Migraines and Stress WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Migraines and Stress
Stress can be a common trigger for a migraine headache. Chemicals, that help with stress, are released by your brain during stressful situations. The release of these chemicals also affects your blood vessels which is thought to provoke a migraine headache.1
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- Ways to help reduce stress include a healthy diet, exercise, getting plenty of rest, and learning techniques to help you relax.2
- Antidepressant medications may help with stress related migraines.1
- Identify migraine triggers by keeping a migraine diary and avoid your known triggers.3
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Research Notes References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WebMD: Headaches, Migraines, and Stress
- ↑ eMedTV: Stress-Related Migraines
- ↑ A.D.A.M. (via Medline Plus): Migraines Prevention
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- Contributor: Judy Rafferty
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Judy Rafferty
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Migraine headache and stress, Stress and migraine headaches, Stress and migraines, Stress related migraines, Can stress cause migraines, Migraines caused by stress, Is stress a migraine trigger, Is stress causing my Migraine headache
- Last update: Jul. 25, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
