Can lifestyle changes help?
Some people are really sensitive, and they need to get the same amount of sleep every night or they will get a migraine. Exercise can be really helpful. In addition to overall wellness, when you exercise, you get to a certain point where your body starts to make beta endorphins, chemicals that make you feel better and decrease pain. If you can exercise consistently, that can really help. A lot of people are taught the old food triggers of cheese and chocolate and red wine, and what we have found is that none of these except possibly red wine are known migraine triggers. As for cheese and chocolate and preservatives, it’s very individualized. With our busy lives, we tend to eat really badly. And one thing that I think helps is to try to keep your glycemic index steady. What you want to do is try to keep your blood sugar from fluctuating tremendously by eating small amounts of food that are really nutritious fairly frequently during the day. What kind of a doctor should you see if you ha
