Allergy season is here again, and more people are taking anti-allergy medications than ever before. In fact, the numbers keep growing, and sinus headaches can cause one’s head to pound. For chronic headache sufferers, this pounding can be a dreadful prelude to migraine or cluster headaches.
If you’ve never had a migraine or cluster headache, it’s probably very hard to understand how a simple headache can make it difficult to lift one’s head off the pillow, let alone eat or drive. The intense pain and sometimes nausea can make the normal daily activities of life impossible. Sometimes medicine decreases the pain, or shortens the attack. And sometimes, it doesn’t.
People who suffer from cluster headaches never know when another cluster of headaches will start. Worse, if they are in the middle of a cluster, they have no idea how long they will be free of pain before the next headache starts. While these headaches are not usually as intensely painful as migraine, the clusters may continue for several days or even weeks at a time. It never seems to stop.
Allergy season often does make headaches worse. The linings of the nose and sinuses swell, and feelings of fullness or pressure may cause frontal headache pain. This swelling, though, is called inflammation, and is typically believed to be a key component of migraine headache. Further, the tension caused by these sinus headaches can cause cluster headaches to occur.
How can you break free from the cycle? If you have tried many allergy medicines, you know that some work better than others. Additionally, there are many things you can do yourself to lessen the severity of an allergy attack. Taking the medicines prescribed by your doctor is important, and staying away (if possible) from the causes of your allergies is helpful as well. If you can’t stay away, though, one of the most important things you can do is to relax.
Relax! Relax? You’re in the middle of an allergy attack, and a migraine is coming any minute. How can you relax? But that is exactly the problem. The tension created by the physical response to your allergies, and to the expectation of a migraine, makes relaxation almost impossible.
It’s time to get some help. Many self-hypnosis programs can teach people to relax. And after only a few sessions, they experience relief from their headaches, and go on about their normal lives. There are powerful hypnosis and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques that can reduce or even eliminate pain altogether. And there are techniques that enable one to abort a migraine headache before it even gets started.
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