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Natural Remedies For Migraines

Migraines can have many causes.

  1. Sensitivities to certain foods or compounds or smells.
  2. Hormone shifts.
  3. Posture.
  4. A short leg or one flat foot.
  5. Trigger points.

Ha!  I bet you didn’t know about the last three, did you?  I’ll bet your doctor doesn’t, either.  Most don’t.

That’s okay.  My goal is to help you get rid of those miserable migraines.

Sometimes the only way to get better is to be your own doctor or therapist.  Please don’t get me wrong–I love doctors!  Even surgeons!  I wouldn’t be here today talking with you otherwise.

But there is so much for them to know and so little time to spend with you.  And mostly doctors learned about meds in med school.  They didn’t learn much about muscles or the causes of migraines.

I’m talking to you on your level.  I have been where you are.  Migraines took blocks of days out of my life.

But now if I sleep crooked and get a migraine it’s much more controllable and rare.

I wrote an easy-to-use self-help book to help you be your own headache doctor and therapist.

It’s short and to the point because who wants to read tons of words when your head hurts?  There are helpful illustrations, too.  You really can get rid of your migraines and headaches naturally or at least seriously reduce them.

Head Pain Natural Relief: Discover Why You Get Headaches and Migraines and How to Make Them Stop explains why you hurt and exactly what to do to eliminate your headaches or migraine pain.  It’s available in soft cover, which I recommend so you can mark it up, or Kindle version.  If you don’t have a Kindle, Amazon will give you a Kindle reader for your phone or computer for free.

You don’t have to keep suffering when there are natural remedies available for headaches and migraines.

 

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Migraine Headache Help – 7 Simple Pain Relief Tips for Your Migraines

The best thing to do for a migraine is not to let it start!

There are many things we can do to prevent migraines, at least a lot of the time.  In the meantime, if you have a migraine, or feel one coming on, here are some tips to help you feel better.

As you know, aspirin generally doesn’t do a thing for a migraine headache.  However, there are 2 over-the-counter remedies that might help.

1.  Aleve (or its’ generic, naproxin) may work for you if you take a dose (1 or 2 tablets) at the onset–follow the directions on the label.  In 2019 or so, it became added to sumatriptan prescription medication.  That also caused the cost of the prescription to go up a ton, so just add it separately yourself if you take sumatriptan.

2.  Alka Seltzer may work, because it gives you a fully-dissolved dose of aspirin all at once.  Follow directions on the label.

Here are some other simple pain relief remedies to try:

1.  If the muscles on the tops of your shoulders are all “jammed up,” try a heating pad or heated cloth bag filled with rice to relax your shoulders.

2.  Lie down with an ice pack or cold pack comfortably positioned under your neck and the base of your skull.  Place a cold, wet cloth over your eyes.  If the cloth warms up, keep a basin of cool water next to your bed to refresh it.

If the cloth is drippy, that’s fine.  It’s actually good, because the cold drips will affect more of the nerves and muscles on your head.  Just put a plastic bag and towel under your head and shoulders to catch the drips.

3.  Don’t be shy about pushing or pulling on the muscles around your ears, temples, forehead, back of your head, or anywhere you can reach.  Sometimes the migraine is from the inside out, and sometimes it’s from the outside in.

4.  Pull your hair.  The soft tissues around your whole head get tight with a migraine.  By clasping your fingers in your hair, close to your head, and pulling outward, you can use your hair as little levers to help relax your scalp muscles.

5.  Try to straighten up.  Your heavy head pulls on the muscles around your neck and shoulders when it’s in front of your body and can cause head pain.  If you can lift your chest, your head will move back and be more over your body and take some of the strain off your muscles & nerves.  Do this when you DON’T have a headache or migraine, too.

Here’s hoping that at least one of these tips will help you have less migraine pain.  And I wrote an easy-to-use book for you to help get rid of or reduce those miserable headaches and migraines naturally.

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