How To Control and Manage Cardiac Migraine?

Cardiac Migraine is a syndrome of classical migraine with chest pain and sometimes accompanied with Hypoglycemia or low blood sugar.

In cardiac-migraine patients may experience palpitations, anxiety and chest pain. Some category of patients complains of Atrial fib with migraine.

Cardiac migraine patients generally complain of headache, nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light, noise and smell.

You may be suffering from some or all of these symptoms. Find the solution down the line.

If you are one who suffers from migraines frequently, you may need prophylactic treatment.

If you have one single episode of severe migraine attack you may go for an abortive therapy with midrin and steroids as options.

Latest agents such as Imitrex and Zomig are better to avoid as they entail risk of cardiac side effects.

Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular complications may come in with patients suffering from cardiac migraine and the solution you have is Triptan treatment.

It has not yet been established if migraine acts as a risk factor to stroke, but strokes are sometimes accompanied by migraines as one of its symptoms.

Anticogulation may lessen the incidence of migraine with success in most of the patients.

Severe migraine patients who do not respond to first line treatment of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) are administered Triptans such as Imitrex and Zomig.

Triptans are now being preferred method of migraine treatment. Triptans act on the nerves, which are abnormally activated and inflamed ultimately leading to migraines.

At the same time, Triptans restrict blood flow to the heart proving to be hazardous to heart patients.

Such patients should not use Triptans. Patients on Triptan to treat migraine may experience tightening of the chest for an hour or so after ingesting the drug.

This is not an indication of any cardiac disease or exertion.

If you are a person suffering from debilitating migraines, rest assured of a reduction in the likelihood of a heart attack. Migraines are common in young women of the age group of 25 - 30 years.

After menopause when a woman's risk to heart attack increases, rate of migraines drop by two-thirds. In middle-aged and older people migraine is not an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease.

Use this guideline to manage and control Cardiac type Migraine yourself. Relieve yourself from the pain and other symptoms associated with Cardiac Migraine.

Posted by Jan Heering
Headache – Migraine Treatment Expert and Author
Founder and President of the Morpheus Institute and
www.headache-migraine-release.com

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