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Part-IV: Prevention of Migraine headaches

13. Ten Tips to Avoid Migraine Headaches

Medications can resolve your migraine attacks to a certain extent. Adopt certain

changes in your lifestyle to lower the severity and intensity of migraine attacks.

Ten tips to avoid migraine headaches:

1. Maintain a “migraine diary”. Record when and how your migraine

starts. Also, note down your diet, any stress problems, headache
medications, or any other intake and happening. You can thereby do away

with any migraine triggers. A trigger can have a relation to something
even forty-eight hours before a migraine attack. Such a diary helps your

physician to study your physiological behavior and more quickly arrive at
possible reasons for your migraine attack.

2. Provide good rest for your body. Aim to have a sound sleep for about

nine hours at night. At the same time, do not oversleep or indulge in long

sleeping hours during the daytime. Maintain a regular time schedule of
going to bed and waking up in the morning. Stick to the routine during
holidays and vacations too, as much as possible.

3. Develop a regular exercise routine. You could try simple aerobic

exercises like walking, swimming, cycling or other muscle relaxation

exercises. Make sure that you do not over-exert yourself and trigger a
headache.

4. Along with physical exercise, do simple mental exercises also.
Maintain your cool through relaxing techniques like meditation, yoga,

soothing music, reading a book, enjoying a hot bath or even gardening.

Set a specific time of each day for you to be alone. Think and focus on
yourself, your needs and your feelings. This recharges your energy and

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