2 Ways to turn off migraines:

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Today's post: Monday, 7-24-2006

Ways to turn off migraines:

Here are two ways to do it. And, one of them can work almost instantly in many cases !!

1. Get regular exercise.

2. Physically relieve excess stress.

Each one by itself has worked for many people. My strong suspicion is that doing both will work or improve things a lot for almost everyone who now has migraines.

1. Why do people who exercise regularly tend to not get migraines?

As we’ve covered, regular cardio or aerobic exercise in particular tends to both increase your ability to be stressed without reacting or over-reacting to it & to physically relieve stress that is excessive.

So, doing cardio or aerobic exercise several times a week each week tends to help do the second of these two things.

In addition, it tends strongly to keep your blood vessels healthy, strong, & flexible & able to respond to changes without distress.

And, it provides your brain & its cells or neurons with an optimum supply of oxygen.

My strong suspicion is that both of these benefits of exercise work directly to prevent or minimize migraines.

2. Physically unrelieved excess stress tends to produce over-tightened & “clenched” blood vessels that tendsto not wear off or relax normally.

So, when extra stress or something that affects your blood vessels in a way that causes them to expand quickly or to tighten even more, it’s small wonder that pain results.

I accidentally found out that people who take beta blockers to relieve high blood pressure often simply stop having migraines.

In later posts I’ll cover a way to get this result without drugs that has been proven to work.

And, that method can help people who have blood pressure too low to take beta blockers &, unlike beta blockers, it doesn’t keep you from strongly responding when that’s actually desirable.

Beta blockers work by relaxing your blood vessels & acting like a shock absorber & governor to mellow out & calm your heart rate.

So, if you are too tense & have unrelieved stress, it can help a lot. But it can also hold you back at times when you prefer it didn’t since the effect is basically “always on.”

But if you do have slightly high or higher blood pressure & have problems with migraines, consider asking your doctor about trying a low dose or a full dose of a beta blocker.

The low dose is less likely to produce side-effects & may be enough to get the job done for you, so try that first, unless your doctor recommends more.

(If your blood pressure is high enough, he or she may so recommend & prescribe a second kind of blood pressure reducing medicine also.)

Taking a beta blocker can be a fast way to get started & get fast relief for your migraines.

Then, you can begin to do the things that make the drug unnecessary but which take longer to work.

Or, if you hate drugs, be sure to exercise & work to relieve your stress in other ways.