of pain killers. Sometimes they will last for many days but usually for a few hours but can be so painful that the victim has to go to bed. An attack is debilitating and sufferers are usually left feeling crippled and exhausted after the head pain has passed.
Some sufferers only experience only one attack per year whereas for someone who is liable to frequent attacks, this in the range of one or two every month. Certain symptoms are common for many sufferers including a problem with bright lights, sometimes even dull light, in addition to flu like chills and lightheadedness. Most migraine attacks occur between the ages of 10 to 40 years old although why this is no-one really knows; although it is unusual for the condition to afflict anyone over the age of fifty.
It is quite common for members of the same family group to suffer with migraine attacks; even though there may be a link, so far it has eluded medical science - though they can also be one of the symptoms of anxiety. There is a condition that causes an inflammation of blood vessels in the brain and it is possible that people who suffer have sensitivity in this area. With this condition, women do not fare as well as men with a ratio of 3 to 1 suffering from the condition regularly; only about eight percent of men will have an attack in their lives so it is very much a condition that affects women.
