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Hi,

I inter at a Neurology lab at UCLA and my lab is next to the headach program director's office and over the course of my employment have gotten to know him.

I have been having week long headaches about 7 times a year usually before a stressful exam. He checked me for neurological damage and concluded that I have classic migraines and that stress is a trigger for me. He recommended a few non-prescription but also gave me a few other migraine-only medication to take during symptoms. Try RiboFlavon a few days before a stressful day to get the body ready.

He told me that usually migraines set in when a combination of triggers and irregularities are occuring at once. Such as both stress and sleep-deprivation. He mentioned that caffeine is a powerful anti-migarine medication but that changing the daily intake can trigger it as well. So it's fine to take coffee as long as you drink the same every day. Before a stressful exam I should try to regulate on other potential tirggers by managing my sleep better and excersicing (a great non-prescription aid).

Migraine-only medications work differently than painkillers becasue they target only the brain and therefore won't do any good for other pains.

I'll keep you posted on which prescription medications work best.
Tags: migraine, headache
Posted By: maksim310 1 Year, 5 months, 1 Week, 3 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes ago Personal Story
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