Spotlight on Migraine - Episode 6 - The Sensitive Brain and Migraine Triggers

I have moving migraine. I have variables in my headaches. I have had many tests, MRI, CATscans, blood work, ER, after ER, after ER visits and many shots if visterol, and demerol, and anti nausea injections. Those do not help...in the long run. Pray to God. You are special, migraine headache sufferers, you are blessed by being cursed as you have a special ability to interpret, and discern "many" things. Just as I have, and am, and will continue to be until that day, the final day. God bless us all.

Half the time, when neurologists talk about migraine I don't connect with most of what they say, and I've had migraine 30 years. There is something they are not getting.

I'm writing from Germany and I suffer from bad migraine. Sorry my english is not so good. This channel is very very good, scientific information!! Thank you

Before I get a migraine I can feel it coming, I am really sensitive to strong smells, light and high pitch voices. If I am really stressed and tired and slept in a bad position, I will get it for sure. If am hungry for too long I will get it, if I have been sleeping all day I will get it, if am too sad, I will get it. I usually take panadol, rub my arms and legs in targeted places and go straight to bed. - -- If I cannot do that on time then I also cry out of pain and want to vomit as well. Things that help me besides that are laughter, exercise and hugs. The best thing after a migraine and post migraine, is when you wake up full of energy and perfectly fine like you havent been dying out of pain an hour ago. Is like your brain was switched off and on again.

Why do you have thumping music and zooming pictures at the start of your videos. I am a migraine sufferer with photo sensitivity and noise sensitivity. You don't instil confidence that you know about migraine disorderz when your titles can trigger my migraines, especially with a hypersensitive brain. Sorry but I can't even get past the first seconds without seering sharp pain & the start of a migraine. Please change your titles , just titles, no flashing and no thumping music. Thanks.

Changes in barometric pressure- particularly drops in pressure- are a common trigger. Sadly I can’t control the weather. 😞

I’ve been keeping a diary to discover some of my triggers. Salt, MSG, sweeteners, Red Wine, Strong artificial smells (e.g. vanilla air freshener), excessive sugar, squinting at the sun, hunger, dehydration, oversleeping (between 9 and 12+ hours, despite my habit to sleep through migraines), stress/ panic.

ive never been able to relate any triggers to when i get my migraines they are always pretty random, i usually always have a headache every day and most of the time what happens is that regular dull headache will rapidly progress into a migraine if i dont take medicine to stop it

I have suffered from chronic debilitating migraines since I was a child, literally had first migraine around seven years of age! Since I was young and then were 1-2 times per year and I had horrific vomiting my parents thought at first I just got a stomach virus. It was not until I reached 11-12 that they became super frequent and horrendous. In my teens my doctor tried medications but nothing worked. They were embarrassing as no one else I knew had them and I would lie about it. I am always light sensitive so with migraines I sometimes get visual disturbances of shooting stars, loss of peripheral vision, strobing effects. I am bedridden throughout them. As I went through menopause they became less frequent but changed in intensity and duration. Whereas I. Would always vomit when younger, this became almost non existent, or rare. But pain would hit a piercing high. Now over 60 they are again becoming more frequent. I did notice that when I get Botox in my face they seem to go away for a long period of time. I reached a point when I was young that I decided that this was just my cross to bear in life .

Watching after a migraine. Have these headaches since age 5. Almost 40. Less frequent, but just as severe. Nauseating, blinding and wanting of death when these migraines occur.

This is probably the most interesting piece I've encountered regarding migraine. I'd not heard of the sensitive brain, but this really resonated with me.

I've had migraines for a big part of my life. I'm a week away from being 19. After all my years of researching and reading about migraines this video was the most insightful! New subscriber!

I’ve obviously been on the edge for a few years.. I suffered a traumatic brain injury a few years ago and the headaches followed, migraine or two a year and lots of low grade ones in between. Recently I switched jobs to something that requires a lot more brain power, high stress etc. Now it’s been non stop, back to back full blown migraines for weeks. I absolutely love my new job! This helped understand migraines a bit better.. thanks for posting!

This doctor is describing exactly what it’s like for me!

Migraine getting worse during work that won't be finished anytime soon is super suffering.

people think im afraid of direct sunlight and heat because i dont want to get tanned (asian) but truth is its the worst trigger for my migraine 2nd is extremely loud music with bass as the bass drops I can also feel my pulse in my temples

I have to tell people around me that my migraine will make me temporarily forget how to speak. I will try to say: sorry I can't talk right now and end up saying something like "galeeble herschoot Maloof alakat" then feel like a complete idiot.

YES. I finally know whats going on with me. My trigger is stress. This ONE trigger will activate the rest. I will get sensitive to light, caffeine AND gluten, during periods of STRESS. I have been wondering why i get migranes (I refuse to take over the counter medicine for them and I havent been to the doctor for them because I havent been too good at self-care the past 10 years of my life) for years. I wanted to know WHY, now I do. THANK YOU. I will work on my stress levels to prevent my symptoms. They are so bad I end up laying down for hours unable to function. But recently they have gotten worse which has lead me to search online and after watching this video i decided to seek a specialist to get better. I cant keep having them daily. I need to work! But the sensitive brain idea ... it fits exactly how I feel.

Thank you for such a informative migraine information. You are so right, we do have a sensitive brain. I can get a migraine from airplane & train fuel. I even get a a migraine from the pressure of the air and if a thunder storm is approaching. I’m so glad, I came across your very knowledgeable, expertise and informative video presentation ❤️

When I was younger, I could sense a migraine coming on while watching tv, and I would force myself to stay watching, as there was not so easy to just stop and resume viewing as it is today, and I usually wanted to see the end of whatever I was watching... I would do this, even after I learned that I would most likely get a migraine attack after, but in the end, I had to teach myself to give up at the first point, because I would rarely be able to finish watching whatever it was I was watching anyway, and the longer I sat up watching tv, the stronger the migraine attack would be... It was better to just turn off the TV, and retreat to the bed sooner than later, and try to fall asleep before it got bad... But recently I got to try rizatriptan, which works wonders for me, and propanol, that I think helps, but not sure yet... (I have mostly hormonal migraines, and are overweight.)