How to Relieve a Migraine Quickly

Votre tête devient sensible. Vous ne vous sentez pas dans votre assiette.  You hope maybe, this time, it's nothing.

Thirty minutes later, that sensitive feeling has turned into a full-blown migraine attack. À présent, vous avez besoin de savoir de toute urgence quel est le moyen le plus rapide de soulager cette migraine ? You can alleviate migraine pain quickly with a combination of approaches, such as using ice packs, ginger, caffeine, frozen drinks, OTC pain relievers, prescription abortive migraine medication, and CEFALY's ACUTE program.

Learn more about these 7 tips for how to stop a migraine fast:

• Ice packs
• Ginger
• Caffeine
• Frozen drink
• OTC pain relievers
• Prescription abortive migraine medication
• CEFALY’s ACUTE program

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7 Ways to Stop a Migraine Fast

Veuillez noter que ce billet n'est pas destiné à servir d'avis médical. Every person with migraine is different, and you should talk to your healthcare provider about the best and fastest ways to manage migraine pain.

1. Ice packs or other cold therapy

A cold compress or ice pack provides reliable migraine pain relief for many people. Si vous placez d'habitude une poche froide sur votre front, essayez sur le cou pour voir si c'est plus efficace. One study found that applying a frozen neck wrap to the carotid arteries in the neck at the start of a migraine headache significantly reduced pain. Some people also find that heat therapy, whether applied to the head or elsewhere, can be helpful.

2. Ginger

Have you ever tried ginger for fast migraine relief? Ginger — whether brewed as tea, concentrated in a supplement, blended in a smoothie, or consumed another way — is a go-to for many people in the early stages of a migraine, as it can help with both pain and nausea. One randomized clinical trial found that ginger extract helped with pain reduction for ER migraine patients when combined with ketoprofen. But it’s not effective for everyone; many migraine patients say ginger doesn’t do much for them.

3. Caffeine

The link between caffeine and migraine is still being explored. Pour certaines personnes, la caféine est un déclencheur de migraines. Pour d'autres, elle soulage la douleur de la migraine. As the Harvard Health blog explains, “People prone to migraines may experience more headaches after coffee consumption (perhaps by effects on serotonin or brain electrical activity), but coffee itself, or the caffeine it contains, is not considered the actual cause of migraines.” Pour faire court : certaines personnes ne jurent que par la caféine pour soulager rapidement la douleur liée aux migraines, que ce soit avec un Coca-Cola froid ou un analgésique en vente libre contenant de la caféine.

4. A vanilla milkshake or other frozen drink

Some people, when they feel a migraine attack coming on, immediately hit up the nearest drive-thru or ice-cream shop for a vanilla milkshake. Le froid intense peut entraîner un certain soulagement de la migraine.

(Saviez-vous que la sensibilité au gel du cerveau — cette sensation désagréable que vous ressentez lorsque du liquide froid entre en contact avec le palais — est liée à la migraine ? One study found that women who had experienced one or more migraine attacks in the last year were twice as likely to experience a headache from ingesting ice-cold water, compared to women who had never had migraine.)

5. OTC pain relievers

“Combination analgesics containing aspirin, caffeine, and acetaminophen are an effective first-line abortive treatment for migraine,” states American Family Physician, which also rates ibuprofen safe and effective for acute migraine treatment. However, frequent use of certain pain medications — especially those combination painkillers — can trigger a medication overuse headache, also called a rebound headache.

To avoid medication overuse headache, the Mayo Clinic recommends using OTC painkillers on fewer than 14 days a month. Limit your use of triptans or combined pain relievers to no more than nine days a month.

6. Prescription abortive migraine medication

Triptans are often prescribed for migraine with moderate to severe pain intensity. Les Triptans (agonistes des récepteurs de la sérotonine) agissent directement sur les nerfs de la douleur et doivent être pris au début d'une crise. Ils apportent généralement un soulagement de la migraine dans les deux heures. Parmi les autres types de médicaments stoppant la migraine les antagonistes du CGRP, les ditans et les ergots.

7. CEFALY’s ACUTE program

CEFALY is an FDA-cleared, non-invasive medical device that offers clinically proven, drug-free migraine pain relief. In one major clinical study, 79% of acute migraine sufferers saw pain relief following one hour of migraine treatment with CEFALY.

CEFALY can be a good option for migraine relief if:

• You can’t tolerate the side effects of medication
• Medication doesn’t fully address your symptoms
• You want to add a non-drug migraine treatment to your toolkit
• Insurance doesn’t fully cover your medications
• You want a migraine treatment device you can use whenever you need it, instead of being limited by the need to refill a prescription

Best of all, CEFALY feels good! It works by sending gentle, precise electrical impulses to the trigeminal nerve, the primary pathway for headache pain. Start the 60-minute ACUTE program at the earliest sign of a migraine attack. Le programme de prévention de CEFALY peut être utilisé quotidiennement pour réduire la fréquence des crises de migraine.

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