What Triggers a Migraine

If you suffer from migraines, learning what triggers a headache's onset may be your ticket to living migraine-free!

Sometimes a migraine headache seems to come out of nowhere but could something actually be setting them off? Although migraine headaches are actually caused by physical changes in the brain, nearly 85% of migraine sufferers report certain food or environmental changes can trigger their headache. Even though there are number of commonly recognized triggers, each trigger affects each individual patient differently. If you wan to identify what your triggers are, one very useful tool is headache diary. Frequent headache sufferers should start with a blank notebook and put a date at the top of each page. Each day, you should record the weather, everything you eat, any stressful events or anything else that seems significant to you as well as the time, strengths and duration of any headaches. Once you have recorded several headaches, look at the entries you made on those days. Are there item things in common? If there are, you may have identified on of your headache triggers. Try to avoid that trigger and see if that helps reduce your headache frequency.